Jamia Millia Islamia

Plagiarism is the theft of someone’s ideas/language/research output or findings, and is a form of cheating which is morally and ethically unacceptable. Plagiarism covers all published and unpublished material, including books, book-chapters, research article, manuscripts, dissertations and thesis both in printed or electronic form. The Plagiarism policy shall also be applicable to public writings or website articles, intellectual property like artworks, visual art works including paintings and images, music, audios, videos, choreography and theatric performances. The University strongly discourages plagiarism at all levels. In order to prevent Page 1 of 6 plagiarism in mentioned area and to eliminate the scope of this menace, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University) has established a well-articulated policy. It defines the objectives, level of plagiarism and detection/handling system. The penalties at different levels of plagiarism and the mechanism of its impplementation has also been developed and presented herein following UGC gazette notification 2018.

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4.1 Functions and Powers of DAIP/CAIP (a) The DAIP/CAIP shall follow the principles of natural justice while deciding the allegation of plagiarism against the student/faculty/researcher/staff. (b) The DAIP/CAIP shall have the power to assess the level of plagiarism and recommend penalty(ies) accordingly. Page 3 of 6 (c) The DAIP/CAIP after investigation shall submit its report with the recommendation of penalties to be imposed to the UAIP within a period of 45 days from the date of receipt of complaint/initiation of proceedings.

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(ii) The UAIP shall also investigate cases of plagiarism as per the provisions mentioned in these regulations. (iii) The UAIP shall follow the principles of natural justice while deciding about the allegation of plagiarism against the student, faculty, researcher and staff of JMI. (iv) The UAIP shall have the power to review the recommendations of DAIP/CAIP including penalties with due justification. (v) The UAIP shall send the report to the competent authority after investigation and the recommendation on penalties to be imposed by the Vice Chancellor within a period of 45 days from the date of receipt of recommendation of DAIP/CAIP/ complaint / initiation of the proceedings. (vi) The UAIP shall provide a copy of the report to the person(s) against whom inquiry report is submitted. 6. PENALTIES Penalties in the cases of plagiarism as mentioned in section 1.0 of this policy shall be imposed among student, faculty, researcher and staff of the JMI only after academic misconduct on the part of the individual has been established without doubt, when all avenues of appeal have been exhausted and the individual in question has been provided enough opportunity to defend himself or herself in a fair and transparent manner.

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Library provides similarity detection services to faculty and research scholars of the University, using both Original and Turnitin softwares. Individual faculty members have also been provided user ID passwords for similarity detection. Library also organises awareness programmes from time to time for avoiding plagiarism.

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Conditions & exceptions

Repeated offence uses a higher level; already-awarded degree/credit may be put in abeyance on UAIP recommendation and VC approval.

6.1 Penalties in case of Plagiarism in Submission of Thesis and Dissertations University Academic Integrity Panel (UAIP) shall recommend penalty considering the severity of the Plagiarism. (i) Level 0: Similarities upto 10% - Minor Similarities, no penalty. Page 4 of 6 (ii) Level 1: Similarities above 10% to 40% - Such student shall be asked to submit a revised script within a stipulated time period not exceeding 6 months. (iii) Level 2: Similarities above 40% to 60% - Such student shall be debarred from submitting a revised script for a period of one year. (iv) Level 3: Similarities above 60% - Registration of such students for that programme shall be cancelled. Note 1: Penalty on repeated plagiarism- Such student shall be punished for the plagiarism of one level higher than the previous level committed by him/her. In case where plagiarism of highest level is committed then the punishment for the same shall be operative. Note 2: Penalty in case where the degree/credit has already been obtained - If plagiarism is proved on a date later than the date of award of degree or credit, as the case may be, then his/her degree or credit shall be put in abeyance for a period recommended by the UAIP and approved by the Vice Chancellor.

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(a) Every student of Masters/M.Phil/PhD while submitting dissertation, thesis, or any other such documents to the JMI shall submit an undertaking indicating Page 2 of 6 that the document has been prepared by him or her and that the document is his/her original work and free of any plagiarism. (b) The undertaking shall include the fact that the document has been duly checked through a Plagiarism detection tool approved by the JMI as described in M.Phil/PhD Ordinance 9 (IX) Para 12 (k) and Annexure XI – A to XI – D. 2.3 Similarity Checks for Exclusion from Plagiarism The similarity checks for plagiarism shall exclude the following: (i) All quoted work reproduced with all necessary permission and/or attribution. (ii) All references, bibliography, table of content, preface and acknowledgements. (iii) All generic terms, laws, standard symbols and standard equations. (iv) In case of Dissertation/PhD Thesis, all published papers (articles) drawn from the Dissertation/Thesis by the scholar Note: The research work carried out by the student, faculty, researcher and staff shall be based on original ideas, which shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis, observations, results, conclusions and recommendations only and shall not have any similarities. It shall exclude common knowledge or coincidental terms, up to fourteen (14) consecutive words. 3. LEVELS OF PLAGIARISM Plagiarism would be quantified into following levels in ascending order of severity for the purpose of its definition: (i) Level 0: Similarities upto 10% - Minor similarities, no penalty (ii) Level 1: Similarities above 10% to 40% (iii)Level 2: Similarities above 40% to 60% (iv)Level 3: Similarities above 60%

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