RE: Turnitin.com and student permission

["Marilyn Billings" <mbillings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Julia,

Take a look at the UMass Amherst library website on plagiarism
 http://www.library.umass.edu/tools/plagiarism/ which describes the services
and provides information for faculty to include in their syllabus and
present in class based on whether they want to have students submit all
papers (recommended) or whether a faculty member will submit suspect papers.

We have negotiated with TurnItIn to have our students papers go into a
separate database that's not accessible by anyone outside the University.
Thus these papers are not part of the database of papers that TurnItIn
checks against for plagiarism. 

Regarding the IP policy for student ownership of the work they produce. We
just finished completely revising the Academic Honesty policy and it's not
yet out. I'll need to get back to you on this topic.

Regards,
Marilyn Billings

Marilyn S. Billings
Scholarly Communication and Special Initiatives Librarian
W.E.B. Du Bois Library
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA  01003
Phone: (413) 545-6891
Fax: (413) 545-6873
Email: mbillings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


> -----Original Message-----
> From: JuliaBuryk@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:JuliaBuryk@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 5:23 PM
> To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Turnitin.com and student permission
> 
> I am curious if other  universities who use Turnitin.com are 
> obtaining permission from student's?
> Further, does your university have a  IP policy that 
> recognizes student ownership of the work they produce? 
> 
> Thank you.