Links to useful web sites

The University of Melbourne: examples of department guidelines

History Department - An example of how a department can give advice to students on documenting sources in essays:
http://arthur.meu.unimelb.edu.au/history/research_history/history/documenting/index.html
Faculty of Economics and Commerce - The Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching has developed an academic honesty self test for students:
http://www.tlu.fbe.unimelb.edu.au/AcademicHonestyTest/index.cfm

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.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services/pas.aspx
Duke University requires student to commit to an undergraduate honour code:
http://honorcouncil.groups.duke.edu/

Turnitin - web based text matching software:
http://www.turnitin.com/
University of Virgini - free text matching software:
http://plagiarism.bloomfieldmedia.com/z-wordpress/
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) - an internet service to detect plagiarism in computer programming. Developed at the University of California, Berkeley:
http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/

"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:
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/article/Playing-Dirty-in-the-War-on/46035/
The New Plagiarism in Education: from selection to reflection. Jim Evans the University of Warwick decribes strategies to prevent and detect plagiarism:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/resource/assessment/#plag
Includes up-to-date articles on cheating:
http://www.wired.com/culture/education/
Plagiarism: is there a virtual solution?
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/resources/plagiarism.html