Plagiarism

Some Concerns & Issues

Abstract

“Plagiarism” it is an act of presenting other author’s work and then proving it as one’s own so as to get literary and career advance benefits from it. Such a practice is seen increasing now-a-days and people especially ‘white-collars’ are doing it with their choice and without any fear. The recent upsurge of cases of plagiarism has broken all the records in the world. The increasing trend has made professionals, administrators, teachers and scholars in a discombobulating manner. The information explosion, the emergence of world wide web, the availability of databases and online free resources have offered trouble-free chances for plagiarists and other literary thieves to copy and reproduce the literature in their own way. The present situation of plagiarism needs strict and rigid rules, strategies and resources like anti-plagiarism tools and software so that the increasing trend can be minimized. In spite of the fact that most of the universities have adopted anti-plagiarism tools and the results are in good favour but the need is to make every single author aware about the concept of plagiarism and citation styles, so that they will be more careful while making notes. In this paper the efforts have been made to put forward the concept of plagiarism, different types of plagiarism, Plagiarism detection software and possible strategies.