Week 6 Blog on items such as academic integrity

While I deal with Intellectual Property on a daily basis, what I deal with is around product and brand related issues rather than written concepts.  So some of this was interesting in the differences between how I think about securing software code vs more intellectual endeavors.

What did you learn about plagiarism? 

This is a fairly straight forward.  The new items are around the citations.  In the past when I have used content I have used quotes and footnotes which I thought were clear. Without the proper citations a black and white definition would consider this to be plagiarism.

What is your definition of academic integrity?

Some of these teams can have very explicit definitions, but when you really get down to it a person should know if they are trying to get away with something.  If you are copying someone else’s paper, then you are avoiding doing your own.  Students should do the work, do their own work, and stand behind their work.  This to me shows integrity.

What is your definition of Intellectual Property?

Unlike physical property, there may not be a physical object with Intellectual property.  To me this is any idea, design, or written piece which brings value to someone either by itself or by realizing that idea in a physical object.  For example a Story could be told verbally or could be printed in a book to be made physical.  A consumer would own the book but the author owns the Intellectual property which could be used to write more books.

 What did you learn about Creative Commons?

Only that it works in conjunction with standard copy write to allow content owners to share their content with the public under different terms.

 What are open access journals?

These are peer reviewed papers that are available to readers without having to pay a fee or join a service legally.  They are available via a number of front end search engines on the internet.  Connecting to one of those search engines is the only requirement for accessing the journals.