Kay Cunningham's List: Academic Integrity

Expose of James Frey's memoir and Oprah book club selection.

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"Elsevier officials said Monday that it was a mistake for the publishing giant's marketing division to offer $25 Amazon gift cards to anyone who would give a new textbook five stars in a review posted on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. While those popular Web sites' customer reviews have long been known to be something less than scientific, and prone to manipulation if an author has friends write on behalf of a new work, the idea that a major academic publisher would attempt to pay for good reviews angered some professors who received the e-mail pitch."

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Elsevier Amazon scholarly_communication academic_integrity publication reviews on 2009-06-23 and saved by 4 people

"News last week that a hoax article was accepted by a purportedly peer-reviewed Open Access journal published by Bentham Science has led to a resignation by the journal’s editor-in-chief as well as a call for ethical practices by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which does not count Bentham as a member."

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open_access scholarly_communication journals hoaxes on 2009-06-19

"A student at San Jose State University says he routinely placed the answers to his computer science homework online, provoking a debate with his professor about whether the practice constituted cheating or even copyright violations.
While the copyright question remains unanswered by San Jose officials, the university’s office of judicial affairs has affirmed that Kyle Brady didn’t cheat by posting answers online after assignments were due. That’s something of a victory for Brady, who says the back-and-forth with his professor over the issue got quite heated."

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academic_integrity copyright internet students on 2009-06-16

"The recipient, John E. Deasy, received the degree in 2004 after having been enrolled in the university for a single semester. Two years earlier, he had been involved in directing a$375,000 grant to a research center that was run by Robert Felner, who was then dean of Louisville’s College of Education and Human Development. Mr. Felner — who stepped down last summer from the Louisville job, as well as from a chancellor’s post he was planning to take in Wisconsin — served as chairman of Mr. Deasy’s dissertation committee."

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academic_integrity graduate_students on 2009-04-22

Image of dissertation with plagiarized sections marked in yellow

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"Some enterprising readers (faculty? student-journalists?) have gone through the dissertations of Carl Boening and William Meehan, highlighting every passage in Meehan's that can be found, word for word, in Boening's. "

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The allegation that Meehan lifted another writer’s work is not new, having surfaced in April as part of a lawsuit that has been widely reported. The anonymously posted graphic, however, does something that journalists across the country have been at pains to do: It visually conveys the extent of the similarities between Meehan’s 118- page dissertation and that of Carl Boening, now a faculty member at Shelton State Community College.

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plagiarism academic_integrity higher_education on 2009-06-03

"Generally, the study found that Turnitin was much more likely than competitor SafeAssign (which is part of Blackboard) to identify material as being potentially not original. But that finding shouldn't necessarily cheer Turnitin. The researchers reported

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plagiarism scientific_literature academic_integrity falsified_data on 2008-11-24 and saved by 3 people

"Devoted specifically to the scholarly, cross-disciplinary study of plagiary and related behaviors across the disciplines, articles in Plagiary address the issue of fraudulent contributions to disciplinary discourse communities and the potential (and actu

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plagiarism online_journals on 2008-11-23 and saved by 14 people