BLDEA's College of Nursing, Jamkhandi is committed to maintaining academic integrity and promoting ethical research practices among students and faculty members. The following objectives and guidelines are established to ensure transparency and originality in academic work.

1. To create academic awareness about responsible conduct in research, study, project work, assignments, thesis, and dissertation, and to promote academic integrity by preventing misconduct, including plagiarism, among students, researchers, faculty, and staff of the institution.
2. To develop effective systems for detecting plagiarism and to establish mechanisms that prevent students and faculty from engaging in plagiarism.

The following guidelines must be followed while submitting plagiarism reports generated through Turnitin software at the time of thesis/research submission:

1. All thesis/research work carried out by UG students and faculty must undergo plagiarism checking through Turnitin software.
2. The final plagiarism verification from the library is mandatory to ensure submission of the correct similarity report during thesis submission.
3. A plagiarism certificate duly signed by the Head of the Institution must be obtained.
4. The permissible similarity index is below 15%, as per the norms of RGUHS University.
5. The thesis must include all chapters from the title page to bibliography/references in a single Word or PDF file. Preliminary pages such as declaration, acknowledgement, abstract, list of charts, abbreviations, and table of contents, as well as appendices such as glossary, index, and questionnaire, should be excluded from plagiarism checking.
6. If the similarity percentage exceeds the permitted limit or plagiarized content is identified, the researcher must revise the content under the supervision of the guide to ensure originality.
7. Proper acknowledgement of authors and sources must be made using quotation marks wherever necessary. Uniformity and consistency should be maintained while citing references.
8. An accepted standard referencing style (APA, Vancouver, Chicago Manual, MLA, etc.) must be followed for references and bibliography.
9. A summary of the similarity report will be sent to the researcher's registered email ID. Researchers must contact the concerned library staff to obtain the scanned copy for review and necessary corrections.
10. Plagiarism checking services are not available for non-English (regional languages such as Sanskrit, Kannada, Hindi) language theses.