Awareness, Perception and Attitude Towards Plagiarism among Library and Information Science Professionals in Maharashtra: An Investigative Study
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2022-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
Awareness about plagiarism is essential for the evasion of intellectual mendacity, inculcation of
academic integrity and assurance of quality research. Maintaining high standards regarding
academic integrity is a major challenge for higher education and research organizations worldwide.
In India, University Grants Commission in collaboration with INFLIBNET Centre widely working
on plagiarism issues and in this movement, librarians played vital role as a support system for
avoiding as well as checking plagiarism in dissertations and doctoral thesis. The main purpose of
this study is to examine this cohort’s awareness of plagiarism among the Library and Information
Science Professionals in Maharashtra. For the collection of data quantitative approach, a crosssectional
survey method was used. A convenience sample of Aided college librarians affiliated to
University of Mumbai were selected for the present study.75Questionnaires were distributed among
the Aided College Librarians out of them 58 were received. Descriptive and inferential statistics
were used for data analyses. The findings revealed that while Librarians were aware of the concept
of plagiarism, ways of avoiding plagiarism and plagiarism detection tools as well as most of the
librarians have positive attitude towards avoiding plagiarism.
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13th International CALIBER-2022, BHU, Varanasi, UP, 17-19 November 2022
Keywords
Anti-plagiarism Software, Academic Integrity, Research Ethics, INFLIBNET