Dear Mr Raghavendra, This is very pertinent question asked by you. Same question was asked by a subject expert in my review-promotion interview five years back. I answered with my experience 10% referenced contents should be fair enough and this should not be treated as plagiarized content. Chairman of interview board agreed with me. However I also wanted to verify with any policy or guidelines on plagiarized contents percentage but could not get. Whenever we write any research paper and do plagiarism check, we do not get 0% result, There have also been previous cases and litigation of plagiarism and few writers and researchers have faced penalty and jail term also. This means that inquiry authority may have some basis or policy or guidelines. You are heading an organization dealing in anti-plagiarism solution. You may be the best person to clarify these doubts. Looking forward for appropriate answer, with regards P K Upadhyay NIC Delhi ----- Original Message ----- From: raghupawar@gmail.com To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 4:20:20 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Original content clarification Respected Professional Friends. Pls let me know, Is there any Guidelines / Policies / Standards / Norms on the following intellectual output. What should be the original content percentage in the following documents. 1. Dissertation 2. Thesis 3. Research paper 4. Business report 5. Project work 6. Any other textual documents produced in Academic environment Thank you, Raghavendra R Head of BD, DrillBit SoftTech India Pvt. Ltd. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Disclaimer: This e-mail and its attachments may contain official Indian Government information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. The responsibility lies with the recipient to check this email and any attachment for the presence of viruses.