Academic integrity is a set of ethical principles and rules established by law that should guide participants in the educational process during learning, teaching and research (creative) activities in order to ensure trust in learning outcomes and/or scientific (creative) achievements.
Author is an individual who has created a work.
A work (material) is information resulting from the scientific or educational and methodological activities of a particular person (or in co-authorship), presented on paper or in electronic form on the Internet (monograph, textbook, manual, article, abstract, preprint, abstract and manuscript of a dissertation (thesis), master’s or bachelor’s thesis, term paper or project, essay, essay, test paper, etc.).
Plagiarism is the disclosure (publication), in whole or in part, of another’s work under the name of a person who is not the author of that work (Article 50 of the Law of Ukraine “On Copyright and Related Rights”).
Quote is a relatively short excerpt from a literary, scientific or any other (including those published on the Internet) work that is used, with the obligatory reference to its author and source of quotation, by another person in his/her work in order to make his/her own statements clearer or to refer to the views of another author in an authentic formulation.
The uniqueness of the work (material) is the ratio (in percentage) of the material that has no coincidences with other publications to the total amount of material.