Referencing in New Zealand Universities

The link here is to a liveBinder on the subject 

Link to Live Binder Referencing in New Zealand Universities 

Note the tool used by all the Universities listed in the binder is "endnote". It is generally provided to students by the Universities. The tools tag in the binder provides some information on "endnote" and its free alternative Zotero a free research tool that enables the collection, management , and citing  of research sources. Initially Zotero worked only with the Firefox browser but the latest version, Zotero 3.0, also works with Safari and Google Chrome browsers (not Internet Explorer) and there is a standalone version.  You can download the various necessary components from the Zotero website:

Canterbury Universities APA Guide

Link to Canterbury University Page on referencing

Canterbury University has an online tutorial you may like to try?

• Why Cite?
• When Should I cite?
• What is APA Style?
• In-text Citations
• Direct Quotes
• Reference List
• More Information

They suggest students avoid plagiarism by directing readers to the original sources,  

• so the readers can find further information or check the information for themselves
• to improve the credibility and authority of their own work
• avoid losing marks.

Source:  http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/infolit/tutorials/citing/index.shtml

Thanks to : Ms Cooney for finding this resource

Content Curation

Content Curation is 

Searching for, Organising and sharing of information, that is

On going (Constantly updated and current)
Valid (Useful, trustworthy, correctly credited, information)
Helpful (New understandings are created)
Specific (Focused on the topic and its intended audience)


There are many tools to help in your content creation 

Google Bookmarks
My portfolio
Google sites
Google plus
Blogger

These are useful as MBC and MGC students already have accounts with SSO logon.

There are also many tools on the web

Live Binders - Evernote - Pinterist - Scoopit being just a few they however require individua accounts

Link to Live Binder on Content Curation

Copyright

What is Copyright?

Copyright describes a set of exclusive rights that are given to owners of

•     written works including emails, training manuals, novels and song lyrics; tables and compilations including multimedia works, and computer programs

•     dramatic works including dance, mime and film scenarios or scripts

•     musical works including the score and sheet music

•      artistic works including paintings, drawings, diagrams, maps, models, photographs and sculptures 

•     sound recordings separate to the actual music or story

•     films  any genre or format, separate from the underlying script, music or broadcast

•      communication works including radio and television broadcasts and internet webcasts

•      typographical arrangements of published editions

  Note that 

• copyright is an automatic right, which doesn’t need to be registered by the owner, it exist as soon as something is created, performed or published, as long as the work is original, and comes under one of the qualifying categories

• the owner may not be the creator of the work for example the resources created by a teacher belong to the school (The Board of Trustees) not the teacher who created them

There are some exceptions, such as limited copying of documents for use in a library, or research or the copying of a work for its translation into Braille, or where the sound recording is for personal use (sometimes called format shifting).

Related topics are Plagiarism,  Creative Commons and File Sharing


Source: http://www.netsafe.org.nz/what-is-copyright/


How long does copyright last?

• For literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works - 50 years after the author died.
• For sound recordings and films  - 50 years after it was made. However, if the work is made available to the public before the end of that 50 year period, copyright continues for 50 years after it was made available.
• For a communication work - 50 years after  it was first communicated to the public. Copyright in a repeated communication work expires at the same time as copyright in the initial communication work expires.
• A publisher's copyright in the typography of a published edition  - 25 years after  the work was first published.

All are to the end of the calendar year in which the terminating condition applies

Source : http://www.copyright.org.nz/basics.php

As a researcher or producer of work you need to take great care when using others work that you do not breach their copyright

If in doubt ask the copyright holder

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is using someone else's work without acknowledging the source of that work. 

Plagiarism is easier and in some ways more tempting when using digital technologies, it is also easier to find. 

These are some of the tools that can be used to check for plagiarism. These are free tools many schools and all universities and polytechnics have some very sophisticated technology for finding plagiarism. 

1- Plagium

2- Turnitin

3- Dupli Checker

4- iThenticate

This is not a free service but there are some interesting papers and research on plagiarism.

iThenticate is a service offered by Plagiarism.org,  geared more toward professional writing and scholarly research. Publishers like Oxford University Press use iThenticate for its Cross Check software, which includes a database of more than 31 million articles and 67,664 books and journals.


5- Plagiarism Checker

PlagiarismChecker.com makes it simple for educators to check for copied work by pasting phrases from a student's paper into a search box. The system can search through either Google or Yahoo.

