GEOG 207 - Introduction to Biogeography

About Plagiarism

Plagiarism is in violation of the Academic Integrity policy.  Learn more about academic integrity and plagiarism by taking the new Moodle Student Academic Integrity course. 

See the OC Calendar 'General academic regulations and policies on plagiarism. "Plagiarism is the presentation of another person's work or ideas without proper or complete acknowledgement"    (Okanagan College [OC], 2013, Calendar).

Examples of plagiarism:

• Copying phrases, sentences, pictures, statistics, graphs, videos or other information without citing the source

• Failing to use quotation marks to indicate copied information

• Summarizing or paraphrasing ideas or information without citing the original source

• Listing a source on the References page but failing to refer to the publication within the body of the assignment.

"Students are responsible for learning and applying the proper scholarly practices for acknowledging the work and ideas of others". (OC, 2013, Calendar): This student responsibility applies in all formats (print, online and others).

Paraphrasing is the practice of restating another author's thoughts in one's own words - this is how you protect yourself from being accused of plagiarization.

Paraphrasing is a method that helps you to accurately share someone else's ideas without simply repeating their words verbatim. From a technical perspective, paraphrases typically exhibit a significant equivalence of meaning across a given text length. A paraphrase is a sentence or phrase that conveys the same meaning as another sentence or phrase using a different set of words.

Paraphrasing always requires that you cite the original source

The fair dealing provisions contained in the Canadian Copyright Act permit the use of a copyright-protected work without permission from the copyright owner or the payment of copyright royalties. 

OCtopus content, Research Databases A-Z, E-Journals, eTextbooks, and Course Resources List contain licensed content, most of which is copyrighted protected material. The OC Copyright Fair Dealing Policy is based on the concept of "Fair Dealing." Fair Dealing is a user's right in copyright law that permits using or "dealing" with a copyright-protected work without permission or paying copyright royalties (fees). 

The fair dealing exception in the Copyright Act allows you to use other people’s copyright-protected material for the purpose of research, private study, education, satire, parody, criticism, review or news reporting, provided that what you do with the work is ‘fair.’

The OC Copyright Fair Dealing Policy identifies how much of a copyrighted work can be used (copy) for education, research and private study purposes. 

Note: if your use is for criticism, review or news reporting, you must also mention the source and author of the work for it to be fair dealing.

For further information, see Copyright - Fair Dealing Policy. 

Warning 

You should not upload any content you obtain through the library to an Artificial Intelligence tool. The library signs contracts with different vendors and publishers, which set out specific terms and conditions that users are responsible for complying with when accessing content. While what is permitted is not uniform across all resources, most agreements do not allow for the uploading of copyright-protected works to third-party platforms, including genAI tools. 

In addition, you should never upload personal information about yourself or others to such systems. 

Once you enter practice you should learn about the rules regarding Artificial Intelligence in your workplace.