Rector’s Directive No. 13/2020 ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** • Title: Plagiarism Assessment at Charles University •To implement: Code of Ethics and Code of Procedure for the Granting of Associate Professorship and Full • Lead office: Rector’s Office •Date of effect: 6 April 2020 ****************************************************************************************** * Plagiarism Assessment at Charles University ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Article 1 Introductory Provisions *========================================================================================= 1.This Directive regulates certain concepts and procedures related to the assessment and d plagiarism at Charles University (“the University”) in term papers, bachelor, diploma, r dissertation theses, dissertations to qualify for associate professorship, and other the within the framework of other creative activities by students and employees of the Unive 2.The University rejects plagiarism in all its forms and avows the principles of academic provided in its Code of Ethics as well as in internationally accepted documents. *========================================================================================= * Article 2 Fundamental Principles *========================================================================================= 1.The members of the academic community and other employees of the University must follow the principles of reliability, honesty, respect, and accountability. 2.The members of the academic community and other employees of the University must above a fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism. *========================================================================================= * Article 3 Plagiarism *========================================================================================= 1.Plagiarism means presenting the outcomes of other people’s work as one’s own. 2.Plagiarism may take in particular the following forms: a.Presenting ideas, proposals, invention, manuals, or reasoning procedures of another pe own, using them without proper and accurate citation; b.Copying a part of text, tables, charts etc. without proper and accurate citation; c.Rephrasing and using other people’s outputs of work (including translation from a fore from internet sources) without proper and accurate citation; d.Paraphrasing a published work (in any form) without proper and accurate citation of th source; e.Self-plagiarism, i.e., re-using and presenting again the outputs of one’s own work wit substantial new outcomes of one’s own work without distinct and explicit citation (not f.Academic ghostwriting, i.e., creating a thesis upon request where the real author of t stated and the author stated is not the real author of the text; g.Failure to comply with licences, copyright, and copyleft protecting publications. 3.The following in particular does not constitute plagiarism: a.Quotation, i.e., a literal copying of a part of another author’s work, providing that properly identified and duly cites the original sources; b.Paraphrasing, i.e., expressing the content of a work using other means, e.g., in text words, providing that due reference to the original source is given; c.Compilation, i.e., a work created by compiling the ideas of several other original wor that due reference to the original source is given (e.g., certain types of textbooks a works with the objective of providing the user with an overview of the research to dat d.Generally known facts including subject-area specific facts which may be found in a la available sources and which are known to a large group of people e.g., geographical or data, generally known information or elementary mathematical definitions; e.Presenting the results of other authors in review works with proper citation of the or f.Proofreading of works carried out by another person, providing that this fact is state 4.The following in particular does not constitute self-plagiarism: a.A practically identical description of method, experiment, interpretation conception, publications presenting new outputs obtained using the given previously used and descr (including a citation of the work providing a detailed original description and commen b.A summary of one’s own outputs in subsequent publications with substantially new outpu reinterpretation with proper citation; c.A multiple (or multi-layer) but substantially different publication of outputs designe their dissemination in the research community, e.g., a conference paper and a letter t full-scale publication including all details as required in the given research area; d.Working papers, preprints, and works published in repositories of “pre-print versions” which are later published as standard research papers; e.Re-published works e.g., in a collection of treatises of an author, if it specifies wh previously published; f.Translation of one’s own work from one language into another, providing that this fact stated in the later work; g.Publishing of identical research outputs in several journals (or using different chann language versions, providing that this fact is explicitly stated in the later publicat *========================================================================================= * Article 4 Plagiarism Assessment *========================================================================================= 1.The primary role in assessment of plagiarism is played by the bodies and commissions est that purpose at the University and the faculties and by the members of academic staff, m and experts from among the non-academic staff of the University. 2.Plagiarism may be assessed using technical means, such as programmes checking similarity nevertheless the results of such checks must always be critically evaluated by a respons the University. 3.Plagiarism assessment must take into consideration the context of such conduct of a memb staff or other employee of the University, in particular the following aspects: a.Whether it is a one-off wrongdoing or systematic, methodical, or repeated conduct; b.The level of knowledge and experience of the wrongdoer (e.g., the year of study and th of a student, seniority of a member of academic or research staff); c.Whether the conduct was intentional; d.The specific aspects of the given subject-area e.g., specific conventions for citation 4.Whether a work was plagiarised or not may be assessed in particular: a.Within the framework of assessment of study of a subject e.g., in assessment of term p b.Within the framework of writing reviews and reports on final theses; c.Within the framework of procedure for the granting of associate professorship; d.By the relevant University or faculty bodies (e.g., the ethics commissions); e.In disciplinary proceedings under the Disciplinary Code of the University; f.In a procedure to declare the passing of a state examination or a part thereof or defe dissertation thesis invalid; g.In a procedure to declare the granting of associate professorship invalid. *========================================================================================= * Article 5 Duties of Faculties and Other Units *========================================================================================= 1.Each faculty or higher education institute determines at least one designated person for plagiarism and notifies the Rector of the University. 2.Faculties take appropriate preventive measures to prevent plagiarism. *========================================================================================= * Article 6 Final Provision *========================================================================================= This Directive becomes effective on 6 April 2020. Prof. MUDr. Tomáš Zima, DrSc., MBA Rector For example, The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, European Charter for Res E.g., Turnitin and Theses systems. E.g., the measures recommended in the outcome of Charles University Research Ethics Commis