Plagirism again, please join the discussion on research gate

[Lappin, Shalom]

Dear Colleagues,

         I am forced to agree with Valia on this issue. Deliberate plagiarism of scientific articles is a very
serious professional misdeed. 

Stefan has presented compelling evidence that such an action has been committed. But this
charge should be pursued with the administration of the university on whose site the material 
was posted, with the person who authored the material, and, if necessary, with the relevant
professional and legal agencies.

It is not a suitable topic for discussion on a linguistics email list, where none of us have
the resources to fully investigate the evidence, or the authority to reach a judgement on this
case. 

Best,
Shalom

On 30 Mar 2014, at 08:54, Valia Kordoni <evangelia.kordoni at ANGLISTIK.HU-BERLIN.DE>
 wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I personally feel (from the first moment I read the original message)
> extremely uncomfortable that all this sensitive info is being discussed on
> a mailing list, and we are all implicitly/explicitly being asked to pass
> judgements on the scientific deeds and the quality of such deeds of a
> (female) person, and to take sides. Is she a member of any of the lists
> where the original email went to? How can she participate in the
> discussion and get the chance to defend herself, if there is anything to
> defend and if she can? I am really sorry to say this. I strongly believe
> that such issues should be taken to and resolved by justice bodies/courts:
> defaming someone is bad an offence as plagiarism.
> 
> Regards,
> Valia
> 
> On Sun, March 30, 2014 09:33, Louise McNally wrote:
>> About this I can provide some information:
>> 
>>> As for her university: Non of this stuff was peer reviewed
>> (fortunately). I wonder how the university rates the output of their
>> employees.
>> 
>> This person is the equivalent of a tenure-track assistant professor. She
>> will have to go through accreditation by a national agency in order to
>> be able to apply for tenure. If she has not gone through that process
>> yet, this information would obviously be useful to her university
>> (getting it to the agency directly is not a simple process). I would be
>> surprised if she were to get accredited without peer-reviewed
>> publications, but there are many levels of peer review, and I'm not sure
>> to what extent the agency requires publications in indexed journals as
>> opposed to national level journals where the peer review process is not
>> rigorous.
>> 
>> Louise
>> 
> 
> 
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