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Articles
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For Instructors
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Copyright & Intellectual
Freedom
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Plagiarism Detection Tools
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Plagiarism Case Studies
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Additional Plagiarism Resources
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For Students
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Additional Ethics Resources
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Term Paper Examples
Articles
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Actions Do
Speak Louder than Words: Deterring Plagiarism with the Use
of Plagiarism-
Detection Software
http://www.apsanet.org/PS/dec01/braumoeller.cfm
In the spring semester of 2000, Bear Branmoeller, an assistant
professor of government
at Harvard
University and Brian Gaines, an associate professor of political
science at the
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) began their plagiarism study
involving
UIUC students
taking Political Science 100: Introduction to Political Science.
This report
details
Branmoeller and Gaines' experience with the Essay Verification
Engine, EVE,
which they used
to detect instances of plagiarism among the 180 students
studied.
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Apathy in
Online Education
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0210010171oct01,0,6409570.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed
David McGrath, a composition instructor at College of DuPage who
teaches both online
and
face-to-face classes, discusses factors that increase the
potential for cheating with
online courses
in this October 1, 2002 issue of the Chicago Tribune. McGrath
indicates
that certain
things, like plagiarism, can be detected in face-to-face
meetings with students
that cannot be
detected when students merely have a “digital identity”.
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Busting the New
Breed of Plagiarist
http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/writers/bugeja1.htm
Michael Bugeja, special assistant to the President at Ohio
University and creator of
Your Path, a
character development program, originally published in the
September 2000
issue of The
Writer's Chronicle. Bugeja believes that some students who
commit acts of
online
plagiarism have very predictable patterns of cheating. He offers
5 strategies to
help
instructors catch plagiarism.
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The Campaign
Against Plagiarism: Academic Initiatives
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/instruct/LIRT/2002/march02.pdf
(p. 12)
Recent plagiarism cases involving well-known individuals such as
Doris Kearns
Goodwin and
Stephen Ambrose have pointed the spotlight on this issue that
continues
to plague those
in higher education. Vibiana Bowman, a reference librarian at
Rutgers
University
explores this issue in her article that appears in the March
2002 issue of LIRT
News.
In it, she discusses projects at Rutgers and other academic
institutions that are
working to
combat cases of plagiarism. Plagiarism detection software
packages used
by many
institutions are also presented.
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Can Tech Detect
College Cheaters?
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-876788.html
Many privately held plagiarism software companies, like
Word Check Systems, report that
business has
been very good for them lately. Margaret Kane discusses the
methods used
by some of
these plagiarism detection services and ways students are able
to get around
them. One
question raised in this article is whether we live in a culture
that promotes a cheating mentality.
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Copycats Have
High-Tech Foe: Software Can Spot Plagiarism
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/01/29/DD80192.DTL
Historians were the first group to use software detection
devices to catch cases of plagiarism.
This article
from the January 29, 2002 issue of the San Francisco
Chronicle discusses
how people were
less than enthusiastic about these tools in 1991, but they are
now
used
extensively. Descriptions of some of the recent detection
devices are also provided.
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Dealing with
Plagiarists
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/05/2002051401c.htm
What would you do if you discovered one of your students
plagiarized a paper? Would you
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Fail her for the course?
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Fail the paper but allow her to remain in the course, on the
condition that she signs an acknowledgment of the plagiarism
that will remain in her file until graduation?
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Give her the opportunity to rewrite the paper, and penalize the
final grade by a full letter?
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Don't Blame the
Internet for Plagiarism
http://www.edweek.org/ew/1998/14freed.h18
Are teachers and not the Internet to blame for students turning
in plagiarized work?
Morris Freedman, Professor Emeritus at the University of
Maryland at College Park,
states that advances in technology bring new challenges. He
explores the types of papers
students purchase from
paper sites and believes that instructors who keep up in their
fields
should be able
to detect plagiarized assignments. The following
commentaries on
this Education Week piece are also
available:
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Download. Steal. Copy. Cheating at the University
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v
/ART/2001/11/27/3c03502bad345?in_archive=1
Students are looking more and more to online research paper site
as a way of
producing a
term paper for class. This article that appeared in the November
21,
2001 issue of
the Daily Pennsylvanian discusses this trend among high
school
and college
students and steps taken to combat this issue.
