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"Academic Honesty" from The University of Chicago Student Manual of University Policies and Regulations Discipline and Academic Integrity from the Office of the Dean of Students in The College Sources:
Their Use and Acknowledgment from Dartmouth College "What Should I Do When I Suspect Plagiarism, " in Teaching at Chicago: A Collection of Readings and Practical Advice for Beginning Teachers from the Center for Teaching and Learning Library Instruction and Plagiarism Prevention Information Literacy and the Library An important aspect of the Library's educational mission is to promote and develop informational literacy in its users. Information literacy, in general, is the ability to identify, locate, use and interpret information effectively.
Many students, even though well-versed in locating information, may not be aware of how to use information fairly and cite resources accurately in their research projects. While students may not hesitate in citing a book or an article source, they may be unaware they need to also cite web resources. Others may be unclear on how to cite a resource that they have located on a Library database. Students who are normally diligent using parenthetical citations may find themselves confused and frustrated when told to use citation style they are unfamiliar with and may become lax in their citing. However, all of these factors can change when we emphasize the reasons why it is important to record and cite the information sources they use in their research. Library Instruction and Information Literacy The Library can play an important role in educating students on the fair use of information.. We can teach students research skills that emphasize the importance of keeping good records of where and how you located a resource in order to be able to cite it correctly in a paper or report. Our instruction librarians are more than happy to work with you to develop an instruction session that fits your course's needs. We also provide such instruction in the many workshops we offer each quarter, but these are more general in focus. Our Library web site also provides guides on the research process and on using citation style manuals for students who like to learn at their own convenience. Students can also take advantage of the resources listed on their Class Pages. EndNote Citation Management Software The Library offers courses on using EndNote citation management software, a program that helps students import references from our many bibliographic databases. EndNote makes citing resources in footnotes and bibliographies easy for the student. EndNote may be especially helpful for students working on extensive research projects where they use many sources. Detecting Plagiarism: Searching Tips and Library Services Searching the Web If you are looking for documents that contain a certain passage, try using the advanced search screen on your search engine of choice. Most tools, like Google or Lycos, provide the option of phrase searching. Library Full-Text Databases An increasing number of resources available through the Library's web site have full-text online. While they are extremely convenient and helpful, they often make it easier to plagiarize. If you would like to search for a passage in a full-text database, keep in mind that there are two types of full-text resources available through our Library databases. In some full-text databases where articles are in pdf format, the full-text searching capability may be limited. HTML full-text resources are somewhat easier to search. The best type of search to use if you suspect a phrase is copied is to use an alphabetical or exact phrase search. Go to the advanced search screen of the database to see what options are available. The way to provide a phrase search can vary from database to database. If you are unsure, check the "Help" features of the database or contact your reference librarian. Once you are in an article, you can also use the "Find" feature under the Edit menu on your browser. Purchased Papers Plagiarism is big business. There are plenty of sites on the Internet offering to provide papers on a variety of topics. Some sites offer this "service" for free, but most come with a price. Unfortunately, there are too many of these services to list. But locating them is very simple, often as easy as going to the search engine of your choice and typing in "term papers" or "free term papers." You will most likely find plenty of sites to chose from. The University's Humanities Research Computing Center has a helpful plagiarism site listing some services that you can use to detect if a student has a purchased paper. They also provide some additional web searching tips for detecting plagiarism. . How the Library Can Help Librarians can assist you by confirming citations or help you with searching our full-text resources for passages that you fear may be plagiarized on a consultation basis. This service is available Monday-Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:00 p.m. If you are interested in using this service, please feel free to contact:
Learning More: Plagiarism Resources Print Resources Available at Regenstein Library Decoo, Wilfried and Jozef Colpaert. Crisis on campus : confronting academic misconduct. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.
Harris, Robert A. The plagiarism handbook : strategies for preventing, detecting, and dealing with plagiarism. Los Angeles: Pyrczak Publishing, 2001.
Buranene, Lise and Alice M. Roy, eds. Perspectives on plagiarism and intellectual property in a postmodern world. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1999.
LaFollette, Marcel C. Stealing into print : fraud, plagiarism,
and misconduct in scientific publishing. Berkeley : University of California
Press, 1992.
Lathrop, Ann. Student cheating and plagiarism in the Internet
era : a wake-up call. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 2000.
Web Sites A
Faculty Guide to Cyber Plagiarism University of Alberta PlagiarizeddotCom:
The Instructor's Guide to the Internet Additional Information Interested in learning more about plagiarism, academic honesty, and other related issues? The Library has many more resources that may be of assistance. Feel free to contact your Reference Librarian. We'll be happy to help you find the books, articles, and other materials that you need. |
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