Real examples of Internet copyright violations. How to avoid plagiarism and cite Web-based material appropriately.
Ideas to use in preventing and detecting plagiarism.
Publisher's site providing information about The Plagiarism Handbook, a book with information about preventing, detecting, and dealing with plagiarism.
Examples and practice exercises from Rio Salado College.
Article by Justin Zobel investigates an Australian case in 2001 in which around thirty students appear to have obtained material from a private tutor. Some details were reported in the press during 2003 when a student and the tutor were sentenced in court.
Detection software will search 800 million websites to stop students plagiarising from the internet.
Bloggers are naming names, creating an award for news organizations who plagiarize weblogs without attribution.
Academic plagiarism has long been a problem in computer science faculties, but instructors and other university staff are increasingly turning to a series of free, Web-based tools to ferret out plagiarized code and catch cheaters.
Provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students. It is affiliated with the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
Boston University is suing eight companies that sell term papers over the Internet. The school wants the federal courts to enforce a Massachusetts law banning the sale of term papers.
Links to discussions of plagiarism and techniques to combat it.
Internet plagiarism examples, remedies, proper behavior, and annotated related links.
Briefly discusses the relationship between copyright and plagiarism.
1997 article discussing the easily availability of online term papers.
Preventing, detecting and tracking online plagiarism.
Dalhousie's policies, news about plagiarism in university settings, and resources for faculty and students to help understand, avoid and detect plagiarism.
Article taken from the October 2001 issue of Educause Review.
Tips for preventing and identifying plagiarism, including scientific fraud. Lists of plagiarism detection software sites and term paper mills. Bibliography and webography.
A group of students accused of sharing "programming solutions" by email now face fines or expulsion.
Definitions of plagiarism from the American Historical Association, Modern Language Association, and the American Psychological Association.
Essay from Susan Richman asking, "Has plagiarism ever come up in conversation at home with your kids?"
Russ Hunt writes, "The challenge of easier and more convenient plagiarism is to be welcomed. This rising tide threatens to change things for... the better."
Suggests that plagiarism and cheating aren't always the same. Argues that the emphasis on "originality" for everything written or otherwise created is a hard target to hit.
Use this resource to confirm if an essay was created by the student who submitted it, or copied in part or in full from the web.
An initiative to encourage colleges and universities to do as much as they can to reinforce the positive values instilled by parents, such as honesty, compassion, self-discipline, and respect.