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The failure of Rachel Reeves\u2019s publisher to pick up examples of apparent plagiarism in her new book has exposed the loose checks and lack of formal vetting among many top international book publishers.<\/p>\n

The Financial Times on Thursday revealed that the UK shadow chancellor\u2019s new book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics<\/em>, contains more than 20 examples of text that appears to be taken from other works without acknowledgment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is potentially very serious,\u201d said Greg Hands, Conservative party chair, who pointed out that German cabinet ministers have been forced to resign due to allegations of plagiarism in doctoral theses.<\/p>\n

Basic Books, an imprint of publishing giant Hachette, has admitted that factual sentences taken from primary sources should have been rewritten and properly referenced but this did not happen in every case.<\/p>\n

Reeves\u2019s office on Wednesday issued a statement denying plagiarism, but the shadow chancellor touched obliquely on the allegations at a book launch at the Institute for Government later that evening.<\/p>\n

Reeves at a talk about the book on Thursday said it had an extensive bibliography but \u201cnot everything got in there\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hold my hands up, it\u2019s my book, my name on the cover, and there were things in the book that should have been properly referenced,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked whether two other books she had authored contained \u201cinadvertent mistakes\u201d, the shadow chancellor said: \u201cI\u2019ve not had time to go through those books.\u201d She added: \u201cWriting this book while also doing this job was a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Publishing executives have said that plagiarism is a tricky area for many groups, whose resources are stretched given the number of books being published compared with relatively thin editorial teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of the time plagiarism was inadvertent and difficult to prove given the extent to which authors\u2019 work is drawn from their experiences and reading, said one person who works in publishing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But executives at leading publishers admitted that few use the sort of software that is now being adopted by universities to spot plagiarism and AI-generated content.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One said that companies instead rely on the honesty of their authors and skills of their editors in spotting anything that looks unusual or out of keeping with the rest of the author\u2019s work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBooks have editors \u2014 they read the manuscript and they use their common sense,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t do it any more formally but rely on authors to be honest and editors to see if something is not quite right. We don\u2019t have a piece of software that checks as some universities do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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German politician Annalena Baerbock was accused of copying parts of her book <\/span> \u00a9 Annegret Hilse\/Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Publishers also strike deals that contractually put the responsibility for fact checking on the author. An editorial director at a leading publishing house in the UK said an extra check for plagiarism can be requested when a book goes through its legal read.<\/p>\n

\u201cContracts tend to have a clause stating that the author warrants that the work is wholly original and written by said author, apart from when otherwise stated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Groom, a professor of English at the Macau university and researcher on authenticity and forgery who has written eight books, said: \u201cAn author is expected to check everything, not just by their readers but also by the publishers themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jocelyn Hargrave, editor of Publishing Research Quarterly and lecturer in publishing at the Derby university, said the tight schedules of the publishing systems meant that \u201cpressure on editors to get their work out is greater\u201d.<\/p>\n

She described the Reeves\u2019s book as an \u201cunfortunate, but instructive, reality check\u201d, adding: \u201cPlagiarism detection softwares are out there, but it often is a very costly exercise and it takes quite a lot of time. If the publishing schedule allows for that extra time, then those checks may occur, but usually through the manual checks, peer review, and the work that the publisher does with the author.\u201d<\/p>\n

Groom said that plagiarism checking software was not perfect \u201cbut it\u2019s a very helpful way of indicating whether work has been lifted without acknowledgment. I don\u2019t think publishers do put authors through Turnitin (a document plagiarism scanner) \u2014 and maybe they should\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said things will only get trickier with the rise of AI, which can scan and reproduce huge volumes of work. <\/p>\n

But he added that publishers should be able to have confidence in the integrity of their writers. \u201cThey\u2019re not students.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Conservatives on Thursday used the controversy to attack Reeves, who has worked with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to try and restore the party\u2019s reputation for economic competence and win over business.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs always Sir Keir and his Wikipedia shadow chancellor will take the easy way out every time,\u201d said a party social media ad. <\/p>\n

Plagiarism has been a long standing problem in political publishing. Stefan Weber, a \u201cplagiarism assessor\u201d, accused German politician Annalena Baerbock of copying parts of the book Now. How We Renew Our Country<\/em>, published by Ullstein Verlag.<\/p>\n

In a blog published in September 2021, Weber wrote that Baerbock had lifted passages from academics, government agencies and newspaper articles. He uploaded a digital version to Turnitin and identified a dozen copied passages.<\/p>\n

Her lawyer rejected the accusation on her behalf. <\/p>\n

Weber has also accused other European politicians of lifting material in books and dissertations they have published.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea why publishers don\u2019t check their work with Turnitin. There is still not enough consciousness [of] this problem,\u201d he said. \u201cPlagiarism is rather widespread. There must be consequences for the writer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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