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(ii) an act or an attempt to project in any form whatsoever, that he is the
original source or creator of any idea, writing, data or creation that in
actual fact was taken from a number of other different sources.

(c) without prejudice to subregulation (b), a candidate shall be deemed to have
plagiarised when −

(i) he publishes, as the sole author, an abstract, article, scientific or
academic paper, or book which is wholly or partly written by other
persons.;

(ii) he joins or allows himself to be joined as co-author of an abstract,
article, scientific or academic paper, or book, where he does not make
any contribution to the writing of the abstract, article, scientific or
academic paper, or book;

(iii) forces another person to include his name in a list of publication for a
specific research project or in a list of joint publication where he does not
make any contribution which would qualify him to be a joint researcher
or author;

(iv) extracts academic data which is the result of research conducted by
other persons, such as laboratory findings or field work, or data obtained
through library research, whether published or unpublished, and
combines the said data as part of his academic research without proper
acknowledgement of the source;

(v) Uses research data obtained through the joint effort with other persons,
whether or not such persons are staff members or students of the
University as part of another academic research, or for publication in his
own name as the sole author, without obtaining the permission of his co-
researchers before commencing his own personal research or
publishing the data;

(vi) Copies the idea or creation of another person which is kept in any form,
whether written, printed or electronic, or in the form of slides or in any
form whatsoever for instruction, or research equipment or any other form
and claim directly or indirectly that he is the creator of the idea or the
creation.

(vii) Translates the writing or creation of another person from one language
to another, wholly or in part, and subsequently presenting the translation
in any form or manner as its writer or as his own creation;

(viii) Extracts idea from a writing or creation of another person and modifies
without reference to the original source and re-arranges the idea as
though he is the creator of the ideas.

(7) A candidate found to have plagiarised his dissertation or research report may be subject to
action under the University of Malaya (Discipline of Students) Rules 1999.

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