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Attitude, Awareness and Perception towards Plagiarism: A survey Mithu Anjali Gayan, Assistant Professor, DLIS, Tripura University, mithu.anjali@gmail.com, 8794299657 1 Introduction An act of academic dishonesty . There are different other factors such as matters of reputation, acceptance, shame, economic loss, self-esteem, and indignation are also related to it” (Stuart Hannabuss, 2001). 2 Objectives To study degree of level of understanding about plagiarism among the students/ scholars. To study different copying behavior of the students/ scholars. To understand the citing activities of the sample. To study the use style manuals To study the use of reference management tools. 3 Methodology Questionnaire method was used. Questionnaire was created with the help of Google form Distributed through personal e-mail ids and social networking sites. 4 Findings Out of total population 58.33% is female population followed by 41.67% male population. Highest number (15.83%) of total population belongs to Gauhati University followed by Pondicherry University (14.58%) and Central University of Tripura (14.58%). 45.83% is PG students followed by 41.67% are PhD scholars and 12.50 5 M.Phil scholars. 5 Awareness The study revealed one encouraging fact that the 100.00% sample population have heard of Plagiarism and is aware of what Plagiarism stands for. 75.42 % have heard it from their faculties/ guide/ supervisor followed by 12.08 % from internet, 9.58% from conferences/seminars and 2.9% from others. 6 Attitude 70.83% of the sample population started citing for the first time during your post graduation. 50% is using reference management tool/software for writing their paper/thesis/dissertation out of which 83.33 % agree that using a reference management tool saves their time and will make their reference work easier. 73.75% of the total population reported that their libraries are conducting workshops on how to use a reference management tool/ Style manual out of which 65.34 % conduct it several times in a year followed by 35.23% once in a year 31.07% attended those workshops and out of that 71.75 % were very much benefited by attending it. 7 Figure1: Use of Reference Management tool 8 39.17% of the population use APA as the style manual. 75% of the population uses style manuals because they think using a style manual will standardize their work and will make their work presentable and acceptable across boundaries 9 Table 1. Table 2. 10 Plagiarism detection 38.75% never checked the percentage of plagiarism in their paper/assignments/dissertation/thesis before submitting it with the help of websites offering