Against Plagiarism

(YH (Helen) ZHANG has been as Chief editor of Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A/B & FITEE and Journal Director of Zhejiang University Press for 16 years. She is also a Council Member of ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers), Board Member of PILA/CrossRef, and Vice President of Society of China University Journals, respectively. Helen is very active in STM journal publishing area. She has for many times being invited to give speeches at international conferences, including at the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity in Brazil, the 11th International Conference of Science Editors (in Beijing) and the 12th International Conference of Science Editors (in Mexico) etc. She has published several short papers in Nature and many papers in international journals. In 2010, she received a research fund from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). And she, with her team, already published many papers focused on CrossCheck guidance: an analysis of typical cases of plagiarism in different disciplines.

“This book provides a comprehensive insight into aspects of plagiarism within the field of scientific publications. … Overall, the book contributes to the plagiarism debate and brings to this discussion an international dimension that many other publications lack and as such, it makes for interesting reading and is a thought-provoking contribution to the field.” (Nicole Brown, Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, Vol. 4 (3), 2016)

• Part 1 – General plagiarism issues.- What is plagiarism?.- Differences between Anglophone and non-Anglophone journals.- Publication in more than one language.- How not to deal with it:  a case study.- Part 2 – Discipline-specific plagiarism issues.- Biosciences:  Replication of Methods sections.- Computing and Electrical & Electronic Engineering:  republication of conference papers.- Part 3 – What to do about it.- Promoting awareness of publication ethics.- Avoiding plagiarism as an author.- Detecting potential plagiarism.- Dealing with plagiarism as an editor.