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E-Cheating--Combating a 21st Century Challenge
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A3724.cfm
When Kim McMurty started teaching college English a few years
ago, she never
envisioned her
students using the Internet to help them cheat in her class.
McMurty
takes a look at
the frequency of plagiarism as well as ways students use the
Internet
to cheat. She
also provides eight suggestions to instructors on how to combat
e-cheating in
their classes.
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A Generation of
Cheaters
http://www.asbj.com/199904/0499coverstory.html
There are a growing number of students desperate for better
grades who think
cheating is not
a big deal. Some believe that it's not the cheating that's
alarming,
even though
that is becoming more and more of an issue, but the attitudes of
students today
about cheating. This cover story article discusses the growing
problem
of cheating in
higher education, and the lack of guilt by students who believe
cheating
is merely a
survival tactic in an increasingly competitive world.
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Got Cheaters?
Ask New Questions
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54996,00.html
This brief article by Dustin Goot that appeared in the September
10, 2002 issue of
Wired is
about James McKenzie who claims that students are not completely
to
blame for the
increase in plagiarism. McKenzie states that instructors need to
differentiate
between trivial and meaningful research assignments in their
classes.
Links to other
Wired articles on plagiarism are also presented at this
site.
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How to Handle
Cyber-Sloth in Academe
http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i17/17b01401.htm
Early in his career, Andrew Carnie, an assistant professor of
linguistics at the
University of Arizona and moderator of the e-list called
Linguist
List (http://www.linguistlist.org),
would receive questions from students in need
of
information for assignments. Initially, he would answer these
requests,
but now
he realizes that high school students and undergrads suffer from
a
laziness
condition called "cyber-sloth".
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The Internet
Gives College Cheaters a High-Tech Edge
http://www.sltrib.com/2002/Nov/11182002/utah/17842.htm
Surveys show that academic dishonesty on college campuses is on
the rise.
The
November 18, 2002 article from the Salt Lake Tribune
discusses why
this is a
growing phenomenon and how teachers are fighting back.
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Is Honor Up for
Grabs? Education Isn't About Surveillance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A80312-2001May26?language=printer
Robert Boynton, who teaches magazine journalism at New York
University, wrote
this Washington Post.com article that
discusses the plagiarism case at the
University of
Virginia and examines whether or not an honor code deters
cheating.
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Jane Eyre, To
Go
http://dir.salon.com/it/career/1998/11/13career.html
When Victoria Olsen went online in search of "term papers" that
her students could find to fulfill an assignment in her
Victorian Literature class at Stanford, her searches yielded
nothing that was applicable to particular assignment she
designed. However, she did find plenty of papers about Jane Eyre
that discussed everything from nature to "Jane-as-feminist".
Victoria discusses her online "adventure" and the changes that
have taken place since the first term paper company (SchoolSucks.com)
came on the scene in 1996.
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Many on Campus
Disdain Historian's Practice
http://www.public.asu.edu/~icprv/courses/hst498/AmbrNYT.html
This article by Diana Jean Schemo was originally published in
the January 15, 2002 issue of The New York Times and
discusses the debates on many college campuses that followed the
Stephen Ambrose plagiarism scandal. Some professors indicated
that Ambrose's books would no longer have a place on their
syllabi, while others stated they would continue to use his
works.
Brian Martin
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Plagiarism: A Misplaced Emphasis
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/94jie.html
Brian Martin, an associate professor in Science, Technology &
Society at the University of Wollongong (Australia) examines
competitive and institutionalized plagiarism, and discusses
whether or not too much emphasis is being placed on the wrong
type of plagiarism. This article originally appeared in The
Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1994.
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Plagiarism by University Students; The Problem and Some
Proposals
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/92tert.html
This article by Brian Martin, originally published in
Tertangala (University of Wollongong Students'
Representative Council) July 20-August 3, 1992, takes a look at
what types things are considered to be acts of plagiarism. He
also discussed a number of things that can be done to reduce the
number of plagiarism cases.
