What is plagiarism?
In the context of Learning Institutions, plagiarism is a form of cheating.
When does plagiarism occur?
In Open University Malaysia, plagiarism is committed when:
- Publishes, with himself/herself as the author, an abstract, article, scientiļ¬c or academic paper, or book which is wholly or partly written by some other person;
- Incorporates himself/herself or allows himself/herself to be incorporated as a co-author of an abstract, article, scientiļ¬c or academic paper, or book, when he/she has not at all made any contribution to the abstract, article, scientiļ¬c or academic paper or book;
- Forces another person to include his/her name in the list of co-researchers for a particular research project or in the list of co-authors for a publication when he/she has not made any contribution which may qualify him/her as a co- researcher or co-author;
- Extracts academic data which are the results of research undertaken by some other person, such as laboratory ļ¬ndings or ļ¬eld work ļ¬ndings or data obtained through library research, whether published or unpublished, and incorporate those data as part of his/her academic research without giving due acknowledgement to the actual source;
- Uses research data obtained through collaborative work with some other person, whether or not that other person is a staļ¬ member or a learner of the University, as part of another distinct personal academic research or for a publication in his/her own name as sole author, without obtaining the consent of his/her co- researchers prior to embarking on his/her personal research or prior to publishing the data;
- Transcribes the ideas or creations of others kept in whatever form, whether written, printed or available in electronic form, or in slide form, or in whatever form of teaching or research apparatus, or in any other form, and claims either directly or indirectly that the learner is the creator of that idea or creation;
- Translates the writing or creation of another person from one language to another whether wholly or partly, and subsequently presents the translation in whatever form or manner as the learnerās own writing or creation; or
- Extracts ideas from another personās writing or creation and makes certain modiļ¬cations without due reference to the original source and rearranges it in such a way that it appears as if the learner is the creator of those ideas.
