Teaching Resources


Library Resource Guides
Instructional Support
Web in the Classroom
Information Literacy
Plagiarism
Copyright
Documentation of Sources


Library Resource Guides

 Subject Guides to Library Resources
Subject guides keep students and faculty apprised of print and electronic resources available in the U of M Libraries.

How to Find Books
Instructions on using the U of M Library Catalog and how to locate books in the U of M Libraries.

How to Find Periodicals
Guide to finding periodical holdings and locations in the U of M Libraries.

How to Find Articles in Periodicals
Guide to using electronic databases to find articles in periodicals and how to locate the periodicals in the U of M Libraries.

Periodical Index Databases By Academic Area
Databases that index periodicals are listed by academic disciplines. The list contains brief content descriptions and links directly to the databases.

Instructional Support

 Virtual Salt
Robert Harris, Professor of English at Southern California College in Costa Mesa, has created a series of pages and links containing excellent advice on searching the Internet, teaching, writing, and other related topics.

Making the Library Work for You
Ways faculty can help their students succeed in the U of M Libraries.

Keys to Designing Effective Assignments
A guide that includes "basic ideas to consider when preparing assignments (Part 1) in addition to tips for enhancing library research assignments (Part 2)."

Web in the Classroom

 Library Resources for Online Courses
Betsy Park, Head of Reference, The University of Memphis Libraries, tells how faculty can weave links to library resources into their WebCT pages

Weaving Your Assignments into the Web
Librarians at North Harris College (Houston, Texas) developed this site to "aid faculty interested in developing assignments that incorporate web site information." The four parts cover "Benefits of Web Research," "Ideas for Assignments," "Assignment Tips," and "Articles for Further Study."

New Chalk
This bi-weekly online newsletter, produced by Information Technology Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is devoted to giving "real, practical examples of how instructors use (networked instructional) technology in their teaching."

The Technology Source
A Webzine, edited by Dr. James L. Morrison at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focuses on integrating information technology tools in educational organizations.

WWW 4 Teachers
This site, run by the South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium, is mainly for K-12 teachers, but is also useful for college professors who need ideas to begin incorporating Web technology into their instruction. It includes a glossary of internet terms.

Information Literacy

 Information Literacy
This site defines information literacy and provides a rationale for teaching it. Includes links.

The Information Sage: Working Smart in the Information Age
Provides information for U of M students and faculty about getting and using information on and off campus. Includes an information literacy checklist and tutorial

Information Literacy as a Liberal Art: Enlightenment proposals for a new curriculum
This is an article from Educom Review (March/April 1996) by Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes.

American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report
This 1989 report defines and establishes a rationale for information literacy. In 1998 the committee issued A Progress Report on Information Literacy: An Update on the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report

Plagiarism

 A Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism (University of Alberta)
Tami Oliphant and Denise Koufogiannakis, Univeristy of Alberta Libraries, created this site to "examine the issues of plagiarism and cyber-plagiarism and what faculty can do to prevent, detect, and report plagiarism." It also includes a link to handouts for students.

Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Library Instruction Coordinator at Illinois State University, has put together information and links about plagiarism from web resources. She also includes a bibliography for further reading.

Virtual Salt: Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
Robert Harris, an English professor for 25 years, recommends strategies for faculty to help "encourage students to value the assignment and to do their own work."

Writing Place Tips for Writers: Avoiding Plagiarism
The Writing Place at Northwestern University has some good advice for students to help them avoid plagiarism.

Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
This helpful page, provided by Writing Tutorial Services at Indiana University Bloomington, gives examples of acceptable and unacceptable paraphrasing.

Copyright

 Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians.
This segment of the copyright law answers many questions asked by faculty about providing copies of materials for instructional purposes. See United States Copyright Office (The Library of Congress) for more information about current copyright laws and legislation as well as information (and forms) for copyright applications.

Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment
A document "prepared by the Committee on Libraries and Intellectual Property of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) in an effort to build consensus within the educational community on the uses of copyrighted works in the digital environment."

Copyright and Intellectual Property
This ARL page, a table of contents to sites on copyright, includes links to information regarding pending database legislation called the Collection of Information Antipiracy Act.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Status & Analysis
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has created this site to educate individuals about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which updates the copyright act to deal with selective copyright issues. Three sections provide links to papers, reports and hearings regarding compliance, distance education and preservation issues.

What Colleges and Universities Need to Know about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
This article by Casey Lide was published in CAUSE/EFFECT journal, Volume 22, Number 1, 1999. Lide "focuses on two sections of particular importance to institutional administrators and copyright commissions: (1) limitations on infringement liability for 'service providers,' and (2) prohibitions on circumvention of technological protection measures (TPMs)."

10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained
A straight-forward essay by Brad Templeton, in "an attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and [to] cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication." This essay provides links to discussions of related issues, such as linking rights.

WIPO Copyright Treaty
Text of the World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty from the Geneva Diplomatic Conference, December 2 to 20, 1996.

University of Tennessee Crash Course in Copyright
Easy-to-use site for learning about academic issues relating to copyright.

Documentation of Sources

 Style Manuals & Guides
A list of style manuals and guides available in print at the U of M Libraries. It also provides links to guides on the web.

Electronic References and Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources
Provided by Griffith University in Australia, this document aims "to keep track of materials dealing with the emerging standards for electronic references and scholarly citations of Internet Sources in both paper and online publications."

Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age
Provides guides for finding and documenting sources for humanities (MLA), social sciences (APA), sciences (CBE) and history (Chicago).

MLA Style
The web site of the Modern Language Association gives the official MLA version of citing online sources with examples for various kinds of web pages.

APA Style Resources


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