Seminarium Lic or Mag

What to do: write in one's own words

• WikipediaEn:Scientific_writing
• A&A: https://www.aanda.org/author-information
  • https://www.aanda.org/author-information/language-editing/1-introduction
  • ...
  • https://www.aanda.org/author-information/language-editing/7-clarity-and-precision

What not to do: copy/paste/modify someone else's words

• Oxford definition: https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/skills/plagiarism

exceptions

• free-licensed material: CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, other CC licences, GPL, ...
• PL: Polish equivalent of "public domain": WikipediaPl:Domena_publiczna#Domena_publiczna_w_Polsce

When is a journal serious?

• Check with your supervisor/colleagues for the journal's reputation
• Check archival lists of predatory journals at WikipediaEn:Predatory_open_access_publishing#External_links - but after 2017 these might not be frequently updated - read the full Wikipedia article
• Experiments showing low (nonsensical) journal standards: WikipediaEn:List_of_scholarly_publishing_stings