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For plagiarism, see the chapter "Standards, Procedures, Policies and Regulations"

Part of Purdue University's Online Writing Lab, this section is a detailed guide on what does and does not constitute plagiarism, help on deciding when to give credit and determining common knowledge, plus exercises.

Test your knowledge of academic integrity - from Empire State College.

A basic guide to copyright and fair use for faculty at the School of Visual Arts.

The U.S. Copyright Office website is a good, introductory source of information about U.S. copyright law and how to register a work. From the site, you can download forms (many of which you can complete online before you print them out), instructions, legislative information, and primers on the Copyright Act and how it applies to different types of works.

From the College Art Association, the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts is based on a consensus of professionals in the visual arts who use copyrighted images, texts, and other materials in their creative and scholarly work and who, through discussion groups, identified best practices for using such materials. They included art and architectural historians, artists, designers, curators, museum directors, educators, rights and reproduction officers, and editors at scholarly publishers and journals.

Created by Peter B. Hirtle at Cornell University, this chart details copyright rules for types of works and dates of publications in the United States. This is not legal advice, but a guide to determining whether a work is still in copyright.

From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab, this resource provides a few general strategies about how to use fair use policies and copyright laws.

An online comic book about copyright law basics.

From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab, this section provides information on evaluating bibliographic citations, aspects of evaluation, reading evaluation, print vs. Internet sources, and evaluating Internet sources.

Use this form as an exercise in evaluating the scholarly value of a website or internet resource - from UC Berkeley.

This guide offers tips for evaluating the quality of content on the Web. The Web is a rich environment of Web pages, blogs, wikis, social networking sites, free research services, media types and more. It can be a challenge to figure out which content to trust. This guide will help you to identify the type of site you are visiting and to evaluate its content. From SUNY Albany.

Examples of different citation styles - Chicago, APA, MLA, Turabian, and AMA. From LIU Post.

A citation guide from Western Michigan University.

Part of Purdue University's Online Writing Lab, this section provides guides to research and citation using APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.

A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Includes a Word plugin to pull in citations while you write and generate a bibliography. View "Documentation" for a quick start guide.

Automatic citation maker for all sources, print and web.