Plagiarism and Fair use of Copyrighted Work: Awareness Survey among Doctoral Students of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India

Plagiarism is polluting the academic and research environment globally. The digitization of contents or every type of information available and accessible through Internet is the main cause for plagiarism. Even some famous faces are facing the allegations of plagiarism worldwide. In this paper, it is tried to explore the awareness about the plagiarism, copyright and fare use among the doctoral research students of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCS HAU), Hisar. To examine the awareness and views about the plagiarism among the doctoral research students, a survey is conducted with the help of structured questionnaire in the month of November 2018, which revealed some interesting facts. Results revealed that 53.43% of the respondents were fully aware about the plagiarism, however, lack of good writing skills (71.23%) and language problem (64.38%) were the two major reasons for doing plagiarism.