title: Combating plagiarism in higher education at the national level
Creators: name: Foltynek, Tomas
Publisher: name: GreyNet International, Grey Literature Network Service
Year: 2013

description: 	Nationwide implementation of Central Repository of Theses and Dissertations (five types) together with nationwide implementation of Plagiarism Detection System obligatory for all Slovak higher education institutions lifted plagiarism awareness of Slovak students on the highest level in Europe. International research project “Impact of Policies for Plagiarism in Higher Education Across Europe” (IPPHEAE, EU funded, 2010-2013, Project Lead Partner: Coventry University, United Kingdom) carried out a survey in all EU countries. They prepared country reports for 27 EU countries (http://ippheae.eu/project-results). In the report “Plagiarism Policies in Slovakia” you can read this: “There were some notable differences between the Slovak surveys and the EU average. Almost all Slovak students (99%!) become aware of plagiarism before or during their bachelor studies. The EU average shows that 20% of students become aware of plagiarism during their masters/PhD degree or are still not sure about it.” " ... Slovak students are the most aware of plagiarism among all EU countries" "The most outstanding example of good practice is definitely the existence of national repository of theses. As it is run centrally and universities are obliged to upload their theses, students from all institutions have theoretically the same conditions. The other aspect is that the software tool provides just a protocol for matching with other sources. The decision about whether a given case is plagiarism or not lies with teachers and/or the examination committee and these may not always follow the same procedures." "Compared to other countries, Slovakia should be praised for its achievements. And it already was: The European Commission has awarded the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information the European Prize for Innovation in Public Administration." "The responses from Slovak students demonstrated the highest level of understanding about plagiarism within the whole Europe. Their unwillingness (in comparison with other countries) to receive more training on plagiarism is therefore understandable. The research team of the IPPHEAE project would also like to praise Slovakia for existence of national repository of theses and built-in plagiarism detection tools." Our institution Centrum vedecko-technických informácií SR (in English: Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information is directly managed by Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport; http://www.cvtisr.sk/en.html?page_id=58) is the operator of nationwide Central Repository of Theses and Dissertations and nationwide Plagiarism Detection System since 2010. All Slovak higher education institutions are obligatory users of both systems. We are ready to share our experiences. In case of your deeper interest you have the possibility to read these papers: The path to an award-winning antiplagiarism system for higher education institutions. SciLogs, posted by Shannon Bohle, 2014 Available at: http://www.scilogs.com/scientific_and_medical_libraries/the-path-to-an-award-winning-antiplagiarism-system-for-higher-education-institutions/ Student anti-plagiarism measures reap rewards, University World News, 2014 Available at: http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20140220172834959 Strategies and responses to plagiarism in Slovakia. PLAGIARISM ACROSS EUROPE AND BEYOND - Conference Proceedings, 2013, pp. 201-215 Available at: http://ippheae.pefka.mendelu.cz/files/proceedings.pdf. The Occurrence of the Terms akademická etika and akademická integrita in Texts on the Internet and in the Media, 2013. Available at: http://ncpvat.cvtisr.sk/buxus/generate_page.php?page_id=938. Barrier to thriving plagiarism Conference paper - The 5th International Plagiarism Conference, 2012.