Science integrity software in intellectual production with planning to develop an Arab program

Document Type : Scientific Articles

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Assistant Professor, Department of Library, Archives and Information Technology Faculty of Arts - Cairo University

Abstract

The study deals with plagiarism detection applications in research writings to achieve integrity in scientific research. It discusses their functions, the reasons for their appearance, their types, and the most known of them. The study proceeds to put a planned design for a proposed application suitable for the Arabic environment, by identifying its aspects, the intended writings for detection, its objectives, the responsible entity, and its databases, providing a clear description of the way it works based on the descriptive, in its survey method.
The study concluded that there is an urgent need to use software to detect plagiarism, as it is dangerous and an infringement of the intellectual rights of others. The study recommends the necessity to use these applications in universities and research centers, and the need to design an Arabic application adapted to the nature and structures of the Arabic language, and the nature of the Arabic environment.

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