In a notice now available on UGC website, the Commission says that reproduction of one’s own previously published work without citation is not acceptable.
New Delhi: In a bid to check self-plagiarism in the academia, University Grants Commission (UGC) has released guidelines and will be issuing parameters to evaluate instances of text recycling/self-plagiarism soon.
Hopefully, the new guideline for India will recognise where in a work the recycled text appears. We have included links to 10 related items.
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“Reproduction, in part or whole, of one’s own previously published work without adequate citation and proper acknowledgement and claiming the most recent work as new and original for any academic advantage amounts to ‘text-recycling’ (also known as ‘self-plagiarism’) and is not acceptable,” reads the UGC notice.
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