Preventing the Plagiarism in digital age with Special Reference to Indian Universities Singh B. P.* Faculty Librarian Gr-1, Central Library Dayalabagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra *Corresponding Author, B.P. Singh, bp.sing76@gmail.com
Online published on 16 May, 2017. Abstract This article presents an analytical perspective about the plagiarism related issues in digital age with special reference to Indian Universities. Presently, India is third world's largest country for higher education system where more than 677 universities and 35829 collages are available for providing higher education. Plagiarism is an issue of research misconduct in academic and research community. In digital age plagiarism is copying words/text from any kind of information sources (Internet, books, magazines, journals, project reports, publications, white papers etc.) without proper citation. Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else's work and attempting to pass it off as your own. In ICT era plagiarism detection is very easy job for academicians, researchers and publishers. To prevent the plagiarism in Indian universities, INFLIBNET Centre on behalf of UGC, MHRD, and Govt. of India provided two anti-plagiarism software's “iThenticate ” and “Turnitin ” under the Shodhganga project to 110 universities for the one year in 2014. Currently, INFLIBNET Centre provided “Urkund ” anti-plagiarism software to selected 135 Indian universities for the year 2015–16. Today, many more plagiarism detection software's (open source and proprietary) are available for easily use by academic institutions/universities. This paper also suggests the sustaining skills to avoid plagiarism or reduce the percentage of plagiarism in their submission research work to respective university/institution. Top Key Terms Higher Education, Plagiarism, Plagiarism Detection Tools, Shodhganga, Inflibnet. Top |