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CSR Copyright Policy

THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE
PLAGIARISM POLICY AND OTHER INFRINGEMENTS OF ACADEMIC HONESTY

Definition

Students at The College of Saint Rose are expected to be honest in every aspect of their academic work. All work presented as a student’s own must be the product of her or his own efforts. Plagiarism, cheating, academic misconduct, or any other submission of another’s work as one’s own is unacceptable. Students working in groups are each individually responsible for the academic integrity of the entire group project.

Plagiarism includes but is not limited to:

Purchasing, copying, down-loading, printing, or paraphrasing another’s book, article, paper, speech, exam, portfolio, creative work, argument, or any other work and presenting it as one’s own, either in whole or in part.
Incorporating portions of another’s work without proper acknowledgement and documentation.

Academic misconduct includes but is not limited to:

Using means other than academic achievement or merit to influence one’s academic evaluation.
Knowingly providing assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for academic evaluation, including papers, projects, and examinations. A student who writes a paper or does an assignment for another student is an accomplice and must be held accountable just as severely as the other. A student who knowingly permits another student to copy from her or his own paper, examinations, or project should be held as accountable as the student who submits the copied material.
Receiving assistance in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be submitted for academic evaluation, including papers, projects, and examinations.
Presenting as one’s own the ideas or words of another for academic evaluation without proper acknowledgement or documentation.
Presenting the same, or substantially the same, papers or projects in two or more courses without the explicit permission of the instructor(s) involved.
Obtaining and/or reporting research data in an unethical and intentionally misleading manner.

Procedure

It is the responsibility of the course instructor to identify and act upon breaches of academic integrity according to her or his best judgment in conjunction with institutional guidelines.
In cases where the instructor determines that a violation of academic integrity has been committed, she or he will attempt to inform the student and will inform the department chairperson* of the charge and the consequence. Within 2 weeks of notification, the student may request an opportunity to present her or his defense to the instructor.
The course instructor will file a report in the Registrar’s office by either completing an Academic Dishonesty Report Form or by writing a letter.
The report will be retained in a central file in the Registrar’s office.
The Registrar’s Office will send a letter to the student’s Saint Rose email address notifying her or him when a first report has been filed.
If as the result of academic dishonesty, an instructor awards a final course grade of F, the fail will be recorded immediately on the student’s record.
A student may not withdraw to avoid an F which was awarded as a result of academic dishonesty.
If the student elects to appeal the sanction by following the steps outlined in the College’s Academic Grievance procedure, the report will be kept by the Registrar in a “Pending File.”
If the student’s appeal is successful then the Registrar will remove the report from the files.
If the student chooses not to appeal or if the appeal is not successful then the report will be retained in a central file in the Registrar’s office.
The Registrar will refer repeated violations of the standards of academic integrity to the Provost.
A student who has more than one report filed in the Registrar’s Office regarding a violation of the standards of academic integrity may receive sanctions up to, and including, dismissal from the College as determined by the Provost.
*Department chairs will confer with a tenured colleague.

Link To The College's Copyright Page

This Page Was Posted on March 27, 2019

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Copyright FAQs for Faculty

Database Articles

How can I provide articles to my students on Canvas? Can I copy an article in print and distribute it?

Pasting the persistent URL from a CSR database article into Canvas is the best way to make electronically accessible materials available to your students. On or off campus, students will log in using their own username and password to gain access to the article. Ebsco makes it especially easy by providing a Permalink under tools that incorporates authentication so that students can easily access material.

If you plan to distribute a print copy of an article, you may create a one-time photocopy of the article for your class. This can be done only once, after which permission needs to be granted by the publisher/author of the article. You cannot repeatedly copy and distribute a specific article in print each semester to your students. This is in violation of Fair Use because of its impact on the market value, and therefore the rights of the copyright holder. You can also place the print copy of a publication the College subscribes to on reserve in the library.

Articles on the Web

How do I incorporate free articles found on the Web to my students in Canvas?

If an article is located for free on a website, link to the home page of the site the article is in. You can add instructions on how to find the article on that site. By linking to the homepage, you provide attribution and credit of the item. Avoid deep linking to the document directly.

Video/Media Excerpts

What do I need to know about incorporating media into my in-person and online classes?

The library subscribes to a streaming video database called Kanopy that you are allowed by licensing to embed or provide links for in your Canvas courseware. You can show these as well in your face-to-face classes. You are also permitted to show and play media available freely from the world-wide-web as part of your face-to-face in-class activities without the need to get permission. The library has paid for your right to show these films to your class as part of our subscription fee.

What if you can't find the video you would like in Kanopy? The library does have a collection of DVDs available to reserve. Please contact the Reference Desk in the Library for help with that. Also if we don't own it, you can request that we purchase it by clicking here.

Regarding any item recorded directly from television, after showing these items in class they should be destroyed within 45 days. Do not use them each semester. If you want to show a particular program that you recorded yourself every semester, buy a copy of the program. For more information on using broadcast materials in the classroom, consult the ALA page for The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Contact Mike Stratton, the Director of Computer and Media Services and Information Technology Services for more information.

Best Practices and Tools

Additional Resources

Fair Use and Copyright

Teach Act information from the American Library Association

ARL Code of Best Practices: Fair Use “a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. The Code was developed in partnership with the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University. “

Fair Use Evaluator (http://librarycopyright.net/resources/fairuse/ ) : This tool “help users understand how to determine if the use of a protected work is a “fair use.” It helps users collect, organize, and document the information they may need to support a fair use claim, and provides a time-stamped PDF document for the users’ records.”

Exceptions for Instructors eTools (http://librarycopyright.net/resources/exemptions/ ) “Guides users through the educational exceptions in U.S. copyright law, helping to explain and clarify rights and responsibilities for the performance and display of copyrighted content in traditional, distance and blended educational models.”

The Copyright Genie (http://librarycopyright.net/resources/genie/ ) This handy tool will help you determine if a work is covered by US Copyright.

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