Plagiarism has long been a problem for authors, readers and publishers and in an increasingly digital world, it has become far easier to find and appropriate the content of others. However, the same technology also makes it easier to spot cases of plagiarism by rapidly comparing sequences of text against large databases of existing published material. This seminar will explore the technologies available for detecting potential cases of plagiarism and their practical application to the publishing workflow. It will also cover the crucial issue of how cases are handled and what sort of action can be taken, both from the publisher's perspective and that of the university or research organisation. As well as text plagiarism, the seminar will also look at the related area of image falsification and its detection.

Who should attend: This seminar will be of interest primarily to Editorial and Production staff in both books and journals operations.

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Programme

0900 Registration, Tea and coffee

0915 Introduction from the chair (PDF) (audio)
Harvey Marcovitch, Past chair of COPE

0945 The implications of plagiarism for the integrity of science and its outputs (PDF) (audio)
David McNamee, The Lancet

1025 Problems encountered in using manipulation software (PDF) (audio)
Virginia Barbour, PLoS Medicine

1105 Tea/coffee

1125 Copy and Paste: Why do non-native users of English do it? (PDF) (audio)
Anne Flood, PlagiarismAdvice.org

1230 Lunch

1340 Incorporating plagiarism detection software into copy flow systems (PDF) (audio)
Richard Delahunty, Taylor and Francis

1420 How editors should handle plagiarism - using COPE Flowcharts (PDF) (audio)
Randell Stephenson, School of Geosciences, Aberdeen University

1500 Tea/coffee

1520 How universities should handle plagiarism (PDF) (audio)
Professor Bob Allison, University of Sussex

1600 Legal aspects (PDF) (Plagiarism and the Law.pdf)
Joss Saunders, Blake Lapthorn

1640 Closing remarks followed by a networking reception with wine and nibbles

Booking Form

Registration Fees including lunch:
ALPSP Member: £195.00 excl VAT (£224.25 incl VAT @ 15%)
Academic: £210.00 excl VAT (£241.50 incl VAT @ 15%)
Non-Member: £320.00 excl VAT (£368.00 incl VAT @ 15%)

For further information, please contact Diane French (email; +44 (0)1827 709188)