{"id":109887,"date":"2020-02-27T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=109887"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:43","slug":"scientists-call-for-second-opinion-in-plagiarism-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/02\/27\/scientists-call-for-second-opinion-in-plagiarism-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics call for second opinion in plagiarism case Van den Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventy academics have written a letter to the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), in which they ask the administrators to revisit their judgement in the plagiarism case involving former UvA rector and ESHCC dean Dymph van den Boom. In it, they refer to ‘academic class justice: a rector is permitted to copy-paste without citing sources; students aren\u2019t.’<\/p>\n

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Last spring an article in NRC Handelsblad<\/em> accused Dymph van den Boom of committing plagiarism in her dissertation and various dies<\/em> orations held during her term as UvA rector. After looking into the matter, an independent integrity commission made up of Professors Ton Hol (Utrecht) and Marc Loth (Tilburg) concluded<\/a>\u00a0in December that Van den Boom\u2019s actions did not amount to plagiarism. Among other things, the commission wrote in its final report<\/a> that \u201calthough it is not always made clear \u2013 or sufficiently clear \u2013 in the dissertation which sections of text were written by the author and which have been taken from other people\u2019s work, it is sufficiently clear throughout that the author is describing others\u2019 contributions and has not appropriated and presented them as her own work.\u201d The Executive Board of the UvA adopted this counsel<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n\n\t

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