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Chapter 9:
Legal and Ethical Information Issues

Summary

You should now be able to:

• Identify copyright, fair use, and public domain information issues.
• Define plagiarism and identify examples.
• Identify the need for citing sources in your work.
• Identify the information needed to create a citation for key types of resources.
• Be aware of some privacy and security issues when using information technology.
• Understand some of the issues surrounding the censorship of information and its relationship to the First Amendment.

Expert Advice

Try the following resources for more information:

• You Quote it, You Note it!: An interactive online tutorial from Vaughan Memorial Library at Acadia university.
• Avoiding Plagiarism: The first video in the Research Skills for Students series.