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Creating Effective Research Assignments: A Guide for Faculty: Legal and Ethical Usage

This guide will provide tips and suggestions for instructors who are looking to improve student performance on research assignments.

Legal & Ethical Source Usage: Common Problems

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As far as could be determined, all resources were legal copies and were ethically accessed	Legal and/or ethical problems are evident

What you're seeing:

Students are using illegal copies of materials (e.g., bootlegged movies on YouTube or foreign-hosted websites)
Students are accessing sources illegally (e.g., #icanhazpdf source trading)

Improving Legal and Ethical Usage of Information Sources

Include a link to the library’s Copyright LibGuide:
- Copyright for Students LibGuide

Link to or embed videos from the Copyright Clearance Center.
- The Center has created a number of helpful videos and made them available online. The following two videos may be particularly useful:
  - Copyright Basics
  - Plagiarism vs. Copyright Infringement: Is There a Difference?

Encourage students to use Reeves Memorial Library's interlibrary loan service.
- Interlibrary loan can be used to obtain needed materials, such as articles, books, or movies, that may not be readily available through other legal means. The Library's Interlibrary Loan tutorial video can easily be embedded in a Canvas course.

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