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Recycling your thesis text – is it self plagiarism? – Patter (Pat Thomson | September 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on September 24, 2021
Keywords: Journal, Publication ethics, Research integrity, Research results

The Linked Original Item was Posted On September 13, 2021

A wordcloud around the term "PLAGIARISM"

The term self-plagiarism is usually associated with re-using your own work, recycling slabs of material already published, cutting and pasting from one text to another, producing something which duplicates something that has already appeared elsewhere.

A thoughtful discussion that will be especially helpful to early career researchers and those planning professional development activities/material for ECRs.  Another useful addition to your institution’s online Resource Library.  We have included links to eight related items.  Our thanks to UofG for posting to Twitter

Self-plagiarism is not the same as stealing someone else’s work and passing it off as your own, that’s plagiarism. Nor is it the same as violating copyright – using other people’s text without permission, or even re-using your own work when the copyright has been signed over to someone else. We all know these practices are wrong, so if self plagiarism is like these, it must be too.

The idea of self-plagiarism is scary. We all know that plagiarists get punished if they are found out. They can be sacked, their work pulped or retracted. And universities and publishers are increasingly on the lookout for plagiarism, using automatic software to detect it. So the notion of plagiarising your own work carries with it the spectre of the surveillance and punishment.

recycling your thesis text – is it self plagiarism?
The term self-plagiarism is usually associated with re-using your own work, recycling slabs of material already published, cutting and pasting from one text to another, producing something which du…

Related Reading

When is ‘self-plagiarism’ OK? New guidelines offer researchers rules for recycling text – Science (Cathleen O’Grady | June 2021)

Text Recycling Research Project

Text Recycling Research Project: update March 2021 – COPE (March 2021)

Standardizing terminology for text recycling in research writing (Papers: Cary Moskovitz | February 2021)

(India) ‘Self-Plagiarism, Text Recycling Not Acceptable’: UGC – NDTV (Anisha Kumari | April 2020)

Text recycling: acceptable or misconduct? (Papers: Stephanie Harriman and Jigisha Patel | 2014)

What types of researchers are most likely to recycle text? The answers might surprise you – Retraction Watch (Alison McCook | October 2017)

How much text recycling is okay? – Retraction Watch (Alison McCook | July 2017)

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