Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their behalf.
Manuscripts and the full thematic issues must be submitted online via Bentham's Manuscript Processing System (MPS) at / View Submission Instructions However, technical terms and sometimes standard procedures cannot be rephrased therefore Editors must review these sections carefully before making a decision.Īn online submission and tracking service via Internet facilitates a speedy and cost-effective submission of manuscripts. Authors can easily explain these parts of the manuscript in many ways. Higher similarity in the abstract, introduction, materials and methods, and discussion and conclusion sections indicates that the manuscript may contain plagiarized text. Authors should either paraphrase properly or quote and in both cases, cite the original source. Similarly, manuscripts with language somewhere between paraphrasing and quoting are not acceptable. Properly citing a work but poorly paraphrasing the original text is considered as unintentional plagiarism. Verbatim copying of text without putting quotation marks and not acknowledging the work of the original author.
Paraphrasing poorly: Copying complete paragraphs and modifying a few words without changing the structure of original sentences or changing the sentence structure but not the words. It is an author’s use of a previous publication in another paper without proper citation and acknowledgement of the original source. Text recycling, also known as self-plagiarism. Reproduction of others words, sentences, ideas or findings as one’s own without proper acknowledgement. However, the following important features can assist in identifying different kinds of plagiarized content. It is therefore not easy to draw a clear boundary between legitimate representation and plagiarism. The data must be used only for the intended purpose, and it is not allowed to provide the data to third parties without the permission of the GWDG.We all know that scholarly manuscripts are written after thorough review of previously published articles. In this contract it is stated that data privacy and data security must be conform with German law. Regarding the transfer and storage of data on servers outside Europe, a contract was concluded between GWDG and iParadigms regarding data processing on order. Your own mail address and your name must be saved on iParadigms' servers because they are used for your account. A permission is not needed for cited names in writings already published. See also the recommendations of the DFN association (German only). Otherwise you need the permission of the owner to avoid issues regarding data privacy. addresses, acknowledgments, declarations of originality etc., these must removed before uploading the document (recommended also for your own writings). In case a writing contains personal data, e. A permanant storage isn't necessary for the originality check of a scientific paper and thus is not allowed. Currently, Institutional Repositories are not available to customers of the GWDG. In iThenticate, except if you use Institutional Repositories, also no document is saved durable. To avoid a permanent storage of the uploaded writings in the Global Student Database in turnitin, iParadigms has configured the accounts created by GWDG in a way that this option is not available.
You may find this information in the license specification for the document or in the website's imprint. Writings found in the Internet you are allowed to check, if they are under common license or you have the copyright owner's permission.
If no general permission exists, you need to get the owner's permission before you use turnitin or iThenticate. Such a regulation may be found either in the exam regulations, the study regulations or other regulations. Please verify in your faculty or your institute whether there is a general regulation regarding the copyright and the data privacy issue. This means that you are not allowed to check with turnitin and/or iThenticate any papers from students or other writings that are not your own without the permission of the owner. For doing so without infringing copyright or data privacy, you need to make sure that you have the permission of the copyright holder respectively the owner of the personal data.
You only have the permission to use this account for operational activities for the GWDG, the University of Goettingen or the Max Planck Society.įor using the plagiarism detection software turnitin or iThenticate it is necessary to save the writings on servers of iParadigms in Europe and the USA.
You will receive your plagiarism account from the GWDG.