UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA

PROQUEST/PLAGIARISM CHECK UNIT

Dear All,
The University has mandated all Thesis/Dissertation/Project be checked for
plagiarism, the software access has been given to Instructors during the training.
The checking will be conducted as follows:
 All Post Graduate Dissertation and Thesis should be directed to the Plagiarism
Check Administrator for check. Students should come with the softcopies of
their research work, the email of supervisors, Head of Department and PG
Coordinators as all certificates will be forwarded to them from the
Administrator.
 Instructor of Faculties/Department that were given access during the training
can check the undergraduate project
 Faculty/Department without Instructors/faculty Plagiarism Check
representative should contact the Administrator at Digital Library
 Instructors should attach the certificate of check to the project before
submission.

SCOPE

All undergraduate and higher education courses, (Project, Dissertation, Theses, Articles and
Seminar Papers)

Guide for Checking Plagiarism

University of Abuja subscribes to the following guide for plagiarism check to ensure the
quality of research output.

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 The Flash Drive (or such device) containing the soft copy of the
thesis/dissertation/project has to be in PDF or Word file (or as directed from time to
time) submitted to the Administrator for plagiarism check prior to external
examination for the Post graduate Students.
 Thesis/dissertation/projects covering all the chapters, from introduction to
bibliography/references shall be in a single file, excluding preliminary pages.
 In case of the percentage of similar content is beyond the permitted limit or any
plagiarized content is detected, the researchers have to take appropriate measures
under the guide of their supervisors so as to ensure originality of research output.
 The researchers are informed to acknowledge accurately the right authors and sources
providing the text within quotes. Uniformity and consistency be maintained in
rendering bibliographic references. An accepted standard format has to be followed
for rendering references.
 All instructors can conduct Plagiarism check for their students and forward the result
to the supervisors who will advise them to make necessary adjustment before
forwarding for necessary action.
 All the Post Graduate students should submit soft copies of research work along with
the email of their supervisors to the Proquest/Plagiarism Check Unit for Plagiarism
Checking and the result shall be sent to the Post Graduate School and supervisors
for further verification by the representative of the PG School before proceeding for
external defence.
 All undergraduate students’ work shall be checked for plagiarism by instructors at the
Departmental and faculty level and are required to meet a similarity index of not more
than 35% before they are allowed to graduate.
 All lecturers are to make it compulsory for their students to attach a plagiarism result
to their projects before they can proceed to bind.
 25% similarity index is the standard for postgraduate students in Medical, Veterinary
Medicine, Agriculture, Engineering and Science/Science Education courses and 30%
for Arts, Social and Management Sciences and Law courses before they can be
subjected to external defence.

Penalties

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 In case found guilty of plagiarizing, submissions shall be considered under following
class of severity:
 Level 1: Similarities up to 30% - minor similarities, no penalty for Post Graduate
students in the Arts, Social and Management Sciences and Law programmes. No
penalty. Similarities of up to 25% - minor similarities for Postgraduate students in
Medical, Veterinary Medicine, Agriculture, Engineering and Science courses. No
penalty. Similarity of up to 35% for undergraduate students, no penalty.
 Level 2: Similarities above 25%, 30% and 35% to 40% - (for Postgraduate
students in Medical, Veterinary Medicine, Agriculture, Engineering and Science
courses; Post Graduate students in the Arts, Social and Management Sciences and
Law programmes and undergraduates respectively) shall be asked to withdraw
manuscript submitted for examination and shall be asked to submit a revised script
within a stipulated time period not exceeding 3 months.
 Level 3: Similarities above 40% to 60% - such student shall be asked to withdraw
manuscript submitted for examination and shall be debarred from submitting a
revised script for a period of 6 months.
 Level 4: Similarities above 60% - students shall be asked to withdraw manuscript
submitted for examination and such student’s registration for the
programme shall be cancelled.

The following persons shall assist the Instructors at Faculty levels

S/N Faculty Names of Faculty coordinators Contact
Facualty of Agriculture Dr. Senuga A. 08052500324
Faculty of David Ibrahim 08133288766
Management and
Social Sciences
School of Health 08133288766
Science
Faculty of Science/ Ahmed Belgore 08069087828
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Veterinary 08133288766
Medicine
Faculty of Law 08133288766
Faculty of Education Umar Adamu 08057523736

For all Centres:

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 S/N Centres/Institute Names Contacts
Centre for Distance Mr Samuel Ojo 07033974306
Learning Mr Danlami 08052200700
David Ibrahim 08133288766

Institute of Mr Ikwoche, Friday Idakwo 07030587548

Education/ Business and
School Kado Miss Jane Ugwu 08140562067

For more information contact the Administrator ProQuest/Plagiarism Checker (Digital

Library)

David Ibrahim Abakpa

Administrator, ProQuest/Plagiarism Checker