Articles
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.
Anti-Plagiarism
Experts Raise Questions about Services with Links to Sites
Selling Papers
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031201t.htm
Jeffrey R. Young addresses the issue of plagiarism detection
services, like PlagiServ and EduTie.com having business
connections to term paper sites that sell papers to students.
The
background article, also by Young entitled "The Cat
and Mouse Game of Plagiarism Detection", can be found
at http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i43/43a02601.htm
(must be subscribed to The Chronicle of Higher Education
to access).
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".
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.
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.
Canada's
Simon Fraser U. Suspends 44 Students in Plagiarism Scandal
(must be subscribed to The Chronicle of Higher Education
to access)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002102404n.htm
Forty-four students at Simon Fraser University in British
Columbia who were involved in a plagiarism "scheme"
were suspended after nearly a year long investigation into
allegations of academic dishonesty. Students at the University
who purchased custom designed projects for an economics
assignment were also uncovered during the investigation
and received failing grades for the course.
Can
Tech Detect College Cheaters?
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-876788.html
Many privately held plagiarism software companies, like
WordCheck 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.
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.
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
- Fail
her for the course?
- 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?
- Give
her the opportunity to rewrite the paper, and penalize
the final grade by a full letter?
James
M. Lang, an assistant professor of English at Assumption
College (Worchester, MA) discusses these and what he determined
to be the best solution in his situation: none of the above.
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:
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.
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.
Emory
U. Announces that Michael Bellesiles will Take a Paid Leave
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/08/2002082302n.htm
Michael Bellesiles, a history professor at Emory University,
has been accused of research misconduct in preparing his
controversial book "Arming America: The Origins of
a National Gun Culture" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000). Critics
predict that Bellesiles will not return to teach at Emory.
Update:
Bellesiles Resigns From Emory After University Report
Questions His Research for Book on Guns (must be subscribed
to The Chronicle of Higher Education to access)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002102801n.htm
On Friday, October 25, 2002, Michael Bellesiles, history
professor at Emory University resigned from his position.
It will become effective at the end of December. His resignation
coincided with the release of Emory's investigation report
into the Bellesiles controversy. Findings documented in
the report state that Bellesiles' "carelessness in
the gathering and presentation of archival records"
raised questions about his "scholarly integrity".
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.
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.
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".
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.
Internet
Plagiarism--We All Pay the Price (must be subscribed
to The Chronicle of Higher Education to access)
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i44/44b00501.htm
Ellen Laird, an English instructor at Hudson Valley Community
College, discusses the consequences surrounding an incident
involving one of her "A" students. The student
turned in an essay that Laird thought was even a bit more
advanced than his usual work. After doing a bit of searching
on the Web, this instructor stumbles upon the same paper
at a term paper site.
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.
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.
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
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Professor
Accused of Plagiarism Gets to Keep Her Job (must be
subscribed to The Chronicle of Higher Education to
access)
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i36/36a01401.htm
Mary A. Zey, an ag economics professor at Texas A &
M, College Station, was charged by university official with
committing "flagrant and serious scientific misconduct".
She denies the allegations, and the university has decided
to give her a second chance and not fire her. Now, Zey wants
her reputation restored, and lawsuits may be filed in future
months.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
- Should
we restrict research to papers sources?
- Should
we outlaw the use of the Internet?
Annotated
links to helpful plagiarism sites are also provided.
University
of Virginia
- 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.
- 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Copyright & Intellectual Freedom
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!"
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/.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lawrence
Lessig
- 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.
- Lawrence
Lessig: 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.
- 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.
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.
University
of Texas System
U.S.
Copyright Office
http://www.loc.gov/copyright
The US 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.
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.
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.
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For Instructors
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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".
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.
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.
- Detecting
Plagiarized Papers
http://www.coastal.edu/library/plagiarz.htm
Fain and Bates list 16 different suggestions for detecting
plagiarized papers.
