Plagiarism: Decision making & dealing with grey-zones across academic Fields

About this video

Plagiarism is often considered a classic form of scientific misconduct. However, it is sometimes tricky to draw a clear line between intentional copying and unintentional lack of references when using somebody else’s ideas and/or wording.

In collaboration with HEADT Centre at Humboldt University, this Researcher Academy webinar discusses the different forms of text plagiarism and presents some established strategies of detection. Also, this webinar focuses on image duplication and its effects and will ask what the future of plagiarism detection may look like in selected scientific fields.

After watching this webinar, you will be able to understand how plagiarism varies across scientific fields and the future of plagiarism detection.

About the presenters

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Michael Seadle
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Humboldt University of Berlin & Humboldt-Elsevier Advanced Data and Text Centre

Prof. Dr. Michael Seadle has written on a wide range of subjects including long term digital archiving, research methodology, copyright, digitization, computing management, and German history. He has been principal investigator on grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). His current research areas are research integrity and long term digital archiving.

He currently serves as Director of the Berlin School for Library and Information Science (Institut für Bibliothek- und Informationswissenschaft) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, as well as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts I, and chair of the Commission on Research Ethics (Wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten) and chair of the University Council. He is the editor of two academic journals. He is a founding co-director of the HEADT Centre (Humboldt Elsevier Advanced Data and Text Centre) and head of its research integrity unit.

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Thorsten Beck
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Humboldt University of Berlin & Humboldt-Elsevier Advanced Data and Text Centre

Thorsten Beck is Postdoc at the HEADT Centre, is a former member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Thorsten has profound experience as a museum curator and worked several years as a project manager for the Jewish Museum Berlin and for the agency BERGZWO communication + concepts. Since 2012 he has carried out research at the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the topic of scholarly image manipulations.

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Melanie Rügenhagen
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Humboldt University of Berlin & Humboldt-Elsevier Advanced Data and Text Centre

Melanie Rügenhagen is the manager of the HEADT Centre and a doctoral candidate at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is concerned with data integrity and specifically does research on practices for evaluating qualitative research.

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