IMPLEMENTING AND FOLLOWING TO PRINCIPLES OF ACADEMIC HONESTY AT UNIVERSITY

O.O. Bohomolets National medical university joins to the practice for support of academic honesty and implements the measures on struggle against academic plagiarism.
The academic honesty means that during the process of study and research work the students, teachers and scientists shall apply first of all the principles of honest labor and study that is an integral part of academic culture and prerequisite for successful development of society.
According to the words by head at scientific research unit of NMU Andrii Dinets, the university community has been working on improvement of level in academic culture, prevention from plagiarism, implementation of high standards for educational and research activity. The university developed and implemented the Provision about academic honesty; there is the Ethic commission that has the anti-plagiarism division which task is to prevent and to react to the facts of academic dishonesty. As well, the university performs the events for connection to anti-plagiarism program, designed to check the uniqueness if academic textual documents using the automatic search for similarities. Such anti-plagiarism software does not require installing any additional programs; only a computer and internet are needed for access. The program can detect hidden symbols in the text, replacement of Cyrillic with Latin symbols. The comparison of academic text is carried out both with internet resources and bases of other universities, as well as internal base of NMU. The internal base of NMU – “Repository of academic texts” (closed for free access database) was launched in March, 2016 and contains the text files of dissertations by scientists at NMU.
The scientific research work all over the world is based only on honesty that is there are scientific ethical rules which shall be followed.
“The responsibility of the scientist, who was exposed in academic dishonesty (plagiarism, double publication, falsification of results, etc.) is mainly in moral ethical plain and rarely causes to legal actions. However, the reputation damages of scientist, who is exposed in academic dishonesty, often and often may lead to the end of academic career, as well as significantly damages the reputation of the establishment, where such scientist works. Their scientific product, in particular, publications, will not seriously be perceived by scientific community. For example, if the scientific article in peer-reviewed journal, being indexed in PubMed, contains the false data or plagiarism, so it is not removed, there is the label “Retracted” and the corresponding record in the form of stamp is put to this article in electronic archive of journal, where it was published”, – tells Andrii Dinets.

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