Purdue OWL An excellent resource for citing is Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL). Click on the OWL link for assistance on how to cite a variety of sources in your work.
University of Michigan: Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices This includes a Definition of Plagiarism, Causes, Shared Responsibility, and Best Practices.
The purpose of copyright is to promote knowledge and innovation. Copyright secures the owner’s rights but also provides limitations to those rights through Fair Use. Fair use guidelines are just that — they are guidelines and not hard and fast rules. Four factors to help determine Fair Use include: 1. Purpose or character of use; 2. Nature of work; 3. Amount or portion used; and 4. Effect on the potential market of that work.
Copyright Basics United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Building on others’ creative expression and CONFU The University of Texas Libraries provides a brief introduction to the Conference on Fair Use meetings that took place in 1997 in order to come to an agreement (unsuccessfully) on the scope of fair use in the electronic realm.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) published this document in January 2012, providing guidelines specifically for academic libraries. The Association of Research Libraries developed this Code of Best Practices in conjunction with the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University.