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Plagiarism and Copyright Links

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
An overview of plagiarism, including prevention and detection strategies. By Dr. Robert A. Harris, Ph.D.

Copyright Primer
Flash enabled interactive tutorial providing illustrative scenarios and links to additional resources. Upon completion users are e-mailed a transcript of their responses to the scenarios. From the Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College, 2002.

Cyberplagiarism: Detection and Prevention
Presents items in the news, possible causes of plagiarism, detection & prevention tools, policies, a section for students, and allows faculty to create plagiarism quizzes to test students' knowledge of plagiarism. From Pennsylvania State University.

Know Your Copy Rights - Resources for Teaching Faculty
From the Association of Research Libraries, this site Includes a six-page brochure that covers: "fair use, the advantage of linking to instead of copying works, and special provisions for displaying or performing works in classes. The brochure also includes a one-page chart that highlights 24 situations when various categories of works can be used."

Links to Copyright and Plagiarism Info
Provided by Edison Community College Library, Piqua, OH

The Owl at Purdue: Avoiding Plagiarism
Presents information on avoiding plagiarism and shows circumstances when documentation is necessary. Also provides a plagiarism exercise for students and shows a graph of deliberate plagiarism and possible accidental plagiarism. From Purdue University.

Plagiarism
A collection of links to plagiarism detection services, evaluation of detection services and methods, reports on incidences and prevalence, academic integrity issues, and a section on developing assignments to prevent plagiarism. From the University of Maryland University College, Center for Intellectual Property.

Plagiarism and Detection Services - Articles in Academic Search Premier
For articles about Turnitin.com and other plagiarism detection services, perform a search in Academic Search Premier. Use the search term "turnitin.com" or "plagiarism detection" and check Full Text box.

Plagiarism: Its Nature and Consequences
A helpful site for students, including definitions of plagiarism, guides to proper citations, and tips to avoid plagiarism. From Duke University Library's Guide to Library Research.

Plagiarism Stoppers:  A Teacher's Guide
"Places to go for help with student plagiarism, how to identify it, what to do when it happens, how to prevent it."
From Naperville Community Unit School District 203, Naperville, Illinois.

Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory (VAIL)
An Online Tutorial providing an overview of academic integrity concepts and practical tips for avoiding plagiarism. Includes a scored quiz and printable completion certificate. Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College, 2003.

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Suggestions for Successful Internet Assignments

Most students prefer using the Internet for research and recreation. They will spend countless hours searching and surfing. However, they may not completely understand the Internet's strengths and weaknesses as both a research tool and as a general source of information. Here are some suggestions to help you design effective and successful Internet learning experiences.

Provide Guidance
If you know the URL, provide it. This way, students should have no trouble getting to the web site.

Plan Ahead
Check to make sure that the site is still working a few days before giving the assignment. Web pages have a strange way of vanishing without any warning. Alternately, provide several different sites to visit just in case one or two disappear.

Request a Hard (Backup) Copy
Have students make a print copy of the web site (browsers automatically print the date and time of access) or else ask them to note the date and time they used the site. This should help clear up any problems if the information changes all of a sudden, leaving some students with out-of-date material.

Avoid Busywork
Ask students to do more than just fetch something off the Internet. Require them to visit one or more sites or search by topic. You might have them compare or evaluate several similar sites. For a guide to evaluating websites, see The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
If assigning a research project that either wholly or partially includes Internet sources, ask students to include their search strategy as a component of the research project. Request that they analyze methods they used to refine their search and what made the search more and less successful.

Draw on Their Knowledge
When assigning students to create a bibliography of web sites (webliography), ask students to come up with their own method of evaluating and assessing web sources. They could list the criteria they feel is most important in site selection and inclusion.

Don't Assume Student Expertise
Often students cannot always differentiate between advertising and information on a web page. Often students accept any information found on the web at face value. As above, provide them with the tools to evaluate the web sites they do find.

Use Established, Trustworthy Web Guides/Directories
You might want to use the library's Websites by Topic or Research by Course pages as either a starting point for students or else as a link from your online-class web page. Other invaluable web directories include:
Infomine, Librarians Index to the Internet, and the Internet Scout Project.

Inform the Librarians
Let us know about your assignment by completing the Library Assignment Notification Form . This is equally important for both on-campus and distance learning students as we receive many interpretive and procedural questions in person and over the phone.

Let's Work Together
Request an instruction session for your class. Contact Donna Windish (336.633.0204).

Adapted and used by permission: Beck, Susan. "Suggestions for Successful Internet Assignments." The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It’s a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. 1997. http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalsugg.html.

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