- Easy
Steps to Combating Plagiarism
http://www.coastal.edu/library/easystep.htm
This section of Fain and Bates' presentation for the Teaching
Effectiveness Seminar addresses 7 different ways to reduce
cheating.
Dealing
with Plagiarism
http://library.queensu.ca/inforef/plagindex.htm
Stauffer Library Reference Services at Queens University
(Kingston, Ontario) starts off their site by presenting
an article entitled "The New Plagiarism: Rise of the
'Copy and Paste' Generation" by Cory Laverty. This
site also has information and links to methods for detecting
plagiarism and suggestions on how to structure assignments
that discourage plagiarism.
Deterring
Plagiarism: Some Strategies
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagiar.html
Dr. Margaret Procter, coordinator of writing support at
the University of Toronto, presents her suggestions at this
site on how to reduce plagiarism in the classroom. She has
divided her tips into three sections:
- Make
Assignments an Integral Part of Learning in the Course
- Demonstrate
Your Expectations
- Look
at the Process as well as the Product
Downloadable
Term Papers: What's a Prof to Do?
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecenteach/resources/ideas/term-paper
-download.html
Tom Rocklin who developed this site for the Center for Teaching
at the University of Iowa, discusses issues surrounding
plagiarism and the Internet. He examines term paper sites,
how they threaten the education process and steps instructors
can take to reduce the threat of plagiarism.
Downloading
Detectives--Searching for On-Line Plagiarism
http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/Library/Course/downloading_
detectives_paper.htm
Robin Satterwhite, social science librarian and Marla Gerein,
social sciences academic technology specialist at Colorado
College are the authors of this site. They have analyzed
plagiarism detection sites and provide a summary of their
observations. One thing to note is that a few of the detection
services are no longer in business.
Electronic
Plagiarism Seminar
http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism.htm
Gretchen Pearson, Public Services Librarian and Copyright
Officer at Le Moyne College, has done numerous presentations
on the topic of plagiarism. This site was developed one
of her faculty seminars at Le Moyne in December 1999. Pearson
last updated this site on September 9, 2002.
Faculty:
Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism
http://www.library.dal.ca/how/plagfac.htm
Fran Nowakowski at the Dalhousie University Libraries (Halifax,
Canada) has created this site that has links to resources
on intellectual honesty, assignment design and plagiarism
detection & prevention strategies. The site was last
updated on August 12, 2002.
A
Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism
The University of Alberta Libraries has posted this comprehensive
site designed to help instructors dealing with plagiarism
in their classes. Information available at this site include
resources on why students plagiarize, plagiarism terminology,
preventing, detecting & reporting plagiarism, paper
sites and handouts for students.
Google
Web Directory: Plagiarism
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Educators/
Plagiarism/?tc=1/
Numerous links on plagiarism, detection and prevention are
available at this directory with the help of pages from
the Open Directory project.
Plagiarism:
A Good Practice
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub01/brookes.pdf
This 43 page report by Jude Carroll and Jon Appleton makes
a case for academic institutions redesigning courses and
determining the best ways to inform students about university
regulations regarding plagiarism while also teaching the
skills necessary for proper attribution in research papers.
The authors believe instructors should inform students about
the effects plagiarism may have on their careers later in
life.
Plagiarism
and Anti-Plagiarism
http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/plagiarism598.html
Howard Erhlich, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers
University, discusses what constitutes plagiarism, the dilemma
many instructors face in dealing with cheating and what
can be done to combat this growing crisis. Links on to resources
on how to fight plagiarism as well as a step-by-step guide
on how to detect plagiarism are also provided.