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The New
Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an
Electronic Age
http://www.fno.org/may98/cov98may.html
Jamie McKenzie, editor of the Webzine From Now On: The
Educational Technology Journal, offers 7 "antidotes"
designed to stop the increasing trend of what McKenzie calls the
"new plagiarism" before it becomes an academic epidemic.
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Physicist in
India Accused of Plagiarism
(must be subscribed to The Chronicle of Higher Education
to access)
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i09/09a04401.htm
A Web site at
http://www.geocities.com/physics_plagiarism
accuses Balwant Singh Rajput, the Vice Chancellor of Kumaun
University (India) of plagiarizing research by foreign authors.
Scientists charge that Rajput has co-written four papers whose
contents have been taken directly from international journals.
The Web site posts a side-by-side comparison of Rajput's paper
with one written by Stanford physicist, Renata Kallosh for
comparison of certain passages believed to be plagiarized.
Rajput denies the allegations.
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Plagiarism Case
Bedevils Kansas School - March 19, 2002
http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/03/19/plagiarism.dispute.ap/index.html
Christine Pelton, a biology teacher at Pelton High School, gave
zeros to a group of twenty-eight students who cheated on an
assignment for her class. This CNN article discusses what
happened after the school board overturned Pelton's decision.
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A Plagiarism
Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i36/36a03701.htm
Andrea Foster discusses in this May 17, 2002 Chronicle of
Higher Education article whether some plagiarism detection
services are violating students' legal rights. One service of
particular concern is Turnitin (http://www.turnitin.com).
Part of the controversies surrounds the fact that Turnitin keeps
papers submitted by professors in order to increase the size of
their database. Many other detection services merely run papers
through a computer program that checks for copied materials off
the Internet.
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Plagiarism
in the News
http://www.bridgewater.edu/WritingCenter/Workshops/PlagiarismCases.htm
The Bridgewater College (VA) Online Writing Lab has designed
this site to help foster discussions on the ethical use of
sources by writers. Numerous articles on plagiarism issues,
including the Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose scandals,
have been compiled and posted at this site by Lab staff.
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Playing Dirty
in the War on Plagiarism
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/08/2002081501c.htm
Plagiarism is a growing problem on today's college campuses.
Many think technology is at least partially to blame for this
concerning trend. Of even bigger concern, however, is whether
students even know that acts of plagiarism are wrong. Vincent
Moore, an assistant professor at Tiffin University, discusses
this issue in the context of his experiences in dealing or not
dealing with plagiarism.
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Prominent
Physicist Fired for Faking Data
http://www.drproctor.com/os/latimesschon.htm
Jan Hendrick Schon, a scientist with expertise in
superconductivity and molecular scale electronics, was fired
from Bell Labs for falsifying data over a 4 year period. A panel
appointed by Bell Labs found Schon misrepresented data results
16 times. Some of the data had been published in journals such
as
Science
and
Nature.
This
September 26,
2002 article also briefly discusses the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory case involving Victor Ninov and his claims
to have discovered the 118th element.
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Rebecca Moore
Howard--Articles
http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/articles.html
Rebecca Moore Howard, Associate Professor of Writing & Rhetoric
and Writing Program Director at Syracuse University, is one of
the most well-known researchers in the area of composition and
plagiarism. This site provides access to a number of Howard's
articles on the topic of plagiarism.
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Students
Plagiarize Less than Many Think, a New Study Finds
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002020101t.htm
A new study published in the May/June 2002 issue of the
Journal of College Student Development finds that incidents
of online plagiarism are as rampant as one would believe. Two
professors at the Rochester Institute of Technology found that
students believe that more plagiarism is occurring than they
report actually doing. In fact, the professors found that
reported cases of online plagiarism are comparable to studies
done years ago on paper and book plagiarism.
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Survey: Many
Students Say Cheating's OK
http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/04/05/highschool.cheating/index.html
A survey done by Rutgers' Management Education Center found that
"of 4,500 high school students, 75% of them engage in serious
cheating". Many of these students do not consider these acts of
plagiarism to be wrong. This CNN article takes a look at this
student and things that are being done to reverse this
situation.
