About the phenomenon of auto plagiarism in the context of the methodology of scientific creativity

The article focuses on auto plagiarism as a new phenomenon in Russian social and human sciences. Underlining its necessity and, to a certain extent, utility, at the same time the author attempts to substantiate the thesis that the technology of anti-plagiarism cannot be mechanically transferred to auto-plagiarism without the corresponding amendments. Here it is much more difficult than in the anti-plagiarism to define the devil, which is in the details. The author substantiates the thesis, according to which auto plagiarism, in one form or another, touches upon some important aspects relating to the nature, methodology, methods, tools and techniques of scientific creativity, which involve the use of materials, developments, ideas in previously published works of the same author. This formulation of the question is explained by the fact that the seeds of new trends, developments, ideas, meanings, perspectives are often in one form or another incorporated in the already published works of the respective author.