The University of British Columbia

Students may plagiarize for a variety of reasons. They may not know the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing or may be unsure how to properly cite references. For students raised in a non-Western culture, the idea that words can be owned may be a new or difficult concept to understand.

This guide is designed to assist faculty in preventing plagiarism and helping teach students the consequences of plagiarism.

Plagiarism Resources:

Online

TurnItIn At UBC
UBC now subscribes to TurnItIn.com, an online service that scans essay and term papers to check for material copied from web sites or purchased from paper mills (such as cheater.com), published works, or previously submitted essays.

Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism, University of Alberta

Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism, University of Texas Libraries

Academic Integrity: Information for Faculty, UBC Faculty of Arts

Plagiarism.org
A website that focuses on the issue of online plagiarism and resources designed to detect it.

Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You / Margaret Fain and Peggy Bates, Coastal Carolina University
Aims at assisting faculty in detecting and preventing plagiarism

Deterring Plagiarism: Some Strategies / Margaret Proctor, University of Toronto
Offers ways to reduce to chance of plagiarism and make assignments an integral part of course learning

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Decoo, Wilfried. Crisis on Campus : Confronting Academic Misconduct. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.
LB2344 .D43 2002

Howard, Rebecca Moore. Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators. Stamford, CN: Ablex, 1999.
PN167.H69 1999

Lathrop, Anne and Kathleen Foss. Guiding Students From Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity : Strategies for Change. Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2005.
LB3609 .L27 2005

Randall, Marilyn. Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
PN167.R35 2001

Whitley Jr., Bernard E. and Patricia Keith-Spiegel. Academic Dishonesty: An Educator's Guide. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum, 2002.
LB3609 .W45 2002

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Intellectual Property/Ownership:

Canadian Intellectual Property Office
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/about/aboutus-e.html

Canadian Copyright Act
http://lois.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/

Industry Canada's Intellectual Property Policy Directorate (IPPD)
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ip00001e.html

UBC University-Industry Liaison Office
http://www.uilo.ubc.ca/

Information Literacy:

Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.htm

Martin, Allan and Hannelore Rader, Editors. Information and IT Literacy : Enabling Learning in the 21st Century. London: Facet, 2003.
LB1044.87 .I536 2003

Raspa, Richard and Dane Ward, Editors. The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2000.
Z675.U5C6417 2000


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Faculty Systems for Online Scholarship:

Public Knowledge Project
http://pkp.ubc.ca

Scholarly Communications:

Open Access and Scholarly Communication, UBC Library Subject Guide
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage2.cfm?id=960

ARL Office of Scholarly Communication
http://www.arl.org/scomm/

Create Change: A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication
http://www.createchange.org/

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition (SPARC)
http://www.arl.org/sparc/

Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
http://researchknowledge.ca/

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