Plagiarism policy

In accordance with the provisions of the current Law of Ukraine "About Education" the authors of publications must adhere to the rules of academic integrity:

Adherence to academic integrity provides for:

  • references to sources of information in case of using ideas, developments, statements, information;
  • Compliance with copyright and related legislation;
  • providing reliable information on research methods and results, sources of information used and own pedagogical (scientific-pedagogical, creative) activity;
  • control over the observance of academic integrity by the recipients of education;
  • objective evaluation of learning outcomes.

Adherence to academic integrity by educational recipients provides for:

  • Independent performance of educational tasks, tasks of current and final control of learning outcomes (for persons with special educational needs this requirement is applied taking into account their individual needs and opportunities);
  • references to sources of information in case of using ideas, developments, statements, information;
  • Compliance with copyright and related legislation;
  • providing reliable information about the results of their own educational (scientific, creative) activity, used research methods and sources of information.
  • Violation of academic integrity is:
  • Academic plagiarism - the publication (in part or in full) of scientific (creative) results obtained by others, as the results of one's own research (creativity) and / or reproduction of published texts (published works of art) by other authors without any authorship;
  • self-plagiarism - the publication (in whole or in part) of one's own previously published scientific results as new scientific results;
  • Fabrication - inventing data or facts used in an educational process or research;
  • Falsification - conscious alteration or modification of already available data relating to the educational process or research;
  • The editorial board will reject articles written in violation of the requirements of academic integrity, without the right of re-examination and without the possibility of revision.