In which I am plagiarised
Ten years ago, I wrote an article about an organisation, the archives of which I had catalogued, for publication in its journal, on its history and its archives.
In the most recent issue of its journal, there appears an article by another person on the history of the organisation, which is substantially based on mine. At first I thought they had ( Read more... )
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I've had that feeling...and it does have something to do with my current approach to academia (or lack thereof).
Good that they acknowledged it, at least.
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I am now wondering if they are going to put an apology in the next issue of the journal...
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My father died in 1999. He'd had some involvement with a major police force elsewhere in the UK, and my mother received a request for some biographical details for their staff magazine. I put together a package of material including photographs and wrote about 500 words on his career and personality. I sent it off and pretty much forgot about it - we had a fair amount on our minds.
Some months later my mother was sent a copy of said magazine, which had done him proud, devoting a double page spread to him, using several of the photographs. The text was mine, word for word, unedited. All under the byline of the magazine's editor - a distinguished retired police officer.
No, I did not complain. Perhaps I should have done.
I'm glad you got some form of redress. In your field it's very bad to have your own work plagiarised like that.
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This wasn't a serious peer-reviewed article in scholarly journal, but it was based a) on research in the archives that no-one else had or has done b) written up by someone (i.e. me) with a sense of how this body fitted within a broader historical context.
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I was annoyed, but not about to upset my mother by making a fuss.
c) It took a non-negligible amount of your time to write and deserved respect for the effort you put into it.
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