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IL and Information Ethics: How to Avoid Plagiarism in Scientific Papers?

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Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century (ECIL 2014)

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One of the most common misconducts in science is plagiarism. It has negative consequences for authors, editors and scholarly journals, causing loss of credibility, reputation, readers and finances. Academic ethics can be assured by proper education, good codes of ethics and detailed instructions to authors of scientific papers. This paper analyses contents of author’s guidelines in Croatian journals in the field of social sciences. The analysis tries to ascertain whether the journals mention and/or explain ethical issues in their instructions to authors. The paper also analyses content of codes of ethics of Croatian universities, with the accent on plagiarism. A conclusion is made about the use of proper protection mechanisms in Croatian academic community when it comes to misconducts in science, especially plagiarism. Recommendations for universities and publishers on what to include in their codes of ethics and instructions to authors are given.

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  1. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Ivana Hebrang Grgić

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  4. University of California Los Angeles, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  5. University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK

    Ralph Catts

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Hebrang Grgić, I. (2014). IL and Information Ethics: How to Avoid Plagiarism in Scientific Papers?. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. ECIL 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_23

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