Rules and Regulations for Checking Similarity Index (Plagiarism) of JNU Central Library

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library, JNU

Rules and Regulations for Checking Similarity Index (Plagiarism)

• The term papers for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students will be checked by URKUND software provided by INFLIBNET, as long as the facility is available to the library.
• Turnitin software will be used for generating similarity report/originality for content in English and other European languages.
• The Central library will only entertain the drafts of M.Phil and PhD dissertations and theses for checking originality(Plagiarism).
• The library will check the drafts of theses and dissertations twice only.
• As per the UGC regulations, the Similarity Index (SI) of the dissertation and theses should be 10% or less, so in case the SI is 10% or less the same will not be re-checked by the library.