Section 7 in The University Grants Commission (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2018
7. Similarity checks for exclusion from Plagiarism.
- The similarity checks for plagiarism shall exclude the following:i. All quoted work reproduced with all necessary permission and/or attribution.ii. All references, bibliography, table of content, preface and acknowledgements.iii. All generic terms, laws, standard symbols and standards equations.Note: The research work carried out by the student, faculty, researcher and staff shall be based on original ideas, which shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis, observations, results, conclusions and recommendations only and shall not have any similarities. It shall exclude a common knowledge or coincidental terms, up to fourteen (14) consecutive words.