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Term Paper
Mills, Anti-Plagiarism Tools, and Academic Integrity
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0153.pdf
In light of the University of Virginia plagiarism scandal,
cheating and academic integrity issues have coming into the
forefront. Mark Groark, Diana Oblinger and Miranda Choa take a
look at terms paper sites, academic integrity policies, tools to
insure academic integrity, and they discuss what all these
things mean for institutions.
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Thin Line
Splits Cheating, Smarts
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54963,00.html
Google Answers, a questions & answer service provided by 500
freelance researchers often struggle with the fine line between
appropriate and inappropriate uses of the Internet. This
September 10, 2002 Wired article discusses the
difficulties surrounding issues involving plagiarism and how
even teachers and student often disagree on what constitutes
cheating.
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TNC: The New
Curriculum
http://www.newcurriculum.com/index.php
John
Raymond, an educational consultant from Connecticut, started
TNC: The New Curriculum in the spring of 2001. The November
11, 2002 issue of this biweekly e-newsletter is devoted to the
topic of Internet-based plagiarism, and addresses the following
questions:
With
plagiarism on the rise in our schools and colleges, what is
to be done?
Annotated links to helpful plagiarism sites are also provided.
University of
Virginia
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Technology Exposes Cheating at U-VA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A638-2001May8¬Found=true
Lou Bloomfield suspected students in his University of Virginia
introductory physics classes were cheating on their papers so he
developed a computer database to help him sniff out plagiarism.
His discovery sparked the largest investigation on plagiarism
and 122 students faced expulsion. This Washington Post.com
article takes a look at this case, and discusses whether
software designed to detect plagiarism has finally caught up
with the plagiarists.
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University of Virginia Hit by Scandal Over Cheating
http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/innews/may01/cheating.html
This May 10, 2001 New York Times article about the 122
accused of cheating in a
University of Virginia
introductory physics class reignited interest in plagiarism
cases.
University of
Virginia: Recent Updates
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Up to 14% of
Australian University Students May Be Plagiarizing from Web,
Study Suggests
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/11/2002112001t.htm
A study, commissioned by six Australian universities, determined
that up to 14% of Australian students copied material from the
Web for their class assignments. CAVAL, Cooperative Action among
Victorian Academic Libraries, used Turnitin.com to analyze 1,925
essays from different students, and this November 20, 2002
article from The Chronicle of Higher Education details
the study and its findings.
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The Web's
Plagiarism Police
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/14/plagiarism/print.html
Andy Dehnart researched this piece for Salon by running his
30-page senior thesis through a plagiarism testing service.
After his paper had been analyzed, he discovered that he was a
plagiarist. He took time to investigate the charges made by this
service and discovered that an error had been made. Dehnart
examines plagiarism detection tools, and points out that they
are not going to solve all plagiarism issues.
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What is
Plagiarism?
http://www.public.asu.edu/~icprv/courses/hst498/plagiarism_def.html
The History News Network staff has posted three different
definitions of plagiarism provided by the American Historical
Association, Modern Language Association and the American
Psychological Association.
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Where Cheaters
Often Prosper
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54571,00.html
Even in the aftermath of the dot.com bust, online term paper
sites continue to prosper, and they show no signs of slowing
down. This August 26, 2002 Wired article discusses the
success of term paper sites and how many of the visitors to
these sites are teachers. One interesting note is that some of
the teachers visiting these term paper sites are submitting
resumes to be freelance term paper writers.
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With Cheating
on the Rise, More Colleges are Turning to Honor Codes
(free registration to the
New York Times is required)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/02/education/02HONO.html
In an
attempt to deter cheating, some colleges have resorted to Web
search engines and detection software devices to catch students
who plagiarize class assignments. Other institutions, however,
have gone one step farther and have started looking at their
university's honor code. This November 2, 2002 article from
The New York Times takes a look at institutions like Duke,
the University of Virginia and other who are implementing new
honor codes to an attempt to improve academic integrity.
Copyright & Intellectual
Freedom
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10 Big Myths
about Copyright Explained
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Brad Templeton, founder of ClariNet Communications Corp and
Chairman of the Board of Electrical Frontier Foundation
discusses myths surrounding copyright like, "If it doesn't have
a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted." And "My posting was
just fair use!"
