Plagiarism is defined by the World Association of Medical editors (WAME) as
follows:
>"Plagiarism is the use of others' published and unpublished ideas or words
>(or other intellectual property) without attribution or permission, and
>presenting them as new and original rather than derived from an existing
>source. The intent and effect of plagiarism is to mislead the reader as to
>the contributions of the plagiarizer. This applies whether the ideas or
>words are taken from abstracts, research grant applications, Institutional
>Review Board applications, or unpublished or published manuscripts in any
>publication format (print or electronic).
>
>Plagiarism is scientific misconduct and should be addressed as such."
[http://www.wame.org/pubethicrecom.htm#plagiarism]
What you describe meets this description and thus if true is completely
unacceptable. On the face of it, based only on the article, I find the
judgment that such behaviour was OK extremely surprising, to put it in its
most favourable light.
Doug
At 12:02 30/09/2005, Jane Hutton wrote:
>Dear Colleagues
>
>I recognise that decisions by university management are not necessarily
>supported by all academic staff.
>
>Medical statisticians are familiar with being left off grant applications
>and papers.
>
>What do you think of Sheffield University's apparent definition of
>plagiarism? See today's Times Higher, pg 8. Apparently, if three people
>write a grant proposal, two people are free to submit it without any
>reference to the other (main) author.
>
>Even if I were the lesser author on a joint authored manuscript, I would
>not expect the main author to submit in her own name alone.
>
>I wonder whether Sheffield University will now complain about my
>'distributing information, including a Times Higher article'? That
>appears to be a reason for the recent suspension of Dr Blumsohn, the
>academic who complained about plagiarism three years ago.
>
>regards
>Jane
>
>Prof J L Hutton Department of Statistics
>Chairman The University of Warwick
>Email: [log in to unmask] Coventry
>Tel: 024 7652 8357 CV4 7AL
>Fax: 024 7652 4532 United Kingdom
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