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Pathfinder : Plagiarism

Scope Note :

Refers to the use of another's ideas, information, language, or writing, when done without proper acknowledgment of the original source.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism)

Used for :

• Copying
• Uncredited

Broader terms :

• Authorship
• Cheating
• Copyright
• Fraud
• Intellectual property
• Literary ethics
• Stealing

Related terms :

• Copyright infringement
• Imitation in literature
• Originality in literature

BOOKS

Text located at the Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor:

• Combating academic fraud : towards a culture of integrity. Max A. Eckstein. LB2388 .E35 2003

Texts located at the Circulation Section, 3rd floor are:

• Beyond intellectual property : toward traditional resource rights for indigenous people and local communities. Darrell A. Posey and Graham Dutfield . GN 380 P67 1996
• Capital for our time : the economic, legal, and management challenges of intellectual capital. Edited by Nicholas Imparato. HD53 .C36 1999
• Intellectual property issues in software. Steering Committee for Intellectual Property Issues in Software, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Applications, National Research Council. Z 656 S64 I57 1991
• Towards a political economy of information : studies on the information economy. Roberto Verzola. HD30.2 V47 2004

Texts located at the American Studies Resource Center, Ground floor:

• Copyright handbook. Donald F. Johnston. KF 2994 J6 1982
• International intellectual property protection for computer software : a research guide and annotated bibliography. Jon S. Schultz & Steven Windsor. K 1443 C6 A14 1994
• Softwars : the legal battles for control of the global software industry. Anthony Lawrence Clapes. K 1443 C6 C5 1993
• Stolen words : forays into the origins and ravages of plagiarism. Thomas Mallon. PN 167 M34 1991

Texts located at Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall Library, 2nd floor:

• The ABC of copyright. K 1420 A2 1981
• Background reading material on intellectual property. K 1404 B34 1992
• The digital dilemma : intellectual property in the information age. Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging, Information Infrastructure, Computer Science and Telecommunication Board Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council. KF 2979 D54 2000
• A global political economy of intellectual property rights : the new enclosures? Christopher May. K 1401 M39 2000
• A software law primer. Frederic William Neitzke. KF 3024 C6 N44 1984
• Software protection : practical and legal steps to protect and market computer programs. G. Gervaise Davis III.; KF 3024 C6 D38 1986

Text located at the European Documentation Centre, 1st floor:

• Information law in practice. Paul Marett.; KD 1269 M37 2002

Text located at the Filpiniana Section, 4th floor:

• Copyright under the Intellectual Property Code. Vicente B. Amador. KPM1104.A31997 A5 1998

PERIODICALS

ACM Digital Library
http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm

• Communications of the ACM
• Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
• Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC)
• Proceedings of the conference on Ethics in the computer age

EBSCO Host
http://search.ebscohost.com

• Communications of the ACM
• Library Journal
• School Library Journal

Gale Group Computer Online
http://infotrac.apla.galegroup.com/itweb/dlsu

• Communications of the ACM
• Computers in Libraries
• History Computer Review
• Newsbytes
• Technology Review

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/

• American Literature
• ELH
• Modern Language Notes

PROQUEST Online
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

• Christian Science Monitor
• Editor & Publisher
• Library Management
• Nature
• Phi Delta Kappan
• School Library Journal
• T.H.E. Journal
• Teacher Librarian
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Journal of American History
• The Journal of Psychology

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
(Archives Section, 4th floor)

• Breaking signs: this matter of literary plagiarism. Bautista, Cirilo F. Phil. Panorama 25(26):20+ Jl 7'96
• Critic-at-large: more on plagiarism. Cruz, Isagani R. Phil. Starweek My 31'92
• Critic-at-large: plagiarism in poetry. Cruz, Isagani R. Phil. Starweek N 10'96
• Critic-at-large: on plagiarism and copyright. Cruz, Isagani R. Phil. Starweek 8(30):16 S 18'94
• Copyright, plagiarism, atbp. Nicolas, Alice Gregorio. DLSU Newsletter 26(15):1+ S 5 '94
• Plagiarism, copyright, and GATT. Cruz, Isagani R. URCO Folio Series 4(2):1-5 SY 1994-1995

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

PROQUEST Digital Dissertations
http://wwwumi.com/pqdauto

• Telling stories of academic misconduct: Plagiarism, cheating, and the language of virtue. by Chalk, Steven R., PhD. Michigan State University, 2004, AAT 3145989
• Teaching about plagiarism and referencing: theory and practice. by England, Amy S., PhD University of Louisville, 2004, AAT 3164663
• Knowledge incorporated: plagiarism and anti-plagiarism therapies in higher education. by Marsh, William Casey, PhD University of California, san Diego, 2004, AAT 3153697
• The owl and the plagiarist: academic misrepresentation in contemporary education. by Buerger, Geoffrey Edward, PhD. Dalhousie University (Canada), 2002, AAT NQ75718
• Is plagiarism an issue in graduate education? an examination of two graduate programs. by Usick, Brandy L., Med. University of Manitoba (Canada), 2004,  AAT MQ97208

INTERNET WEBSITES
(Cybernook, Ground floor; Graduate corners, 2nd and 3rd floors)

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“Robert Harris presents strategies on how to combat increasing amount of plagiarism on research papers and help encourage students to value the assignment and to do their own work.”