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A Bookworm's
Battle:
Eric Eldred, Inspired by the Internet, Takes a Copyright Case
to the Supreme Court
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i09/09a03501.htm
What
began in 1995 as a Web site designed to help his triplet
daughters decipher "The Scarlet Letter" for their middle school
class has now placed Eric Eldred at the forefront of a
"high-profile" court case (Eldred v. Ashcroft). Eldred, scholars
and library organizations question the constitutionality of the
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which adds 20 years to
copyright protection.
Additional details about Eldred
v. Ashcroft can be found at
http://llr.lls.edu/.
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Copyright &
Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu
This site, sponsored by the Council on Library Resources,
FindLaw Internet Legal Resources and the Stanford University
Libraries & Academic Information Resources, has copyright
information links to primary materials, current legislation,
resources on the Internet and an overview of copyright law.
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Copyright as
Cudgel
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm
Siva Vaidhyanathan, an assistant professor of culture and
communication at New York University discusses issues and
controversies surrounding the Digital Millennium Act, how it has
been a failure in terms of copyright and what should be done in
the future in this August 2, 2002 Chronicle of Higher
Education article.
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Copyright
Resources on the Internet
http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/pt2a.htm
The Groton Public Schools (Mystic, CT) developed this site as
part of their "Copyright Implementation Manual" (CIM). Resources
presented at this site are not K-12 specific and are appropriate
for anyone looking for copyright information.
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The Copyright
Web Site
http://www.benedict.com/
The Copyright Web Site has been called the "leading Internet
portal for copyright information", and it provides links to
video, audio and digital resources as well as the basics of
copyright law. Online copyright registration is also available
on this site.
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The Digital
Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age
http://books.nap.edu/html/digital_dilemma/
New technologies and the Internet are changing the ways people
access information. The Digital Dilemma project developed out of
a long interest in legal issues surrounding computer technology
and intellectual property by the Computer Science &
Telecommunications Board (CSTB). The committee charged with
studying this issue and presenting this report was a diverse
group made up of experts from industry, academia and the library
& information science community.
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Electronic
Publishing in Science-Seizing the Moment: Scientists' Authorship
Rights in a Digital Age
http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/epub/epub.htm
Electronic Publishing in Science is a product of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) working in
conjunction with a diverse group of experts in the area of
electronic scientific publishing. This report discusses the
challenges to scientific publishing due to new technologies.
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Fair Use of
Copyrighted Works
http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html
California State University, the State University of New York
and the City University of New York banded together to form
CETUS (Consortium for Educational Technology for University
Systems). This online version of the Fair Use of Copyrighted
Works was put together by the Working Group on Ownership, Legal
Rights of Use and Fair Use.
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FindLaw:
Intellectual Property Law: Copyright
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/23intellectprop/01copyright/
FindLaw claims to be the "highest-trafficked legal Web site" on
the Internet today. Their section on Intellectual Property Law
is a good starting point to locate resources dealing with
copyright, trademarks, and intellectual property.
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Google Web
Directory: Copyrights
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Law/Legal_Information/Intellectual_Property/Copyrights/?tc=1
The
copyright section of the Google Web directory has a plethora of
links related to copyright and intellectual property.
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Intellectual
Property and the National Information Infrastructure
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii
The Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights prepared this
report that examines and analyzes major areas of copyright and
intellectual property issues.
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The
Corruption of the Internet
http://www.techtv.com/bigthinkers/features/story/0,23008,3344681,00.html
"The Corruption of the Internet" featuring Lawrence Lessig was
aired on The Big Thinkers program on Monday, September 2, 2002.
On the program Lessig discusses the future of the Internet and
how its free and open nature is currently being threatened.
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Lawrence Leasing: Home Page
http://www.lessig.org/
Information about Lawrence Lessig, links to his articles about
copyright, and other resources can be found on his home page.
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Lawrence Lessig's Supreme Showdown
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/lessig_pr.html
Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford
University is one of the
chief theorists of cyberlaw. This October 2002 issue of Wired
discusses Lessig's history with cyberlaw, plus the Bono
extension law which will be heard by the Supreme Court in
October 2002.
