Fundamentals of academic integrity and anti-plagiarism. Training

    On January 23, the training "Fundamentals of academic integrity and struggle against plagiarism" was held at the initiative of the Mykolaiv Window on America Center. The event took place within the framework of the project "Culture of academic integrity: the role of libraries", which is being implemented in Ukraine since 2016 with the support of the US Embassy in Ukraine and the Ukrainian Library Association.

       The participants of the training were teachers and students of the Management’s Faculty and Business of the Mykolaiv Branch of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.

During the training participants learned about the notions and legal principles of academic integrity and plagiarism, free and commercial software for verifying plagiarized texts, international reference styles and citations in scientific papers, etc.

They also analyzed  different articles with examples of manifestations of corruption and plagiarism in the academic environment and discussed possible ways to combat plagiarism in Ukrainian universities. The participants also analyzed the main provisions of the " Honor’s Codes " from the American and Ukrainian universities and tried to elaborate the main provisions of the Honor’s Code of their university and the main activities of the company on academic integrity that can be organized.