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Byline: Tracey Caldwell
beat the cheat
The pace of research has accelerated, fuelled by the ready availability of material in electronic format. But there is a downside, with a minority of students and researchers passing off others' work as their own.
Plagiarism ranges from cheating at undergraduate level to high-profile fraud in the research world. Publishers are taking steps to address the problem, with plagiarism detection software complementing the traditional editorial process, and are keen to cite this as part of the added value they offer. But is plagiarism a real problem?
Ian Russell, CEO of the Association of Learned and ...