PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is an act of copying published literary work of an individual and using the word, phrase, and paragraph as his own words. Academicians around the world strictly warn against the above-mentioned way of writing literature, and in recent past technology, i.e., software, has been developed and made available to check how an article, report, thesis, and dissertation were originally written by authors. The plagiarism deducting software will provide the total percentage of copied texts from which source. Therefore, academicians, particularly research supervisors and scholars, are trying to write contents on their own to get through plagiarism.

To avoid such problems, this university library has planned to organise an awareness program to write original research reports. The need-based short-term programs will be conducted to familiarise technical writing skills to avoid plagiarism. For further enquiries, contact the Deputy Librarian. 

PLAGIARISM CHECKING

Initially, INFLIBNET, a UGC inter-university center under the Shodh Shuddhi project, provided URKUND plagiarism detection software to all state universities. The Deputy Librarian of TNPESU took the initiative to enroll TNPESU in THE Shodh Shuddhi project as a state university. As a result of this effort, INFLIBNET included TNPESU in its list and created an account.

This development was communicated to the Deputy Librarian on 30th September 2019. The role of plagiarism coordinator was assigned to the Deputy Librarian on 10th October 2020. Subsequently, the Deputy Librarian began checking Ph.D. theses using the URKUND software and submitted similarity reports to the university.

Between 2020 and 2023, a total of 63 Ph.D. theses were checked for plagiarism using URKUND software. From September 2023 onward, INFLIBNET phased out URKUND and implemented DRILLBIT software. Since then, the university library has been using DRILLBIT for plagiarism checking. To date, 60 Ph.D. theses have been checked using DRILLBIT software.