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◄Faculty of Economics and Administration►

PROHIBITION AGAINST PLAGIARISM

(In accordance with Section 6 of Prohibition Against Plagiarism, Part II, General Discipline,
Universities and University College Act, 1971 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 of another person and claiming
that the idea, writing, data or invention is the result of one’s own findings or
creation; or

(b) an attempt to make out or the act of making out, in such a way, that one is the
original source or the creator of an idea, writing, data or invention which has
actually been taken from some other source.

3. Without prejudice to the generality of subrule (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 persons;

(b) incorporates himself and 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, scientific or academic 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 findings 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library research, whether published or unpublished, and incorporate those data as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 of 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 co-
researchers prior to embarking on his personal research or prior to publishing the
data;

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