| Lynn Berard, Principal Librarian, Engineering & Science Library | |
| October 2008 |
| The act of appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas, or passages therefrom, and passing the material off as one's own creation. | |
| Help in avoiding Plagiarism | |
| http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/ | |
| Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium | |
| Information you gain through interviewing or conversing with another person, face to face, over the phone, or in writing | |
| When you copy the exact words or a unique phrase | |
| Reprinted with permission from The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. |
| When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, pictures, or other visual materials | |
| When you reuse or repost any electronically-available media, including images, audio, video, or other media | |
| Bottom line, document any words, ideas, or other productions that originate somewhere outside of you. | |
| Reprinted with permission from The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. |
| Citations sites: | |
| http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/EngineeringAndSciences/Eng/citing.html | |
| Endnote (supplied by CMU for a fee; works with most databases from the library: | |
| http://www.cmu.edu/computing/software/all/endnote/index.html | |
| Free Sites: | |
| Bibme http://www.bibme.org/ | |
| Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ | |
| Check “Journal Author” instructions for each publisher | |
| http://pubs.asce.org/authors/book/generalresources/writingstyle.htm | |
Duplicate Publication/ Redundant Publication
| Become informed about journals/publications important to your field and choose wisely when submitting a paper to only ONE publication. | |
| If you are rejected, use the feedback from reviewers to improve your work, then send on to the NEXT publication. | |
| For continuing study results, be sure to only publish NEW studies, even when built on original work. |
| National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center | |
| http://onlineethics.org/ | |
| http://onlineethics.org/CMS/5158.aspx?SearchTerm=falsification | |
| The Responsible Researcher: Paths and Pittfalls | |
| http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/ethics/publications.shtml | |
| Office of Sponsored Research | |
| http://www.cmu.edu/osp/ | |
| CMU Research Handbook | |
| http://www.cmu.edu/osp/research-handbook.html | |
| CMU Institutional Review Board (IRB) | |
| http://www.cmu.edu/osp/regulatory-compliance/human-subjects.html | |
| Research Guide for Animal Alternatives and Welfare http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/LabSupport/ |
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| Center for Technology Transfer | |
| http://www.carnegiemellonctt.com/ | |
| Intellectual Property Policy: | |
| http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/IntellProp.html | |
| National Academies Press | |
| http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=4917#toc | |
| Scholarly Communication/Open Access | |
| http://www.library.cmu.edu/Communication/ | |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | |
| http://www.doaj.org | |