About
Introduction
Over the past decade, cross-disciplinary interest in plagiarism and other forms of fraud as a focus of study has resulted from various discourse communities having to deal with serious violations of scholarship norms. Plagiarism, falsification of data, and fabrications have tainted the reputations of individuals, institutions, and professions as a whole.
To bring together the various strands of scholarship which already exist on the subject, and to create a forum for discussion across disciplinary boundaries, the new scholarly journal Plagiary exists. Devoted specifically to the scholarly, cross-disciplinary study of plagiary and related behaviors across the disciplines, articles in Plagiary address the issue of fraudulent contributions to disciplinary discourse communities and the potential (and actual) corruption of the professional literature and other genres of discourse as a result of such derivative and/or fraudulent "contributions" to discoursal interchange.
Yet along with such fraudulent representations which seem to be quite common across various discourse communities, there are also legimate means of derivative expression, and studies which analyze such topics as mimicry, parody, pastiche and the like are welcome for publications consideration.
Call for Papers
Subscriptions
To subscribe to the print version of Plagiary, please see Plagiary subscriptions.
Submission Guidelines
Papers are accepted for consideration with the understanding that they have not previously been published elsewhere (with the exception of conference abstracts and proceedings as well as newly updated or otherwise revised research reports--editorial notation of such to be made with a byline of previous publications with author responsible for obtaining any permissions necessary; reprints for the purposes of providing a historical perspective are also eligible for publications consideration, again with an acknowledgement of such), and are not currently being considered for publication in other venues of scholarly publication. Upon acceptance of an article/review for publication, copyright will be assigned to the Editorial Board of Plagiary with a non-exclusive agreement to distribute and preserve journal content being assigned to the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library. No reasonable request by authors for permission to reproduce contributions to Plagiary shall be refused.
For more information on submission guidelines, please see information for authors at the primary website.
Contact
John P. Lesko, Editor
Department of English
Saginaw Valley St. Univ
University Center, MI
USA 48710
jplesko@svsu.edu
(989) 964-2067
(989) 790-7638 FAX
