Links to Useful Web Sites

• The University of Melbourne: Examples of Department Guidelines
• Other Universities
• Plagiarism Detection Sites and Software
• Articles and Anecdotes

The University of Melbourne: Examples of Department Guidelines

• Faculty of Education - An example of how faculty includes policy on plagiarism in a student guide (read on-line)
  http://www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/facs/ED-S12695.html
• History Department - An example of how a department can give advice to students on documenting sources in essays (read on-line)
  http://arthur.meu.unimelb.edu.au/history/research_history/history/documenting/index.html
• Faculty of Economics and Commerce - The Teaching and Learning Unit has developed an Academic Honesty self test for students. http://tlu.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/AcademicHonestyTest/index.cfm

Other Universities

• UK - Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) - Plagiarism Advisory Service providing generic advice and guidelines on all aspects of plagiarism prevention and detection to institutions, academics and students. http://www.jiscpac.ac.uk/apppage.cgi
• Le Moyne College : Provides a comprehensive list of links to on-line resources on electronic plagiarism. Also includes strategies for preventing and detecting plagisrism. (web text)
  http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism/index.htm
• Duke University : Duke University requires student to commit to an undergraduate honour code. (web text)
  http://www.duke.edu/web/HonorCouncil/
• Lancaster University research study: Student Diversity & Academic Writing Project: A new research and development project that explores the intersection of two crucial issues for the postgraduate higher education sector: international students and plagiarism. Information about this project can be accessed at:  http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/Departments/owt/Research/sdaw/

Plagiarism Detection Sites and Software

• Turnitin - web based text matching software. http://www.turnitin.com
• University of Virginia. Free text matching software: http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/Wsoftware.html
• Electronic document source analysis software.   http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml
• Glatt Plagiarism Services - software uses cloze technique to test a student's ability to recreate their text.
  http://www.plagiarism.com
• Moss (Measure of Software Similarity) is an internet service to detect plagiarism in computer programming. It has been developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html

Articles and Anecdotes

• "Minimising Plagiarism" by Marcia Devlin IN Assessing Learning in Australian Universities: Ideas, strategies and resources for quality in student assessment   Richard James, Craig McInnis and Marcia Devlin, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2002. Available online or in pdf format at URL: http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/03/plagMain.html
• Playing Dirty in the War on Plagiarism (by Vincent Moore, a US academic). Personal perspective suggesting that academic colleagues start posting low quality assignments for paper mill web-sites. These should include 'anachronisms, obvious misquotes, and glaring mistakes'. In this way, he argues, we can work together to lower the credibility of such sources.
  http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/08/2002081501c.htm
• The New Plagiarism in Education: from selection to reflection. Jim Evans the University of Warwick decribes strategies to prevent and detect plagiarism.
  http://www.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/interactions/vol4no2/Evans.htm
• Includes up-to-date articles on cheating
  http://www.wired.com/news/school/
• Plagiarism: is there a Virtual Solution?
  http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/2_learntch/plagiarism.html