Plagiarism Resource Site

A psychology professor at Cornell has conducted an informal experiment that suggests that students lie less online than in face-to-face or phone conversations. One conclusion -- that people lies less when their communication is recorded and can be held against them -- runs counter to the current, popular view of student plagiarism, which is understood to be on the rise despite the fact that it leaves a paper trail.

Sociology professor, Frank Furedi, discusses the significance of plagiarism to British HE.

A University of New Hampshire professor has been found guilty of "scholarly misconduct" for not acknowledging a source in a newspaper column,

An article in Forbes considers the issue of academic plagiarism and the "new ethic of learning" that educators are using to teach grade schoolers the responsible use of information.

UCLA has launched an Online Information Literacy Tutorial that provides students with guidance in such matters as intellectual property, file sharing, documenting sources, and academic honesty.

According to the Daily Herald, several Chicago area high schools have subscribed to Turnitin: the article provides a brief history of the online detection service.

South African universities toughen stance on plagiarism.

Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs, tracking the flow of information in the blogosphere, have identified how ideas, regularly unattributed, spread between blogs. See the HP Blog Epidemic Analyzer.

The Christian Science Monitor reviews in brief the options available to counter student plagiarism: detection, ethics, and re-designing assignments.

Lewis & Clark College has prepared a tutorial on "Avoiding Plagiarism."