"Scott R. Millis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I found two articles by the same author but published six years apart. > >> The > >> articles used different data sets and drew slightly different > >> conclusions. > >> However in the introductory and literature review sections, there were > >> entire paragraphs that were the same in both articles. The latest article > >> did not cite the first article and the copied paragraphs were not in > >> quotes. Is this common practice and/or an ethical problem? Can you > >> plagarize yourself? > > Although I'm not an attorney, it does seem possible to plagiarize > yourself: in most cases you assign the copyright to the publisher and, > hence, if you want to quote yourself/use your material, you may need to > get permission from the publisher. For example in the 5th edition of the > APA Pulication Manual (p. 122): "...APA policy permits use up to 500 > words of APA-copyrighted journal text without explicit permission...." > > > Scott Millis
Whether this instance is a case of legal plagiarism, it would not count as scientific misconduct plagiarism. Plagiarism is the mis-appropriation of someone else's ideas or words. Dennis Roberts, earlier in this thread, nailed the central issue: >the real issue which is essentially impossible to discern in today's >"quantity" culture is ... when is a different paper (article) different >ENOUGH to be considered to be a new contribution to the field ... that >person X gets credit for? Replicating parts of the intro and discussion amy be entirely appropriate if the projects are on the same topic, especially if it is part of the lit review. The key is whether the results are sufficiently different. Sam Scheiner . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