Plagiarism
and the Challenge of Essay Writing: Learning from Our Students
http://www.elon.edu/sullivan/cheatpap.htm
Dr. Janice Newton, Department of Political Science at York
University, discusses four common factors of plagiarism:
- sloppy
research methods
- reliance
on inappropriate reference guides
- misunderstanding
of the logic and rules of referencing
- weak
essay writing skills
Plagiarism
and the Web
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm
Bruce Leland, an English Professor at Western Illinois University
initially prepared the resources in this page for the 1998
Computers and Writing Conference. Leland provides links
to some of the more popular term paper sites and offers
tips on how to deter and prevent plagiarism.
Plagiarism
Detection Software. See section Plagiarism
Detection Tools.
Plagiarism
in Colleges in USA
http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm
Ronald B. Standler, an attorney and consultant, believes
that instructors need to take a proactive stance in fighting
plagiarism in their classes. He discusses the law of plagiarism,
cases in the U. S. involving plagiarism, self-plagiarism
and other issues in this document.
Plagiarized.com:
The Instructors Guide To Internet Plagiarism
http://www.plagiarized.com/index.shtml
Part of the goal of Plagiarized.com is to "get the
word out" about online plagiarism. This site is a good
starting place for those needing to find out more about
plagiarism and how to prevent it.
Preventing
Academic Dishonesty
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/prevent.html
Barbara Gross Davis, Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate
Education at the University of California, Berkeley. This
site is based on a chapter from her book entitled "Tools
for Teaching" (Josey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco,
1993). Dr. Davis covers cheating that occurs or can occur
during exams as well as plagiarized paper assignments at
this site.
Preventing
Plagiarism & Cheating in Online Courses
http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/pointers/1999_12.html
This article is part of the Illinois Online Network's (ION)
technology tip of the month called "Pointers &
Clickers". Links to term paper and custom papers sites
plus ways to prevent cheating in online courses are discussed.
Other articles of interest in the "Pointers & Clickers"
series can be found at http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/pointers/.
Questioning
Author(ity): ESL/EFL, Science, and Teaching about Plagiarism
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej10/a2.html
The publication, TESL-EJ, a refereed publication that is
recognized as the source of ESL and EFL information around
the word, published this article by Sharon Myers, Texas
Tech University. Myers discusses plagiarism as defined by
the U. S. National Academy of Sciences (http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nashome.nsf),
as well the story published in Science
about 3 cases of plagiarism by Chinese scientists.
Reintroducing
Students to Good Research
http://www.gac.edu/~fister/LakeForest.html
Barbara Fister, a librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College
(St. Peter, MN) presented the information at this site in
her keynote address to the faculty at Lake Forest College
(IL). In her speech, she discusses how to make students
independent thinkers so they won't have to rely on copying
the works of others. Fister also outlines assignments that
can be used to encourage this type of behavior in students.
Resources
for Teaching - Plagiarism
http://www.albany.edu/cetl/resources/pedagogy/plagiarism.html
The Plagiarism section of the Center for Excellence in Teaching
& Learning (University of Albany) site can be used to
educate students and teachers about plagiarism. Tips for
"how to spot a fake" are also available on this
page.
Strategies
to Promote Academic Integrity
http://www.id.ucsb.edu/IC/Resources/Teaching/Integrity.html
J. Navarro, D. Clark and D. Halley, at the University of
California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) prepared this document
that was originally presented as a section of A Handbook
on Teaching for UCSB Faculty. The authors outline ways to
faculty can prevent cheating as well as how to go about
reporting incidents of cheating.
Student
Plagiarism in an Online World
http://www.asee.org/prism/december/html/student_plagiarism_
in_an_onlin.htm
Julie J. C. H. Ryan, a graduate teaching assistant at George
Washington University and an information security consultant
examines how the Web contributes to the increase in plagiarism
cases. She also addresses how the Web has a plethora of
tools instructors can use to fight this growing epidemic.
Techniques
for Encouraging Academic Integrity
http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/kkemmerer/acadintegrity/ac-integ.htm
Kathleen Kemmerer, Assistant Professor of English at Penn
State Hazleton, briefly discusses ways to prevent students
from plagiarizing their assignments. She provides links
to articles for instructors & students and free &
fee based plagiarism detection software tools.
