Scholarly Communication Tools

• Creative Commons licensing - provides free tools that allow authors, scientists, artists, and educators to easily mark their creative work with licensing freedoms.
• Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) - an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
• Understanding Author Rights (ACRL webcast)

Copyright / Plagiarism / Turnitin Services
Guidance, classes, and plagiarism-detection tools

• Copyright Information Center (Cornell University)
• Copyright Law & Graduate Research (for graduate students) ProQuest Information & Learning.
• Copyright & Plagiarism Comprehensive Resources (Wallace Library) - resources, tutorials, articles.
• Scholar’s Copyright Project (Science Commons) Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine assists authors to create a rights’ addendum.
• Faculty and Staff Guidelines for the Use of Copyrighted Materials at RIT
• Know Your Copy Rights (ACRL brochure)
• TurnitIn: FACULTY, have you tried the Turnitin.com plagiarism-detection service offered by the Wallace Library? Recognized worldwide as the standard in online plagiarism prevention, Turnitin helps educators and students take full advantage of the Internet's educational potential. Turnitin checks for originality and proper paraphrasing, citing, and the judicious use of quotes in student work, improves student writing and research skills, and saves valuable instructor time. The Wallace Library views this service as a tool to assist instructors in detecting and deterring plagiarism and having the ability to educate students on the proper use of intellectual property. Questions or account information is available at the Publishing & Scholarship Support Center (585) 475-7713 or contact Marianne Buehler at mabwml@rit.edu or (585) 475-5589.
  

Citation Guides & Bibliographic Tools
Bibliography / Citation / EndNote Web / NoodleBib assistance
PSSC staff is available to assist with citations and the use of bibliographic tools.

• Citation Guides
  • APA & MLA Style Guides - web guides, streamed PowerPoint tutorials and manuals available in the Library.
  • Chicago Style (Quick Guide)
  • Chicago (Full Guide)
  • Formats for Citing References Styles - ACS, AIP, AMA, APA, ASA, Chicago, CBE, Harvard System & Turabian style.
  • IEEE (Quick guide)
  • IEEE (Full Guide)
• Bibliographic Tools
  • EndNote Web - a web-based service designed to help students and researchers organize their references for citing resources.
  • NoodleBib - an online MLA and APA citation-builder.
  • Word 2007 - automatically generate a bibliography based on the source information that you provide for in a document.
  • Zotero Firefox - open source bibliographic database that works as a Firefox extension.

• Wallace Library Guide to Writing Resources
• Guide for Writing Research Papers (Capital Community College) - based on styles recommended by the APA & MLA.
• Guide to Grammar and Style (Rutgers)
• Hints on Technical Report Writing (Dublin City University)
• Plagiarism (UC Davis) - many good examples/ideas for paraphrasing and citing
• Technical Report Writing (NASA)
• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Washington College)
• The Writing Workshop (New York University)
• Writing a Research Paper (Purdue University)
• Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation (various academic authors)
• Writing Theses and Dissertations (Claremont College)

PSSC Referral Services

• Academic Support Center (ASC)
• PSSC Referrals - contact us for referrals to copyediting, graphic design, etc.
• RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press & RIT Press
• RIT English Language Center

• RIT Events Calendar (PSSC workshops are listed here)