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Prohibition Against 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

(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
of another person and claiming that the idea, such a way that one is original source or the creator of
writing, data or invention is the result of one’s own an idea, writing, data or invention which has actually
findings or creation; or been taken from some other resources

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

a) publishes, with himself as the author, an ab- e) uses research data obtained through collaborative
stract, article, scientific or academic paper or work with some other person, whether or not that other
book which is wholly or partly written by some person is a staff member or a student of the University,
other person; 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;
b) incorporates himself or allows himself to be in-
corporated 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 f) transcribes the ideas of creations of others kept in
the abstract, article, paper, or book; 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
c) forces another person to include his name in the list creator of that idea or creation;
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;

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 crea-
tion; or
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 ob-
tained through library research, whether published
or unpublished, and incorporate those data as part h) extracts ideas from another person’s writing or crea-
of his academic research tion and makes certain modification due reference to
the original source and rearranges them in such a
Without Giving due acknowledgement way that it appears as if he is the creator of those
to the actual Source; ideas.