What
is Plagiarism at Indiana University?
http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/index2.html
Ted Frick, an associate professor in the Department of Instructional
Systems Technology at Indiana University, developed this
10 part quiz designed to test student's abilities to understand
and recognize plagiarism. The quiz is designed in a multiple
choice format, and immediate feedback is given regarding
answers.
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For Students
Academic
Honesty and Intellectual Ownership
http://library.ups.edu/research/guides/acadhon.htm
Members of the University of Puget Sound's Academic Standards
Committee designed this guide to be an intellectual ownership
resource for students. Source citation materials are also
included.
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.
Avoiding
Plagiarism: Hamilton College
http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/resource/wc/AvoidingPlagiarism.html
Sharon Williams, Director of the Writing Center at Hamilton
College (Clinton, NY), believes that some students have
no idea that what they are doing constitutes plagiarism.
She has designed this site to provide general advice on
how to avoid plagiarism as well as outlining examples of
note taking methods that will show students proper ways
to cite and paraphrase sources.
Avoiding
Plagiarism: Mastering the Art of Scholarship
http://sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm
The Student Judicial Affairs Office at the University of
California, Davis defines what plagiarism is and how to
avoid it. They also list several examples of how to properly
cite and paraphrase sources.
Avoiding
Plagiarism: Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
The Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) developed
this online handout to help students become more aware of
things they can do to avoid plagiarism. Information and
illustrations regarding actions that might be seen as plagiarism
and tips on when to cite sources are provided. A practice
exercise to help students decide if they are at risk for
plagiarism is also available.
Avoiding
Plagiarism @ Oregon State University
http://www.orst.edu/admin/stucon/plag.htm
This Oregon State University site outlines several examples
of acceptable and unacceptable "borrowing".
A
Guide to Writing Research Papers: Statement on Plagiarism
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/plagiarism.shtml
Capital Community College (Hartford, CT) Humanities Department
faculty and librarians at the Arthur C. Banks Jr. Library
prepared this guide which outlines several examples of proper
and improper ways to cite sources.
How
to Avoid Plagiarism
http://www.nwu.edu/uacc/plagiar.html
Northwestern University has outlined guidelines for academic
integrity for undergraduate and graduate students. Their
"How to Avoid Plagiarism" site provides examples
of how to properly attribute graphs, charts, class notes
and more.
Paraphrasing:
Paraphrasing Textual Material
http://www.gened.arizona.edu/eslweb/paraphra.htm
Paraphrasing is a section of the composition support site
for nonnative English at the University of Arizona. Paula
Gunder and Randall Sadler recognize that the ability to
paraphrase materials is an important skill that some writers
have not learned. This guide provides a step-by-step method
to help teach the correct way to paraphrase sources.
Plagiarism
http://www.csubak.edu/ssric/Modules/Other/plagiarism.htm
Earl Babbie, Department of Sociology at Chapman University,
has developed this site that is included in California State
University's Social Sciences Research and Instructional
Council: Teaching Resources Depository. Babbie includes
different examples of plagiarism and how to properly use
and cite other people's works in his discussion.
Plagiarism:
How to Avoid It
http://www.aresearchguide.com/6plagiar.html
Plagiarism: How to Avoid It is section 6 of A Research Guide
for Students (http://www.aresearchguide.com/index.html),
and it was originally print version was published in 1995
as "A Research Guide for Today's High School Students".
The goal of the site is to provide student information they
need to correctly write and document their research. I.
Lee, the author of this site is currently a teacher-librarian
at St. Francis Xavier S.S. Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Plagiarism:
What It is and How to Avoid It
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/library/plagiarismintro.htm
This tutorial was created by the Montgomery College Library
(Maryland), and it is designed to help students avoid plagiarism
in their writing courses. It is recommended that the slides
be completed sequentially, but individual topic areas dealing
with issues such as citation styles and paraphrasing can
also be accessed.
