This week offered a lot of valuable information.  Most of which I was aware of, especially regarding plagiarism, but I was not familiar with the workings of creative commons or intellectual property.  I found intellectual property to be really interesting, and didn’t mind partaking in the UCLA activity.  It makes sense that people should be allowed the credit for their work, but I didn’t realize how far it went.  For example the confusion about publishing notes taken in a class, and who would that information belong to.  One thing that will help me with plagiarism is the common knowledge policy.  That was sort of something I had assumed, but had not verified.  That will be helpful when researching when finding information that is often repeated. 

1.What did you learn about plagiarism? 

2.What is your definition of academic integrity?

3.What is your definition of Intellectual Property?

4. What did you learn about Creative Commons?

 5. What are open access journals?

#1. The thing that wasn’t necessarily new, but I was reassured about the common knowledge thing.  If information is found without five credible sources it is considered common knowledge and does not have to be quoted directly but credit it given in the references. 

#2. Academic integrity is not knowingly using someone else’s work or ideas as your own, not cheating on an examination, or submitting the same work to satisfy multiple assignments. 

#3. Intellectual property is something someone has created or said that is not patented or trade marked but still belongs to the person who created it. 

#4. Creative commons offers a different approach to the copyright restrictions where authors and creators allow their work to be used in a context that they approve of.  

#5. Open access journals are journals that are online and provided without cost or subscriptions and are generally free of copyright or licensing restrictions.