Abstract
The article clarifies the current state of academic integrity, gives a list of its basic principles, the reasons of their breach, suggests the ways to overcome breaches, and also it notes the plagiarism essence, and defines the categories of scientific plagiarism. The paper considers academic integrity as the commitment of an academic community to six fundamental values such as honesty, trust, fairness, justice, respect, responsibility, courage. The reasons why the basic principles of academic integrity are violated are considered. The violations include copying, forgery, involvement in the commission of academic dishonesty, plagiarism, deception. In the paper the term «plagiarism» means the theft of scientific ideas, misappropriation of another author's research results or text usage without correctly indicating sources of borrowings. It is noted that plagiarism is illegal behaviour in the scientific environment. The forms of illegal behaviour include scientific plagiarism, scientific information falsification, and production of pseudo-scientific products. The category of scientific plagiarism is analyzed in the category of obvious and non-obvious scientific plagiarism, when an expert’s participation for the problem consideration is necessary. One of the simplest and most effective mechanisms is offered, it is teaching students online self-checking of manuscript texts for originality. The article provides the examples of effective services for online self-checking of manuscript texts for originality. The most common online programs for self-checking of manuscript texts are presented. The paper emphasizes that academic integrity development for students should begin as early as possible. The promising ways of academic integrity development have been identified. It is argued that the systematic, explanatory, preventive work throughout the period of students’ scientific activity in university should be carried out. In conclusion it is proved that academic integrity development is necessary for all students
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