Panaji, March 02: Duplication or plagiarism of PhD theses will hopefully be curtailed as more and more universities are joining University Grant Commission’s (UGC) initiative of installing anti-plagiarism software, an expert said here.
“In all 14 universities have already signed a memorandum of understanding and more are in the pipeline,” Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network), an initiative of UGC, told reporters here today.
Arora said the UGC chairman had already asked all the Universities to be the part of initiative, which will act as a deterrent for plagiarism in PhD theses.
He said till now the academicians had access only to the bibliography of the theses and not the entire research document.
“The issue is you just don’t know whether same thesis is already worked on.
-Agencies