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PROHIBITION AGAINTS PLAGIARISM

Extract from University of Malaya (Discipline of Students) Rules 1999

(1) A student shall not plagiarize any idea/writing, data or invention belonging to another person.

(2) For the purposes of this rule, plagiarism includes:

a) The act of taking an idea, writing, data or invention b) An attempt to make out or the act of making out, in such
of another person and claiming that the idea, writing, a way that one is original source or the creator of an idea,
data or invention is the result of one’s own findings writing, data or invention which has actually been taken
or creation; or from some other resources

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-rules (2) a student plagiarizes when he:

a) Publishes, with himself as the author, an abstract, article, scientific or academic paper or book which is
wholly or partly written by some other person;

b) Incorporates himself or allows himself to be incorporated as a co-author of an abstract, article, scientific
or academic paper, or book, when he has not at all made any written contribution to the abstract, article, paper,
or book;
c) Forces another person to include his name in the list of co-researchers for a particular research project or
in the list of co-authors for a publication when he has not made any contribution which may qualify him as a co-
researcher or co-author;

d) Extracts academic data which are the results of research undertaken by some other person, such as
laboratory finding or field work findings or data obtained through library research, whether published or
unpublished, and incorporate those data as part of his academic research without giving due acknowledgement
to the actual source;
e) Uses research data obtained through collaborative work with some other person, whether or not that other
person is a staff member or a student of the University, as part of another distinct personal academic, research of
his, or for a publication in his own name as sole author without obtaining the consent of his personal research or
prior to publishing the data;

f) Transcribes the ideas of 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 whether directly or indirectly that he is the creator of that idea or creation;

g) Translates the writing or creation of another person from one language to another whether or not wholly
or partly, and subsequently presents the translation in whatever form or manner as his own writing or creation;
or

h) Extracts ideas from another person’s writing or creation and makes certain modification due reference to
the originals source and rearranges the min such a way that it appears as if he is the creator of those ideas.

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