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University of
Maryland, University College
Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital
Environment (CIP)
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/
The CIP is a good starting point for information on copyright
issues, and their mission is to "provide resources and
information for the higher education community in the areas of
intellectual property, copyright, and the emerging digital
environment". Links to current issues & resources, Intellectual
Property Research and other "hot" news items can be located at
this site.
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University of
Texas System
Copyright Crash Course
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm
The University of Texas System has designed this site primarily
for faculty use. Links to information about copyright basics,
details, outside references and the tutorial are provided. The
tutorial is available at
http://www.lib.utsystem.edu/copyright/.
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Copyright Issues: Multimedia and Internet Resources
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/mmfruse.htm
Georgia Harper, Office of General Counsel for the University of
Texas System, developed this site on copyright issues
surrounding the use and creation of multimedia & Internet
resources. Some of the topics covered by Harper include
ownership, fair use and getting permission.
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Fair
Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/ccmcguid.htm
The guidelines posted on this site were developed during the
CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use process. Preparation of
materials under the guidelines, permitted use, limitations and
when permission is required are some of the topics covered on
this page.
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U.S. Copyright
Office
http://www.loc.gov/copyright
The U.S. Copyright Office site was designed "to serve the
copyright community of creators and users, as well as the
general public". Links are available to the copyright law,
application forms for copyright registration and other
information resources dealing with copyright.
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World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
http://www.wipo.org/
WIPO is an international whose mission is to protect and promote
intellectual property. Currently, 179 states and over 90% of the
world's countries belong to WIPO.
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Yahoo!
Intellectual Property Links
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/law/intellectual_property
Yahoo! has compiled a set of annotated links on intellectual
property, and they are available at this site.
For Instructors
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About
Plagiarism, Pixels and Platitudes
http://www.svsu.edu/~dboehm/pixels.htm
Diane Christian Boehm, Director of Instructional Support
Programs, University Writing Program at Saginaw Valley State
University (Michigan) developed this site with Laura Taggett.
Issues surrounding plagiarism and strategies to combat classroom
cheating are discussed.
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Academic
Integrity at Princeton
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/index.html
Princeton University has created this "booklet" that contains
articles addressing topics like the challenge of original work,
when to cite sources, examples of plagiarism and the question of
collaboration.
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Anti-Plagiarism
Strategies
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
Robert Harris, an educator with over 25 years of college and
university teaching experience, has developed this site that
discusses strategies to help increase plagiarism awareness, as
well as strategies and prevention tips.
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Beating
e-Cheating: Strategies for Discouraging Internet Plagiarism
http://www.uwsa.edu/ttt/articles/plag.htm
Tammy Kempfert, Editor of Teaching with Technology Today,
discusses findings surrounding the plagiarism. She presents the
findings and thoughts on some experts in this area.
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Bedford
Workshops on Teaching Writing Online: Plagiarism
http://bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/workshops/plagiarism.htm
Nick Carbone, a new media consultant at Bedford/St. Martins,
presented the workshop materials and outlines found at this
site. These materials are available for "any composition
instructor or program to use and adopt for in-house training,
conference workshops, freely distributed newsletters and other
professional outreach or teaching purposes". Other sections of
this site to consult for plagiarism information include:
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Center for
Academic Integrity (CAI)
http://www.academicintegrity.org/
The Center for Academic Integrity is affiliated with the Kenan
Institute of Ethics (http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/links9.asp),
and their mission is "to identify and affirm the values of
academic integrity and to promote their achievement in
practice".
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Cheating,
Plagiarism (and Other Questionable Practices): The Internet and
Other Electronic Resources
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/plag.htm
Phyllis Holman Weisbard, a University of Wisconsin System
Women's Studies Librarian, has presented her research on
Internet plagiarism nationally. Her site contains resources on
topics such as term paper sites, plagiarism detectors and ways
to detect plagiarism.
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Coastal
Carolina University-Teaching Effectiveness Seminar
Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You
http://www.coastal.edu/library/papermil.htm
Margaret Fain and Peggy Bates, librarians at Coastal
Carolina University, have
posted this abbreviate version of their presentation for the
Teaching Effectiveness Seminar. Cheating 101 was designed to
help faculty combat plagiarism in their classes. Tips on how to
locate a paper mill and how to detect and track down papers are
a few of the topics discussed.
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Detecting Plagiarized Papers
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