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PROHIBITION AGAINTS PLAGIARISM

Extract from Universiti 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 b) An attempt to make out or the act of making
invention of another person and claiming out, in such a way that one is original source or
that the idea, writing, data or invention is the creator of an idea, writing, data or invention
the result of one’s own findings or creation; which has actually been taken from some other
or 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research, whether published or unpublished, and incorporate those data as part of his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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