PLAGIARISM AT UNIVERSITIES — HOW TO FIGHT IT?
CASE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Jiří Přibil, Ondřej Lešetický, and Hana Karásková
Faculty of Management
University of Economics, Prague
Czech Republic

There has been an increasingly urgent need to prevent a very specific type of unethical behavior — plagiarism — at Czech universities/colleges in the last few years. With more and more increasing availability of electronic sources for professional scientific texts the level of its “violation” by plagiarism raises proportionally. The chance for intercepting such a plagiarized content is very low. The paper will present a basic comparison of the current situation on the plagiarism in the Czech Republic with the situation in the United States. At the conclusion there will be introduced unique system developed for extremely fast analysis of the plagiarized content.

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