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Medicine: BioMed Central www.biomedcentral.com (journals)
Music: Online Resources for Music Scholars hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/ music/resources/index.html (gateway to music resources on the web)
Philosophy: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu
Physics: arXiv.org arxiv.org/ (non-peer-reviewed but moderated scholarly e-print submissions), World of Physics http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics
Political Science: Intute: Politics www.intute.ac.uk/politics/ (web resources), THOMAS http://thomas.loc.gov (U.S. government documents)
Psychology: Intute: Psychology www.intute.ac.uk/psychology/ (web resources)
Religion: Religion Online http://www.religion-online.org/ (articles and book chapters), Hartford Institute forReligion Research www.hartfordinstitute.org (surveys and statistics)
Sociology: Intute: Sociology www.intute.ac.uk/sociology (web resources)
Step 4: search the web using these selective search engines:
Intute www.intute.ac.uk/
Intute is arguably the most academically oriented of all the search engines. The creators of Intute have carefully screened and summarized websites for inclusion.
ipl2 www.ipl.org/
ipl2 contains a lower percentage of academic websites than Intute.
B. Plagiarism and The Logic of Citation
It is impossible to discuss the rationale for citing sources without reference to plagiarism, even though the primary reason for including citations is not to prove that you haven’t cheated. It’s essential that you give credit where it’s due as a courtesy to your readers. Along with educating readers about who has said what, citations enable them to find out more about a given position and to pursue other discussions on the subject. Nonetheless, plagiarism is an important issue: academic integrity matters. And because the stakes are very high if you are caught plagiarizing, we will now offer some guidelines on how to avoid it.
In recent years, there has been a significant rise in the number of plagiarism cases nationally. Many commentators blame the Internet, with its easily accessible, easy to cut-and-paste information, for increasing the likelihood of plagiarism. Others cite a lack of clarity about what plagiarism is and why it is a serious problem. So, let’s start by clarifying.
Most people have some idea of what plagiarism is. You already know that it’s against the rules to buy a paper from an Internet “paper mill” or to download others’ words verbatim and hand them in as your own thinking. And you probably know that even if you change a few words and rearrange the sentence structure, you still need to acknowledge the source. Plagiarism gives the impression that you have written or thought something you have in fact borrowed from someone else. It is a form of theft and fraud. Borrowing from someone else, by the way, also includes taking and not acknowledging words and ideas from your friends or your parents. Put another way, any assignment with your name on it signifies that you are the author—that the words and ideas are yours—with any exceptions indicated by source citations and, if you’re quoting, by quotation marks.
Knowing what plagiarism is, however, doesn’t guarantee that you’ll know how to avoid it. Is it okay, for example, to cobble together a series of summaries and paraphrases in a paragraph, provided you include the authors in a bibliography at the end of the paper? Or how about if you insert a single footnote at the end of the paragraph? The answer is that both are still plagiarism because your reader can’t tell where your thinking starts and others’ thinking stops. As a basic rule of thumb, readers must be able to distinguish your contribution from that of your sources, and exactly which information came from which source.
WHY DOES PLAGIARISM MATTER?
A recent survey indicated that 53 percent of Who’s Who High Schoolers thought that plagiarism was no big deal (Sally Cole and Elizabeth Kiss, “What Can We Do About