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Background situation Slovakia – 5, 4 milion inhabitants Number of universities: ▫Public – 20 ▫State – 3 ▫Private – 13 ▫Foreign – 4 (not operating under Slovak Legislation) Factors of plagiatorism: ▫Internet penetration ▫„Copy and paste“ use ▫Low knowledge of citation ethics Need for a centralized system for the collection, preservation and access of theses on national level Need for antiplagiarism control on national levelTRANSCRIPT
Centralised National Corpus of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Július Kravjar Marta Dušková
CVTI SR
GL 14, Roma, 29. – 30.11.2012
OutlineOutline
•Background situation•Legislation support•CRTD and PDS formation•CRTD and PDS
characteristic•2 years after
implementation
Background situationBackground situation• Slovakia – 5, 4 milion inhabitants• Number of universities:
▫ Public – 20▫ State – 3▫ Private – 13▫ Foreign – 4 (not operating under Slovak Legislation)
• Factors of plagiatorism:▫ Internet penetration▫ „Copy and paste“ use▫ Low knowledge of citation ethics
Need for a centralized system for the collection, preservation and access of theses on national level
Need for antiplagiarism control on national level
Legislation supportLegislation support
• 2008 – Slovak Rector´s conference focused on the issue of plagiarism
• 2008 – Slovak Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (=MinEdu) decided to create national repository of theses and plagiarism detection system
• 2009 – Highter Education Act amendment:▫ all universities (operating under Highther Education Act) must to send each thesis to national repository of theses,▫ each thesis must be checked to plagiarism control.
CRTD CRTD & & PDS formationPDS formation• April 2010• Creation of:
▫ Central Repository of Theses and Dissertations ▫ Plagiarism Detection System
• Content: ▫ bachelor, diploma, dissertation and habilitation theses and selected internet recouces
• Owner: ▫ MinEdu
• Administrator: ▫ Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information
• Technical solution and support: ▫ SVOP, Ltd.
CRTD & PDS characteristicCRTD & PDS characteristic• Free access: www.crzp.sk• Language: slovak• Number of theses: more than 223 000• Language of theses: slovak, english, german• Theses from 1.9.2011 – full text access (second
Highter Education Act Amendment)• Before state examination – supervisor of thesis
gets Protocol of Originality Check• After state examination – public access to thesis in
CRTD• CRTD - information source about grey literature
produced at slovak universities
Searching in CRTD
Results of searching
Full text of thesis
Number of theses from April 2010 to September 2012
2 year after 2 year after implementationimplementation
• Routine operation of CRTD, PDS• Continuos development of algorithm
PDS
• 2 awards of PDS:▫ 1. place at PAN 2011 in Amsterdam
(Lab Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misure)
▫ 2. place at ITAPA 2011 in Bratislava (Information Technology and Public Administration)
Marta DuškováMarta DuškováJúlius KravjarJúlius Kravjar
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