Re-publishing Own Academic Work Not Allowed; UGC Calls It Self-Plagiarism

New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday said that re-publishing of own work will now be classified as self-plagiarism and will affect selection and promotions in colleges and universities.

Warning the academic community against such practice, the UGC notification said, “Reproduction, in part or whole, of one’s own previously published work without adequate citation and proper acknowledgment and claiming the most recent work as new and original for any academic advantage amounts to ‘text-recycling’ (also known as ‘self-plagiarism’) and is not acceptable.”

The UGC will soon release parameters to check for instances of self-plagiarism or recycling of text. But it has been made clear by the commission that no one will be allowed to even reuse used data, re-publish the project by dividing the previously published study into sections, and paraphrase one’s own previously published work without citing the original work.

Amid the rising cases of plagiarism across Indian institutes, the UGC had included research ethics and plagiarism as part of the curriculum in the colleges.