Plagiarism in five universities in Mozambique: Magnitude, detection techniques, and control measures

Table 3 Selection methods for theses and end-of-course monographs

Institution	Total theses	Full theses		Partial copies
	Total theses	n°	Selection method	n°	Selection method
UP	24	7	Selected by librarian	17	Systematic sample²
ISCTEM	23	0	n.a.	23	Systematic sample
UPol/ISPU	21	3	Substitution from Internet¹	18	Systematic sample
USTM	25	22	Systematic sample from subset of library’s recent CDs	3	Systematic sample³
UEM linguistics	20	1	Substitution from Internet¹	19	Systematic sample from dept. archives
UEM economics	12	1	Full OCR from main library	11	Entire collection from main library
UEM education	21	2	Substitution from Internet¹	19	Entire collection from main library
UEM sociology	4	0	n.a.	4	Entire collection from main library
Total	150	33	n.a.	117	n.a.

¹full theses or end-of-course monographs found on the Internet and substituted for the originally selected partial copies
²For systematic sampling, the number of available theses was divided by the target number of theses (±20) to calculate the desired selection interval, S (e.g., every third thesis); the first thesis to be chosen was randomly selected within that value; and then every S^th thesis was randomly selected. Upon examination, many theses were outside the target years or from other institutions and were, hence, substituted.
³ After selecting a few hardbound theses systematically, the librarian informed us that many theses were available on CDs. Thereafter the selections came from these.

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