Links
The project is now complete
The resources created by the project is avaiable on the project resources website located here:
This page lists organisations and sites that we have found helpful in our research.
Links are currently organised in the following sections:
- UK-based general sites
- Higher Education Academy (HEA) network resources
- International links
- About Electronic detection
1. UK-based general sites:
- JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is a not-for-profit organisation funded by UK higher education funding councils. The Plagiarism Advisory Service provides generic advice, guidance and resources on all aspects of plagiarism prevention and detection to institutions, academics and students.
- “Plagiarism – A good practice guide” was written by Jude Carroll and Jon Appleton for JISCPAS (2001)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/brookes.pdf
- This is Jude Carrol’s page at Oxford Brookes University, which is the continually updated companion site to her guide (above).
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/4_resource/plagiarism.html
- Peter Levin’s page features his 2003 guide,“Beat the Witch-Hunt! Peter Levin's Guide to Avoiding and Rebutting Accusations of Plagiarism, for Conscientious Students”. Peter is based at the London School of Economics in the Centre for Teaching & Learning.
http://www.student-friendly-guides.com/index.html
2. Higher Education Academy (HEA) network resources
Distributed across the HEA subject network there are various other projects and resources that deal with academic writing and or plagiarism:
- This is a 4-page guide outlining the major issues written by Jude Carroll for the Generic Centre. It is entitled: "What kinds of solutions can we find for plagiarism?". This is a pdf file.
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/embedded_object.asp?id=21633&filename=Carroll
- For the Economics network, Dr Jeremy B. Williams of Universitas 21 Global developed an online handbook entitled: "Plagiarism: Deterrence, Detection and Prevention" (2005) that is available via the following link:
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/handbook/plagiarism/
- Ranald MacDonald of Sheffield Hallam University published a 2-page briefing paper through the Physical Sciences Centre, entitled: "Plagiarism - Prevention, Detection and Punishment" (2005).
http://www.physsci.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/briefingpaper/plag6.pdf
- Based at Queen Mary, University of London the Thinking Writing project was developed s a guide to writing-intensive teaching and learning. It is a resource aimed at academic staff. It was supported through the generic subject centre and can be found at:
http://www.thinkingwriting.qmul.ac.uk/
3. International links:
- The Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory (VAIL) was developed by the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment at University of Maryland University College. It provides a good general resource for Staff and Students.
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/vail/home.html
- This website was created by the Rochester Institute of Technology. Its resources are aimed at supporting both faculty and students in their efforts to avoid plagiarism.
http://wally.rit.edu/researchguides/plagiarism.html
- The Center for Academic Integrity affiliated to the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
http://www.academicintegrity.org/
- Russ Hunt is a Professor of English based at St. Thomas University in Brunswick, Canada. He has written various articles on plagiarism that are listed on this site:
http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/learn.htm
- The 2nd Asia-Pacific Educational Integrity Conference, entitled "Educational Integrity: Values in Teaching, Learning & Research" took place at the University of Newcastle, Australia on the 2-3 December 2005. Details are available on:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/conferences/apeic/
- And here are details for the 3rd Asia-Pacific Educational Integrity Confererence that will take place at the University of Southern Australia on the 6-7 December 2007. For further details see:
http://www.unisa.edu.au/educationalintegrity/conference/
4. About Electronic detection
- Detection section of the Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory (VAIL), as mentioned above:
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/vail/faculty/detection_tools/intro.html
- EVE Plagiarism Detection System is an alternative to the software that was being piloted by JISC, i.e.Turnitin.
