![]() ![]() Self-plagiarismĪ new aspect of this controversy, also receiving press coverage, is being called ‘self-plagiarism’. ![]() A suggestion could be that the first author does it and gives the outcome of the scan to the senior author before the paper is submitted. Who should do the check? None of our busy senior staff are looking for an extra layer of bureaucracy. Professors, students, teachers and everyone in between. Everyone can use it to check manuscripts (or reports) before they are submitted. ![]() A plagiarism scanner called TurnitIn is now available on Blackboard. Luckily the scientific advisory committee (VWC) of the LUMC has been thinking about this too. Yet what would have been simpler than to pass those very same manuscripts through one of the plagiarism scanning programs before it was submitted? Our undergraduate students do it, their teachers check as well, yet often we submit our most precious products, our papers, which may be years of work, without a check? Clearly new guidelines that indicate how much sentence re-use is acceptable are being made right now Since then, we have all seen on the front pages of major national newspapers what the consequences of plagiarism can be: distrust of science and the integrity of scientists, senior researchers discredited, young careers blighted before they really start. It struck me then: how come we, as researchers, are so trusting of our co-authors and colleagues that we don’t check before we publish? What if one of them was in a terrible hurry and did a quick ‘copy-and-paste’ from one of their own previous publications? Would we know? What risks do we take when we are co-authors on papers? Or most particularly, what is our risk as corresponding author? Careers blighted #Storm in a teacup summary software#All of them had access to software that checked whether any text in their report was copied from papers published by others. Since they all wanted to be sure they were ‘safe’ – and quite independent of whether they trusted their fellow students or not - none of them was prepared to take any risk. No discussion of who was actually responsible, it was a group responsibility. She said that if the report was caught with plagiarism in it, all five of them would automatically hang and get one as a mark. When it was done she said, “We’ll just put it through a plagiarism check, then send it in.” I asked her why. When my daughter was in her third year at Veterinary school, she had to write a project report with four other students. Why do we trust our co-authors and colleagues so that we don't check before we publish, wonders Christine Mummery. Plagiarism: problem of our times or storm in a teacup? 30 January 2014 ![]()
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