self-plagiarism

noun

Reuse of words, ideas, or artistic expression from material one had previously published or submitted, especially without acknowledgment of their earlier publication or submission.

Meanings

nounself-plagiarism (countable and uncountable, plural self-plagiarisms)

plural self-plagiarisms · alternative selfplagiarism

  1. countableuncountableReuse of words, ideas, or artistic expression from material one had previously published or submitted, especially without acknowledgment of their earlier publication or submission.

    I want to present the view that style plays a role in artworld conditions that allows for successful self-plagiarisms.

    1984, D Goldblatt, “Self-plagiarism”, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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    Gross vs. Seligman (decided in 194) seems to be the only case in U.S. copyright history in which the owner of a copyright won an infringement lawsuit against a self-plagiarist.

    1994, Pamela Samuelson, “Self-plagiarism or fair use”, in Communications of the ACM

    The purpose of this research study was to evaluate faculty perceptions regarding student self-plagiarism or recycling of student papers. Although there is a plethora of information on plagiarism and faculty who self-plagiarize in publications, there is very little research on how faculty members perceive students re-using all or part of a previously completed assignment in a second assignment.[…] Although faculty agreed students need to be educated on self-plagiarism, faculty assumed students had previously been educated on plagiarism as well as self-plagiarism; only 13 % ensured students understood this concept.

    2013 December 28, Colleen Halupa, Doris U. Bolliger, “Faculty Perceptions of Student Self Plagiarism: An Exploratory Multi-university Study”, in Journal of Academic Ethics, volume 11, number 4, pages 297–310

    Based on the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), self-plagiarism has been classified into four categories: (1) Text recycling: Text recycling refers to cloning of larger sections of one’s previously published text in a subsequent paper; (2) Redundant publication: This occurs when covert duplicate publication of one’s own work appears in two or more journals with the same data, results, and discussion, with or without editing; (3) Augmented publication: This is a new paper resulting from the addition of new data to previously published data; and (4) Segmented publication: Segmented publication, known also as salami-slicing, occurs when the results derived for one experiment are published as two or more papers, thereby preventing the readers from obtaining a wider understanding of the overall experiment in a single paper.

    2016, Ashokan Arumugam , BPT, MPT, PhD & Fahad K. Aldhafiri , PhD, “A researcher’s ethical dilemma: Is self-plagiarism a condemnable practice or not?”, in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, volume 32, number 6, published 3 June 2016, pages 427–429

    Synonyms: auto-plagiarism, autoplagiarism

Synonyms & antonyms

nounReuse of words, ideas, or artistic expression from material one had previously published or submitted, especially without acknowledgment of their earlier publication or submission.

Origin

Translations

Dutch zelfplagiaat
  • zelfplagiaatreuse of one's own words etc.
German Selbstplagiat
  • Selbstplagiatreuse of one's own words etc.
Italian autoplagio, riciclo
  • autoplagioreuse of one's own words etc.
  • ricicloreuse of one's own words etc.
Norwegian Bokmål selvplagiering, selvplagiat
  • selvplagieringreuse of one's own words etc.
  • selvplagiatreuse of one's own words etc.
Polish autoplagiat
  • autoplagiatreuse of one's own words etc.
Russian автоплагиат
  • автоплагиат (avtoplagiat)reuse of one's own words etc.
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