The phenomenon of "copy-paste" in the academic publications on lifelong learning and continuing education

the article addresses the issue of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, recycling fraud in research on lifelong learning and continuing education. The author introduces the term «copy-paste» and its usage in relation to academic publications. The research is based on 500 publications on lifelong learning including 100 texts on non-formal and informal education, which have been published from 2007 to 2017 and are included into the data on Elibrary.ru. The author introduces the classification of the articles, which use ‘copy-paste’: 1) articles-compilations, 2) articles-abstracts, 3) article with elements of copy-paste. The publication includes a number of examples illustrating the “copy-paste” phenomenon in academic articles. Finally, the best foreign practices in solving the problem of plagiarism are included.