Plagiarism:
What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html
Writing Tutorial Services or WTS (often pronounced "wits")
at Indiana University-Bloomington has put together this
often cited document that discusses what constitutes plagiarism.
Strategies students can take to avoid academic dishonesty
are also provided.
Plagiarism
Avoided: Taking Responsibility for Your Work
http://www.arts.ubc.ca/doa/plagiarism.htm
Plagiarism Avoided is a University of British Columbia site
on how to avoid plagiarism that is based on the original
booklet Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Avoid It by Colin
Gordon, Peter Simmons, and Graeme Wynn. Topics covered on
this site include a discussion on what is plagiarism, tips
on avoiding plagiarism and other examples.
The
Plagiarism Court: You Be the Judge
http://library2.fairfield.edu/instruction/ramona/plugin.html
Ramona Islam, multimedia librarian at the DiMenna-Nyselius
Library, Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT), has developed
this comprehensive tutorial that guides students through
the various components of plagiarism and how to avoid it.
This site goes beyond merely discussing elements of plagiarism
but also provides tips on note taking, paraphrasing and
citation styles. A multiple choice quiz at the end of the
tutorial will allow students to determine how well they
understand the lessons learned in this tutorial.
Plagiarism
Q & A
http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~mspears/plagiarism.html
Michael L. Spears, Grosse Point Public Schools, has developed
this "slide" presentation that includes tips on
how students can avoid plagiarism. Included at this site
are resources to help students correctly paraphrase and
cite sources as well as information on cheating.
Problems
with Writing a Paper
http://www.unmc.edu/ethics/data/data_wri.htm
Cases of scientific fraud have been making the headlines
recently, and those incidents have a detrimental effect
on public attitudes toward science and scientific funding.
Michael D. Mann, PhD in the Department of Physiology &
Biophysics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center,
discusses unethical behavior in science and stresses the
importance of teaching students about proper conduct while
they are students. The article "Problems with Writing
a Paper" the various types of plagiarism including
not reporting contradictory findings and putting your name
on work you didn't do.
Resources
for Avoiding Plagiarism
http://www.library.dal.ca/how/avoid.htm
In addition to resources for faculty, Fran Nowakowski at
the Dalhousie University Libraries (Halifax, Canada) has
also compiled plagiarism resources for students. Included
on this student-focused site are examples and advice on
how to not plagiarize.
What
is Plagiarism?
http://www.georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism.html
What is Plagiarism? is a section of the Georgetown University
Honor Code for students. This document addresses 9 different
questions and statements often heard from students regarding
plagiarism including, "My friends get stuff off the
Internet." and "A citation is not a traffic ticket."
What
is Plagiarism at Indiana University?
http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/index2.html
Ted Frick, an associate professor in the Department of Instructional
Systems Technology at Indiana University, developed this
10 part quiz designed to test student's abilities to understand
and recognize plagiarism. The quiz is designed in a multiple
choice format, and immediate feedback is given regarding
answers.
The
Writing Place: Tips for Writers Avoiding Plagiarism
http://www.writing.nwu.edu/tips/plag.html
The Writing Place is a service of the CAS Writing Program
at Northwestern University, and they have developed this
site to help students learn tips and strategies for avoiding
plagiarism. Examples of accidental plagiarism and acceptable
paraphrasing are presented at this site.
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Plagiarism Case Studies
History
News Network: Plagiarism Cases
http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=504
The Stephen Ambrose plagiarism controversy has gained lots
of press and has brought the issues of sloppiness versus
deliberate copying into the limelight. The History News
Network has links that track the Ambrose case from the initial
reports in the press to its present status.
Plagiarism
http://www.uvsc.edu/ethics/curriculum/education/case15.html
The Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley State
College developed this case on plagiarism as part of their
Ethics Across the Curriculum seminar. Other cases related
to ethics in education that were presented at the seminar
can be found at http://www.uvsc.edu/ethics/curriculum/education/.
