Copyright protection is one of the important categories of the theory of civil and civil procedural law. Copyright protection should be understood as the measures envisaged by law for their recognition, termination of attempt to infringe them, application of measures of legal liability to offenders. The protection of the personal non-property and property rights of copyright subjects shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by administrative, civil and criminal law. Article 19 of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights defines infringements giving grounds for copyright protection.
When submitting a manuscript for publication in the journal “Chemistry, Technology of Substances and Their Applications”, the authors agree that, if accepted, the article will be available in electronic databases with mandatory copyright and copyright in full by authors. In the text of the work itself, the sources of external information - in the form of lists of sources of literature (including the personal works of the authors, previously published) should be cited in full. The author(s) of the manuscript shall be obliged to duly make the borrowing in the form of quotations or references to the original source. Any form of plagiarism is unacceptable, that is, it is regarded by the editorial board as unethical and unacceptable for further cooperation.
Plagiarism is the attribution of a work to another's work or to someone else's discovery, invention or innovation, and the use of another's work in their works without reference to the author.
The editorial board of the edition "Chemistry, technology of substances and their application" condemns the following forms of plagiarism:
- • Exactly copying an existing copyrighted, patented object without properly registering the parts it borrowed. To prove this form of plagiarism is the simplest, since there is complete symbolic or structural duplication of the borrowed material;
- • Publication of the object of the author's work, the content of which contains part or all of the material of other (s) authors in linguistic, lexical, technological interpretation. Such plagiarism alters the author's schema of the sign system (a specific specific arrangement of letters, numbers, such as text), allowing the plagiarist to use it as an original, sign-based work. Such an interpretation can often be detected by hardware or software, unless the object of the author's work has been radically altered;
- • false plagiarism, which includes: errors in references and in the definition of quotations; references to non-existent sources of information; errors in the presentation of accurate facts without specifying the source (unless it is a personal study); errors in the presentation of the structure and content of information sources.
The editorial board strongly condemns any manifestation of plagiarism in the manuscripts of articles as a violation of copyright and scientific ethics. If more than 20% of the borrowed text is found in the article without appropriate references to the original source and the use of quotation marks, the article qualifies as plagiarized. In this case, the manuscript of the article is no longer considered, and the author receives the first warning (in the presence of the scientific advisor it is also made known).
Authors in whom plagiarism will be re-discovered will no longer be able to publish in the journal “Chemistry, Technology of Substances and Their Applications”, and the fact of plagiarism will be reported to the management of their scientific institutions or organizations.