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Attacking From All Sides: Strategies to educate students and faculty on
copyright and plagiarism issues
Rosalind Tedford and Elisabeth LeonardZ. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
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Wake Forest University
• 3500 undergraduates
• 1500 graduate students
• 400+ faculty
• All students, staff and faculty issued IBM ThinkPads on a 2-year rotation.
• Primarily wired campus, moving toward wireless in the next 12 months
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Z. Smith Reynolds Library
• Supports the undergraduate college, Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the Graduate Divinity School
• Over 1.3 million volumes
• 54 full-time staff members
• One of the top academic libraries in the southeast for library expenditures per student
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Existing Intellectual Property Programs
• Information Systems
• Faculty Training
• Student Training
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Copyright: Information Systems
• Copyright statement part of official university policy on Ethical Computing
• IS Program “Think For Yourself” encourages responsible computer use, especially concerning copyrighted materials
• IS is responsible for responding to legal challenges against students
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Copyright: Students• New student ThinkPad orientation
• IS Student Programs Training (RTAs, STARs
• Dreamweaver classes
• Other multimedia training classes
• Information literacy elective course
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Copyright: Students• Assume they want to do the easy/cheap thing• Explain:
– The concept of intellectual property– Why the media producers are upset– Why universities are targeted– How downloading/sharing affects the campus
network– What they can do to advocate alternative models
• Explain what they can and cannot do (specifics) and the consequences of not complying
• Find a hook (parent’s $$; college record)
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Copyright: Faculty
• Faculty ThinkPad exchange training
• Blackboard courses
• Dreamweaver courses
• Brown Bag Lunch sessions with the TLC
• Tech Talk sessions
• Individual Q&A (ITC and Reference)
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Copyright: Faculty
• Assume they want to do the right thing• Qualify Fair Use according to the law• Explain new issues with digital media (DMCA,
TEACH)• Discuss how they can bring issues up with their
students• Provide frameworks and alternatives that make
compliance easy (e-reserves, streaming servers)• Use concrete examples• Explain file sharing issues
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Plagiarism
• What is it?
• How do you discuss it?
• Who should be involved in the discussion?
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Plagiarism Statement at WFU
• To put your name on a piece of work is to say that it is yours, that the praise or criticism due to it is due to you. To put your name on a piece of work any part of which is not yours is plagiarism, unless that piece is clearly marked and the work from which you have borrowed is fully identified. Plagiarism is a form of theft. Taking words, phrasing, sentence structure, or any other element of the expression of another person’s ideas, and using them as if they were yours, is like taking from that person a material possession, something he or she has worked for and earned. Even worse is the appropriation of someone else’s ideas. By "ideas" is meant everything from the definition or interpretation of a single word, to the overall approach or argument. If you paraphrase, you merely translate from his or her language to yours; another person’s ideas in your language are still not your ideas. Paraphrase, therefore, without proper documentation, is theft, perhaps of the worst kind. Here, a person loses not a material possession, but something of what characterized him or her as an individual….
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Plagiarism statement continued
• Plagiarism is a serious violation of another person’s rights, whether the material stolen is great or small; it is not a matter of degree or intent. You know how much you would have had to say without someone else’s help; and you know how much you have added on your own. Your responsibility, when you put your name on a piece of work, is simply to distinguish between what is yours and what is not, and to credit those who have in any way contributed.
From Academic Writing at WFU, http://www.wfu.edu/academic-departments/english/courses/writing_guide.htm#Plagiarism , accessed 6/03.
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Plagiarism: Faculty
• Discuss the issues– Workshops– One on one contact
• Be aware!• Solutions
– Writing seminars– Change the assignments– Librarians can track down citations– Librarians can teach how to cite – ITG’s for plagiarism software
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Plagiarism: Students
• Writing seminars
• ThinkPad orientation
• Through start menu
• One shot instruction sessions
• Information literacy course
• At reference desk
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Plagiarism: Students
• Open a dialog– They’re busy– They never understood the problem– It’s easy to do– Everyone does it
• Provide solutions– Intellectual property– Research is a process – Teach proper citation styles– Research logs
• Find a hook -- help their grades!
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Lessons Learned
• It’s too easy to come off sounding like ‘big brother’
• Copyright law is an ever-changing landscape
• Plagiarism is NOT the same as copyright, but people often think it is
• All stakeholders need to be on the same page
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Tips for Others
• Do your homework
• Get representatives from every affected campus community involved
• Don’t talk down to anyone
• Eliminate the big brother mentality
• Assume good intentions – even if you have proof to the contrary!
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Questions?