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.
Selected
RRP Case Studies & Materials
http://www.responsibility.research.umich.edu/casematerialsdir.html#plag
Shaké Ketefian adapted this case for the University
of Michigan Research Responsibility Program. The case was
taken from "Teaching the Responsible Conduct of Research
Through a Case Study Approach" (Association of American
Medical Colleges, 1994).
Suspicious
Signs Exercise
http://www.lib.umich.edu/acadintegrity/instructors/case_studies
/beat_movement.htm
Renoir Gaither, Shapiro Undergraduate Library at the University
of Michigan, constructed this case that represents what
might be considered to be a problematic paper turned in
by an undergraduate student. Its design is conducive to
discussions in a workshop environment.
Teaching
Ethics for Research, Scholarship & Practice
http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/plagiarism.html
The Office of the Vice President for Research and the Dean
of the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota have
developed this site to be a resource for faculty who are
integrating research ethics into their curriculum. It is
also designed to "foster increased awareness of ethical
issues". Numerous case studies on plagiarism issues
are presented at this site. Ethics cases covering other
subject areas can be found at http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/case.html.
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Plagiarism Detection Tools
CopyCatch
Gold
http://www.copycatch.freeserve.co.uk/
A forensic linguist at CFL Software Development with extensive
experience in plagiarism developed this software for teachers
and students. The cost of a single user license for educational
use is £250 per year.
EduTie.com
http://www.edutie.com/
EduTie.com was founded in August 2000, and is designed to
help institutions prevent Internet plagiarism. It is built
on the PlagiServe (http://www.plagiserve.com)
core design. Papers submitted are compared to more than
1 billion "high risk" Web pages in an attempt
to detect plagiarism. Free trials of the software are available.
EVE2:
Essay Verification Engine
http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml
EVE2 claims to come as close as possible to searching every
site on the Internet to detect plagiarism by "employing
the most advanced searching tools available to locate suspected
sites. Free fifteen day trials are available, but the software
must be purchased after that time to continue using it.
Each license is a one-time fee of $19.99 and updates are
free.
Glatt
Plagiarism Program
http://www.plagiarism.com
Dr. Barbara Glatt has developed the 3 different software
programs designed to detect and prevent plagiarism. The
3 parts are the Plagiarism Teaching Program, the Plagiarism
Screening Program and the Plagiarism Self-Detection Program.
Costs for the programs runs around $250 each if bought as
a complete set or $300 if purchased individually.
A list
of publications that have reviewed the Glatt Plagiarism
Program can be found at
http://www.plagiarism.com/publications.htm.
Google
http://www.google.com
Google is not designed to be a plagiarism detection tool,
but its advanced search engine capabilities are conducive
to locating key phrases that may appear in students' research
papers. Some instructors have found it is better at detecting
plagiarized papers than even Turnitin (http://www.turnitin.com).
The
Google Directory also has numerous links to information
about plagiarism detection devices at http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Educators/
Plagiarism/Detection/.
Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC): Electronic Plagiarism
Detection
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/plagiarism/
JISC completed a plagiarism project in 2001, and they are
establishing a plagiarism advisory service as a result of
this experience. There were 4 parts to their plagiarism
project, and they include:
- Technical
review of free-text plagiarism detection software
- Technical
review of source code plagiarism detection software
- A
pilot of free-text detection software in 5 UK institutions
- A
good practice guide to plagiarism detection
A listserv
has also been established to continue discussions dealing
with academic dishonest and plagiarism issues.
A copy
of JISC's Technical Review of Plagiarism Detection Software
Report can be accessed at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub01/luton.pdf.
