INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore, 560 059 COLLOQUIUM - 4 (2015 – 2017) "PLAGIARISM: A STUDY" ABSTRACT Plagiarism has become a disease and has been on the rise due to many factors. One of the prominent factor is the availability of scientific information on Internet. There are no common acceptance on the concept of plagiarism. There are varied aspect of plagiarism which are still vague in some aspect. The time pressure and the demand to keep up with producing noteworthy scientific information as well as the availability of colossal amount of literature is resulting in academic dishonesty, rampant publication and demeaning scholarship. While academic community is still coping up with what to consider as plagiarism and where to draw the line, it is essential to educate and spread awareness about plagiarism in order to salvage ethical scholarship. In this colloquium we shall discuss the notion of plagiarism in scholarship, the various facets of plagiarism, legalities concerning plagiarism, some cases, the tools and techniques for detecting plagiarism, the need of educating which calls for librarians' role, discuss issues, means and ways to avoid plagiarism. The sub-topics of this colloquium and the corresponding speakers are as follows: TOPICS SPEAKERS 1. Introduction Alovi Zhimomi 2. Types of Plagiarism with examples. Sagar Gajbe 3. Cases of Plagiarism. Dipanwita Das 4. Plagiarism detection tools (Commercial Software). Srinivas Gurrala 5. Plagiarism detection tools (Open Source Software). Shiva Shankar Mahato 6. Plagiarism and the role of librarians. Kanu Chakraborty 7. Summary and conclusion. Vandana Date: 13-04-2016 Time: 2 p.m. Venue: DRTC (Room G-16), ISI Bangalore. All are cordially invited. Coordinator Dr. Biswanath Dutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.