title: Self-plagiarism in academic publishing: the anatomy of a misnomer.
abstract: The paper discusses self-plagiarism and associated practices in scholarly publishing. It approaches at some length the conceptual issues raised by the notion of self-plagiarism. It distinguishes among and then examines the main families of arguments against self-plagiarism, as well as the question of possibly legitimate reasons to engage in this practice. It concludes that some of the animus frequently reserved for self-plagiarism may be the result of, among others, poor choice of a label, unwarranted generalizations as to its ill effects based on the specific experience (and goals) of particular disciplines, and widespread but not necessarily beneficial publishing practices.
authors.affiliation: Spriu Haret University, Bucharest, Romania. andreescul@gmail.com
authors.forename: Liviu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Andreescu
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015714:Plagiarism; D011643:Publishing / Q000941:ethics*