Use and Awareness of Plagarism Detection Tools Among Research Scholars: A Study

The present study is an attempt to analyse the status on the awareness of plagiarism detection tools among the research scholars of Mangalore University. A structured questionnaire was designed and distributed among research scholars from various academic disciplines. The data collected using questionnaire method. Totally 110 respondents of randomly selected university scholars participated in this study. A total of 101 valid questionnaires were analysed with the help of Excel and SPSS. Results of the study revealed that research scholars were aware about plagiarism issues in academia. Majority 96 (95.0%) of respondents are aware of Urkund plagiarism detection software. 81 (80.2%) of the respondents believe that plagiarism is copying words from several sources and 73 (72.3%) believe that copying of idea or theory without giving credit to source document is plagiarism