6- Plagiarismdetect

A few clicks and your text will be checked for plagiarism. Firstly, you upload your text (paste it to the checking area or upload a file). Then the system breaks it into small linguistic units and checks it for similarities against all the websites that are open for indexation and also our private database.

7-Plagiarisma.net

Plagiarisma has a search box as well as a software download available for Windows. Users can also search for entire URLs and files in HTML, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, ODT and PDF formats.

8- Eve Plagiarism Detection System

One of the older services on this list, having performed almost 150 million scans since its creation in 2000. It charges   $29.99 for unlimited use.

Source: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/06/top-8-plagiarism-detector-tools-for.html

Quick Guide To Bibliography Format

The APA (American Psychological Association) format is shown below. A commonly used alternative is also shown. These  formats are widely used in schools and tertiary institutions. Bibliographies must include an author, date, publisher and place of publication. This information can be found on the back of the title page. Journal articles need to include the journal title, issue number and page numbers. Web sites and sources should include the web site address and the date the information was retrieved. Your bibliography should be in alphabetical order by the author’s surname unless specified otherwise by your teacher.

Good practice is to compile your bibliography as you do your research.

Use the examples below to format your bibliography.

BOOKS

Peat, N. (2006). Kiwi: the people’s bird. Dunedin, N.Z.: Otago University Press.

Alternatively, you could record the information:

Peat N Kiwi: the People’s Bird, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2006

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Barnett, S. (2007). Wild Kiwi chase. New Zealand Geographic, 85, 46-55.

Alternatively, you could record the information:

Barnett, S. Wild Kiwi chase. New Zealand Geographic, 85, 46-55(2007).

ENCYCLOPEDIA  ARTICLE

Fitzpatrick, J. (2004). Kiwi. In The World Book Encyclopedia, (Vol. 11, p. 342). Chicago, U.S.: World Book.

Alternatively, you could record the information:

Fitzpatrick, J Kiwi.  The World Book Encyclopedia, (Vol. 11, p. 342). Chicago, U.S.: World Book. (2004).

WEBSITE REFERENCE

Kiwi Conservation Club. (2004). The Kiwi. Retrieved June 24, 2008, from http://www.kcc.org.nz/birds/kiwi.asp

JOURNAL ARTICLE FROM A DATABASE

Feldman, R. (2007). Animals angles. Odyssey, 16(4), 49-49. Retrieved July 1,                           

2008, from MasterFILE Premier database.

ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA

McGowan, K. (2008). Kiwi. In World Book Reference Centre. Retrieved July 2, 2008, from http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar302160>

Your bibliography will look like this:

Barnett, S. (2007). Wild Kiwi chase. New Zealand Geographic, 85, 46-55.

Feldman, R. (2007). Animals angles. Odyssey, 16(4), 49-49. Retrieved July 1,                           

   2008, from MasterFILE Premier database.

Fitzpatrick, J. (2004). Kiwi. In The World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago, U.S.: World Book.

      Kiwi Conservation Club. (2004). The Kiwi. Retrieved June 24, 2008, from

      http://www.kcc.org.nz/birds/kiwi.asp

McGowan, K. (2008). Kiwi. In World Book Reference Centre. Retrieved July 2, 2008, from  

      http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar302160>

Peat, N. (2006). Kiwi: the people’s bird. Dunedin, N.Z.: Otago University Press.

Thanks to Mr Clark MBC Social Sciences

Bibliography Generators

There are really no excuses for not citing others work and creating a bibliography

There are numerous software programmes that can be used to construct a bibliography.

Free, online Bibliography generators include

http://www.bibme.org/
Useful tool. If you register then you can export to a rtf fil which can be edited in a wordprocessor for inclusion in you research.

http://www.citethisforme.com/
It allows you to generate and organize your citations. They can then be downloaded to word or simply copied and pasted.

Pay, online Bibliography generators include

http://www.easybib.com/
There is a free trial available


There are also some useful tools in Google bookmarks, Google Bookmarks are enabled in your school Google Apps account. Google book marks will allow you to quickly collect websites  visited,  one click. The list generated can later be edited into a bibliography or used as a simple list for future reference.

1: Visit link below to get an overview of google bookmarks.

About Google Bookmarks - Bookmarks Help

2: Visit link on labels they are a useful function, as they allow grouping of bookmarks. 

Labels and lists - Bookmarks Help

Getting google bookmarks onto your bookmarks bar
The instructions are at the site below 

Bookmarking sites - Bookmarks Help

Note : Tested with Firefox and Chrome

Giles Lancaster