JISC
Plagiarism Advisory Service
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/art/information_studies/
Imri/JISCPAS/site/default.htm
JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service is a new offering that
began in September 2002. It is based in the Information
Management Research Institute at Northumbria University
(UK). New materials are constantly being added to this
plagiarism portal, but it currently offers advice &
guidance, educational materials for students and other
online resources. A plagiarism detection service, supported
by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) until
August 2004, is based on the turnitin.com platform and
allows instructors to conduct electronic comparisons of
work complete by students.
JPlag
http://www.jplag.de/
Guido Malpohl initially developed this software which is
designed to detect academic dishonesty. The software does
more than merely compare the text of documents. JPlag also
looks at program language syntax and program structure so
it can also be used to detect stolen software parts. Instructors
may use JPlag for free, but they must first set up an account
in order to prevent unauthorized use by students.
Library
Electronic Databases
http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/ersearch/
The Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
provides access to numerous electronic resources for students
and faculty. Instructors may want to consult these resources
when checking for plagiarism. Full text databases like EBSCO
and Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac) are two obvious starting
points when checking undergraduate assignments. One thing
to keep in mind is that some resources that are not full
text but provide abstract information are often used by
students.
Moss
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html
Moss or Measure of Software Similarity is a tool that has
been used primarily to detect plagiarism. The way it works
is that it detects similarities of C, C++, Java, Pascal,
Ada, ML, Lisp or Scheme programs. Moss is free to use for
instructors and staff of programming language courses only.
Plagiarism.org
http://www.plagiarism.org
University of California Berkeley students and alumni created
plagiarism.org to be used to detect plagiarism. One thing
to watch out for is that the software doesn't differentiate
between quoted materials and original writing.
The
Plagiarism Resource Site
http://www.plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/
Lou Bloomfield, Professor of Physics at the University of
Virginia, is the sole author of The Plagiarism Resource
Site. The goal of this site is to "help reduce the
impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions".
Numerous links are provided to sources on how to deal with
plagiarism.
PlagiServe
http://www.plagiserve.com/
Olexiy Shevchenko, Max Litvin and Sasha Lugovskyy, the PlagiServe
Team, came up with the concept of a plagiarism detection
device in June 2000. The software used by PlagiServe not
only detects papers that have been obtained from a term
paper company and turned into an instructor, but it also
looks for any changes or modifications made to these papers.
PlagiServe has a database of over 150,000 student essays,
term papers and cliff notes, and they also send out Web
robots to check "high risk" sites like Britannica.com,
Refdesk.com and Encyclopedia.com for copied materials. NOTE:
Instructors may want to be careful about using this particular
detection device. Some indicate it may also sell term papers
to students.
Turnitin
http://www.turnitin.com/
Turnitin, a plagiarism.org partner, considers themselves
to be "the world's most widely recognized and trusted
resource for helping prevent Internet plagiarism".
Free trials are also available, and subscription costs vary
depending on the type of plan chosen.
Turnitin
is currently the subject of a copyright controversy. For
more information, check out the following article, "A
Plagiarism Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary" at
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i36/36a03701.htm.
WordCHECK
http://www.wordchecksystems.com/
WordCHECK is used by a diverse group including information
researchers, copyright attorneys and classroom teachers.
This plagiarism detection device was developed by Information
Analytics, a Lincoln, NE company owned by Kenneth Livingston
and Mark Dahmke. WordCHECK may be purchased for a fee.
Comparison
of Plagiarism Detection Tools
- Comparison
of Plagiarism Detection Services
http://www.wou.edu/provost/library/staff/kincanon/plagiarism/chart.htm
Theresa Gillis, Eastern Oregon University and Janeanne
Rockwell-Kincanon, Western Oregon University, compared
6 different plagiarism detection services and presented
their findings at the Online Northwest Conference 2000
in Portland, OR. The site, which has been minimally updated
on August 29, 2002, outlines the scope of the search,
availability of a demo, cost, method of use and additional
comments. More information about Gillis and Rockwell-Kincanon's
presentation is available at
