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                            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                          library research, whether published or unpublished, and incorporate those data as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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