Plagiarism ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************************** * What is plagiarism? ****************************************************************************************** • Adoption of other people's ideas as one’s own, improper imitation of artistic, literary, work; • Activity in which a person wrongfully pretends to be the author of a work or idea; • Intentional or unintentional violation of citation rules (non-citation, incorrect citati • The ČSN ISO 5127–2003 standard defines plagiarism as “the presentation of the intellectu another author, borrowed or imitated in whole or in part, as one’s own.” ****************************************************************************************** * How to prevent plagiarism? ****************************************************************************************** By correctly adopting the ideas through • Literal citation of the text in quotation marks with added bibliographic data; • Combination of citation and paraphrase with added bibliographic data; • Paraphrase of the original text without quotation marks with added bibliographic data. ****************************************************************************************** * Three basic rules: ****************************************************************************************** 1.Distinguish assumed ideas from one's own. 2.Refer to the original source. 3.Mark the original source so that it can be traced. ****************************************************************************************** * Plagiarism and legislation ****************************************************************************************** Copyright Act, with its full title Act No. 121/2000 coll., on Copyright, on Rights Related on Amendments to Certain Acts (Czechia, 2000) does not directly define the term plagiarism the rights of authors to their works as well as the conditions of use of copyright and the such use [Infogram, c2009]. The Act on Higher Education Institutions, with its full title Act No. 111/1998 coll., On H Institutions and on Amendments and Supplementations to Certain Acts, does not define the c plagiarism, but allows a higher education institution to define a disciplinary offense wit regulations under § 64 and it sets sanctions for this offense under § 65. Pursuant to § 64, a disciplinary offense is a culpable breach of obligations stipulated by regulations or internal regulations of a university and its units, such as plagiarism. The be punished for such a disciplinary offense: by reprimand; conditional expulsion from stud expulsion from studies [Czechia, 1998]. Universities regulate the issue of plagiarism in connection with the Act on Higher Educati by their internal regulations. Sanctions for disciplinary offenses are usually regulated b disciplinary rules of the faculty or university. At FSV UK, the issue of plagiarism is addressed by the Dean's Provision: Quotations and Ac the Sources: Measures Against Plagiarism. [ URL "https://fsv.cuni.cz/en/deans-provision-no ****************************************************************************************** * Anti-plagiarism systems ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Theses.cz *========================================================================================= Theses.cz [ URL "https://theses.cz/?lang=en"] is used to detect plagiarism in final and gr more than 50 universities and higher vocational schools in the Czech Republic and Slovakia Among them are public, private and state schools. At the same time it is a register of wor information about the work can be publicly searchable. The school itself decides to whom i and full texts of works available: to anyone on the Internet, to students or school staff, *========================================================================================= * Turnitin *========================================================================================= The application for electronic submission and evaluation of the content of seminar and fin used at the world's leading universities to provide feedback to students, training in acad and prevention of plagiarism. The Turnitin [ URL "https://library.cuni.cz/services/turniti makes it very easy to compare the content of academic theses with a large database of docu in addition to freely available websites - also licensed resources and repositories of fin Used at FSV UK.