Plagiarism and Fair Use of Copyrighted Work: Awareness Survey among Doctoral Students of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India

Authors

  • Bhanu Partap Assistant Librarian, Nehru Library, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125 004, India
  • Rajinder Kumar Assistant Librarian, Nehru Library, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125 004, India
  • Balwan Singh University Librarian, Nehru Library, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125 004, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Information society, plagiarism, copyright, fare use, awareness, agricultural university

Abstract

Plagiarism is polluting the academic and research environment globally. The digitization of contents or  every type of information available and accessible through Internet is the main cause for plagiarism.  Even some famous faces are facing the allegations of plagiarism worldwide. In this paper, it is tried to  explore the awareness about the plagiarism, copyright and fare use among the doctoral research students  of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCS HAU), Hisar. To examine the  awareness and views about the plagiarism among the doctoral research students, a survey is conducted  with the help of structured questionnaire in the month of November 2018, which revealed some  interesting facts. Results revealed that 53.43% of the respondents were fully aware about the plagiarism,  however, lack of good writing skills (71.23%) and language problem (64.38%) were the two major reasons  for doing plagiarism. 

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Published

2019-05-12

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 1 (2019): Library Progress (International) (Jan-Jun) 2019

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Plagiarism and Fair Use of Copyrighted Work: Awareness Survey among Doctoral Students of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India . (2019). Library Progress (International), 39(1), 94–101. https://doi.org/10.48165/