Dealing with plagiarism: Using research to develop a holistic approach.
http://www.ecu.edu.au/conferences/herdsa/main/papers/nonref/pdf/RanaldMacdonald.pdf
[Retrieved September 19, 2005]
“Plagiarism has long been a focus of regulatory concern in many higher education institutions. This article talks about commercial electronic software detection packages and how to identify and punish plagiarism once the academic offence has been committed.”

Developing a New Faculty Approach to Quality Policy on Plagiarism.
http://www.auqa.edu.au/auqf/2004/program/papers/St-Hill.pdf
[Retrieved September 19, 2005 ]
“To reduce the incidence of plagiarism the Quality Committee in the University of Southern Queensland’s Faculty of Business developed a quality policy focused on assessment design, information literacy education, and redefining what constitutes minor academic misconduct.”

IT and Education: Copy Cats.
http://www.iwr.co.uk/computeractive/features/2014113/education-copy-cats
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“An article by Martin Courtney focused on how widespread is plagiarism in the UK's educational establishments, and what can be done to prevent it.”

Maintaining Academic Integrity in Online Education.
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring51/heberling51.html
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“This article assumed that cheating and plagiarism are a greater problem online than in a traditional class.”

Patterns of Plagiarism.
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1050000/1047473/p383-daly.pdf?key1=1047473&key2=3415686211&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=54835085&CFTOKEN=32827791
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“A new technique being used to analyze how students plagiarize programs in an introductory programming course.”

Plagiarism Monitoring and Detection-Towards an Open Discussion.
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/380000/374827/p229-jones.pdf?key1=374827&key2=6941586211&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=54821809&CFTOKEN=12672586
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“An article by Edward L. Jones stating that plagiarism in programming courses is a pervasive and frustrating problem that undermines the educational process. ”

Plagiarism, Norms, and the Limits of Theft Law: Some Observations on the Use of Criminal Sanctions in Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights.
http://faculty.law.lsu.edu/stuartgreen/j-green2.pdf
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]

Plagiarism.Org.
http://www.plagiarism.org/
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“This site is designed to provide the latest information on online plagiarism and explain how Turnitin and iThenticate are now being used by educators and content creators all over the world to fight plagiarism and restore integrity to written work.”

Plagiarism and Poor Academic Practice – A Threat to the Extension of e-Learning in Higher Education?
http://business-kac.co.uk/art25.pdf
[Retrieved September 19, 2005]
“ After an examination of the prevalence of plagiarism and some of the reasons advanced for its increase, the paper examines some solutions which are typically advocated.”

The Plagiarism Resource Site, Charlottesville, Virginia.
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/home.html
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“The goal of this web site is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. ”

Plagiarism : Something Fishy?...or Just a Fish Out of Water?
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/virtual/NewTF/50/T50errey.pdf
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“Lynn Errey discusses a complex issue on plagiarism stating that plagiarism escalates because of possible changes in the way students are expected to access and process the information they need for their assignments.”

Plagiarism in U.S. Higher Education: Estimating Internet Plagiarism Rates and Testing a Means of Deterrence.
http://webdisk.berkeley.edu/~Weinstein/Weinstein-JobMarketPaper.PDF
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“With the recent scandals at several high-profile universities, there has been growing pressure on college administrators from alumni and the general public to combat the problem of plagiarism, particularly Internet plagiarism. ”

SPLAT : A System for Self-Plagiarism Detection.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~kobourov/icwi_plag.pdf
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“This paper presents a system for self-plagiarism detection, SPLAT. The system uses a WebL spider that crawls through the web sites of the top fifty Computer Science departments, downloading research papers and grouping them by author.”

Technical Review of Plagiarism Detection Software Report.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/luton.pdf
[Retrieved September 16, 2005]
“The focus of this Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded project concentrated on detecting plagiarism in text-based assignments. ”

“Uni Cheats Racket”: A Case Study in Plagiarism Investigation.
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/990000/980016/p357-zobel.pdf?key1=980016&key2=6195117211&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=53278691&CFTOKEN=41611230
[Retrieved September 19, 2005]
“A case review about plagiarism in a school. Such case was investigated 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.

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Date: September 2005/February 2010