US war on plagiarism takes first UK scalp

Article Abstract:

An ongoing campaign in the United States against academic plagiarism appears to be spreading to the United Kingdom following the discovery by Harvard University undergraduate Tod Fine that Neil Winn, senior lecturer in European Studies at Leeds University, had copied the work of another scholar. Fine's research revealed that parts of a 1996 monograph written by Winn, entitled "European Crisis Management in the 1980s", were nearly identical to parts of a 1992 journal paper written by Steve Livingstone, associate professor of political science at Middle Tennessee State University.

United States, Legal issues & crime, Company legal issue, Investigations, Winn, Neil, Fine, Tod

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Anti-cheat software turned on academe

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Blackwell and Elsevier, two of the world's leading academic publishers, have unveiled plans to start using the sort of software used to catch cheating students to help detect plagiarism and duplication in work submitted by researchers. The move is part of efforts to attempt to counter an apparent increase in cases of academic plagiarism.

Netherlands, Prevention, Technology application, Reed Elsevier N.V.

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Scholar attacked for links to junta

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International academics have criticised archaeologist Dr Elizabeth Moore for her close links with Burma's military dictatorship. Moore, head of the arts and archaeology department at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, is currently on a year-long sabbatical in Burma.

Officials and employees, Political aspects, International relations, Myanmar, Archaeologists, University of London, Moore, Elizabeth

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