RULES OF PROCEDURE

 Chapter XX

Art. 108. All research projects by PPGLI faculty and students must be conducted on the basis of ethical principles and standards, respect for intellectual property and methodological rigor.

Art. 109. The Program Board is responsible for drawing up and publishing general guidelines for preserving research quality and combating fraud and plagiarism within the PPGLI.

Art. 110. For the purposes of these Regulations, academic fraud or plagiarism is considered academic fraud or plagiarism:

  1. The use (in projects, articles, reviews, summaries, dissertations or theses, among others) of concepts, ideas, opinions, images, graphics, texts, phrases, research data or other intellectual formulations of third parties, presenting them as if they were of their own authorship or without strictly informing the origin or sources, as mandated by the guidelines of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT).
  2. Presenting written texts that have been provided or purchased from third parties as their own.
  3. Preparing and delivering or publishing academic work based on copying and pasting different texts, articles, reviews or summaries that circulate on the internet or in other written, electronic and digital media, without complying with ABNT standards and intellectual integrity.
  4. Using readings or bibliographic reviews prepared by third parties in excerpts, paragraphs, summaries or footnotes of articles or book chapters and dissertations and theses, presenting them as their own.
  5. Publishing texts in co-authorship with other students or teachers who have not actually participated in their preparation.
  6. Using excerpts, paragraphs or parts of articles of their own authorship, inserting them into chapters of dissertations or theses submitted to the PPGLI, without proper reference or information on the original source where they were published (self-plagiarism).

Art. 111. Whether intentional or not, the presence of any sign or evidence of academic plagiarism, in whole or in part, in texts (assignments and activities in courses, qualifying exams and dissertation and thesis defenses, articles in periodicals or book chapters, abstracts, papers or slides from presentations at events) by students or professors of the Program, will be subject to the opening of an administrative process for investigation and analysis by the PPGLI Ethics Committee.

Sole Paragraph. After investigation and analysis, the Ethics Committee's opinion will be discussed and decided by the Collegiate Body, and if the academic wrongdoing is proven, an individual administrative process should be opened for the student's dismissal and, in the case of co-authored work or dissertations and theses, the disqualification of the teacher involved as co-author or advisor.

Art. 112. The Secretariat and Coordination, as well as the entire teaching staff of the Program will use logical support, software or digital tools to help identify and combat academic plagiarism.   

Art. 113. At any time, formal complaints of academic plagiarism in dissertations or theses defended at the PPGLI will be investigated and analyzed by the Ethics Committee and, once proven, the appropriate administrative process will be opened to revoke the title granted.