Plagiarism: Detection and Prevention

The worldwide availability of scholarly works and contents through innumerable online open access journals and database freely available via Internet and the Web’s more interactive Web 2.0 evolution has created an environment that encourages information sharing and values the remixing and remaking of original content. Such an environment makes plagiarism easier to commit and originality more difficult to define. The present article discusses the various types of plagiarism which are commonly committed by the researchers and the strategies to be adopted to prevent it, thus making the research plagiarism free.