CODE OF ETHICS IN SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: THE PLAGIARISM ISSUE

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a hyper production of various scientific, professional papers, books that were available in paper or electronic form. The possibility for everyone to freely publish and be the author of works of different character brings its own challenge: how to publish a work that is original and does not infringe the copyrights of another author or another aspect of the problem: how to protect possible plagiarism of your works. The paper will analyze the rights of the authors of scientific and professional works, as a type of author's work, and the conditions of copyright that apply in the Republic of North Macedonia and in comparative law, including the most important international conventions. This paper intends to show that the researches that are done in different scientific fields need to be considered from an ethical point of view, that is, the code of ethics should be an element inseparable from the researches. Ethics in scientific - research work is of great importance in the context of the relevance of information, the conclusions reached by researchers and in general, when we talk about research, we imply ethical research. Furthermore, the concept of plagiarism, one of the biggest problems in scientific-research ethics and how plagiarism can be proven, will be analyzed. At the end, the measures that have been taken by the authors for the protection of copyrights also will be analyzed. In the course of the analysis, the (un)ethical aspects of the scientific-research work, the completion of infringing other people's copyrights, will be discussed.