Alan, I am sorry to hear that some of your manuscripts were plagiarized. I also feel that these instances will only increase in occurrence in the coming years, based upon the ease with which scientists, students, etc. can find and transfer this information, the extreme bulk of information out there and the inability to read all of it, and the move towards non-peer-reviewed journals (see Science in the News from just yesterday <http://www.americanscientist.org/template/NewsletterDirect>). Recently, the engineering department at Ohio University found that a number of students had plagiarized a fair amount of text (constituting a full investigation, faculty reprimands, and potential revoking of awarded degrees, if my memory serves me correctly) and I don't imagine that this is the only school where the problem exists.
All the best, joe Joseph David Conroy, M.S. Doctoral Candidate Department of EEOB The Ohio State University Department Address Office Address 300 Aronoff Laboratory 1250A Museum of Biological Diversity 318 W. 12th Avenue 1315 Kinnear Road Columbus, Ohio 43210 Columbus, Ohio 43212 Office: (614) 292-5230 Mobile: (614) 537-2449 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~eeob/limnologylab/joeconroy/joeconroy_titlepage.htm "Let the experiment be made." - Benjamin Franklin "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such a wholesale return of conjecture out of a trifling investment of fact." - Mark Twain "Torture statistics long enough and they will confess to anything." - Gregg Easterbrook At 07:46 AM 10/3/2006, Alan Wilson wrote: >Dear All, > >I recently reviewed a manuscript that plagiarized from at least two >of my papers. Based on my findings, the editor quickly rejected the >manuscript and discouraged the authors from submitting it >elsewhere. After sharing the experience with my colleagues, I was >surprised at the disparity in their reactions. Some were disgusted >by the plagiarism (as I was), while others would have been flattered >if their text had been copied. Although I am happy to know that the >manuscript was rejected, I am not totally convinced that the >punishment (i.e., rejected manuscript) fit the crime given that the >manuscript may have been rejected anyway - regardless of the plagiarism. > >My questions to the group have to do with how you feel about >plagiarism and plagiarists. > >(1) Is this a common phenomenon? >(2) How should plagiarists be handled? > >Thanks for your feedback. > >Alan > > > > >Alan E. Wilson >CILER - University of Michigan >2205 Commonwealth Blvd. >Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >office: 734-741-2293; cell: 770-722-9075; fax: 509-356-5349 >website: >http://ciler.snre.umich.edu/research/profiles/wilson/wilsonprofile.html > >Content-Type: text/plain; name="CANIT-VOTING-LINKS-79711777-15854ae1260e.txt" >Content-Disposition: inline; > filename="CANIT-VOTING-LINKS-79711777-15854ae1260e.txt" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.420 (Entity 5.420) > > >-- >BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS >------------------------------------------------------ > >Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 79711777) is spam: >Spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=s&i=79711777&m=15854ae1260e >Not spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=n&i=79711777&m=15854ae1260e >Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?c=f&i=79711777&m=15854ae1260e >------------------------------------------------------ >END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
