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PLAGIARISM, CHEATING, LYING, STEALING
- The basic outline of Cornell's stance on this matter is presented in the Code of Academic Integrity.
- A thorough list of plagiarism resources may allow you to explore this subject further.
- If you are on the trail of a scoundrel, the folks at PLAGIARISM.ORG are there to assist you. In their words:
If you are a professor who is concerned about the originality of work turned
in by students in your course, our automated online plagiarism detection
service will aid you in your endeavor to maintain the highest level of quality in
your teaching. If you are a author or student who wants to protect your work
from potential copy and plagiarism, and ensure that your writing is never
mistakenly pinpointed as a plagiarized paper, we will make certain that you
can.Copyright 1999 iParadigms, Inc. All rights reserved.
- Want to avoid plagiarism? Consult "How not to Plagiarize" from the University of Toronto's excellent web site, OR
- investigate the meaning of "FAIR USE" (from Stanford).
- Copyright procedures, regulations and issues are detailed at the Copyright Office. SPiDERDAWG has found that this Library of Congress site has been pokey or out-of-service on some occasions. According to Syllabus' (http:www.syllabus.com)April 1999 paper issue (v.12 no.8 p.50), "There is a method to obtain Copyright Office materials via e-mail. Simply send a message to 'LISTSERV@RS8.loc.gov'...to subscribe to the Newsnet Issue services (put in the body of the message 'Subscribe USCopyright')." To reach the Copyright Office by phone, dial 202-707-3000 or fax 202-707-2600.
- Thinking of doing some original writing and posting it on the Web? The Franklin Pierce Law Center has a great resource:Copyright for Computer Authors by Thomas G. Field.
- Get the Basic Facts About Trademarks directly from the US Patent and Trademark Office.
- Consult FINDLAW for further legal information. [SPiDERDAWG is not qualified to give you legal advice and will not answer legal questions. New York residents in need of a lawyer can contact the New York State Bar Association for information about how to obtain local legal advice. Other US citizens should contact their local or state Bar Association.]
BASIC REFERENCE MATERIALS
The best compilation of reference resources that I have seen so far is the Virtual Reference Desk. There is so much here, I haven't had time to investigate it all!
STYLE GUIDES FOR ELECTRONIC and OTHER RESOURCES
- A top-notch general citation guide with a thorough explanation of the whole concept is Dartmouth's "Sources". Their introduction states:
THIS WEB SITE, prepared for the instruction and use of
Dartmouth undergraduate students, has two purposes. First, it
provides a rationale for why, and offers principles for
determining when and how, you should cite sources. As such,
Sources can be a convenient handbook for you to consult while
preparing scholarly work for your classes. Second, it presents a
code of scholarly ethics, derived from Dartmouth's Academic
Honor Principle, concerning plagiarism. The academic
community at Dartmouth and elsewhere considers citational
omission to be a dishonest presentation of work, a theft of
intellectual property for which someone else deserves credit.
The practices of acknowledgment outlined in Sources help to
preserve both the integrity and vitality of our scholarly
enterprise.
Sources first appeared in 1960. Prepared by a dean and
several English professors, it described a world of printed
sources, in which the footnote reigned. In 1987, a diverse group
of Dartmouth faculty revised the booklet, now privileging the
parenthetical format of citation and including a wider palette of
sources in its examples. In the mid-1990s, examples for
electronic sources entered the booklet. This current edition
again revises the material by offering more examples of citation
formats and styles and thereby reflecting the range of writing
practices across the scholarly disciplines. However, the section
on plagiarism — a foundation for our academic life — has
remained essentially unchanged in all versions of Sources since
1960. Copyright © 1998 Trustees of Dartmouth College
- American Psychological Association (APA) Guide to citing information from the Internet and the World Wide Web
- Bedford St. Martin's "Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Sources"
- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions'"Citation Guides for Electronic Documents"
BASIC INTERNET CONCEPTS
- What's in a "URL" (Universal Resource Locator; i.e.: http://www.webspawner.com/users/SPiDERDAWG)? This is a piece of "Introduction to HTML" © 1994-1998 by Ian Graham-Last Update: 5 January 1998.
- So who owns this site, anyway? Find out with Whois database of domain registrants.
Updated 04/22/2003: URLs corrected
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