Is my work more likely to get plagiarised if its openly accessible?
Plagiarism is a major concern to people posting material on the open web. However, your work once in an institutional repository is no more likely to be plagiarised than it is in a commercial online journal. All content loaded to Bradford Scholars is given a date stamp which will assist, if necessary, in establishing prior intellectual ownership. In addition current technological developments allow publishers as well as institutions map new articles against the whole of the web to see if any of the offered content is plagiarised from existing works.
