Creation of information and products derived from information requires a commitment of time, original thought, and resources that need to be respected by those seeking to use these products, or create their own based on the work of others.
Learning goals include:
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by A free and open-source reference/citation management software that manages bibliographic data and enables you to add captured data to a personal library and from there create lists of bibliographic references according to different documentation styles.
Properly documenting sources used for your research paper, promotes academic honesty, provides creditability to your arguments and allows the reader to find and consult referenced sources. TII's preferred documentation style is the Modern Language Association (MLA) style of documentation.
The following recommendations are adapted from the Purdue Online Writing Lab tutorials:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/3/
Proofread to ensure that sources are formatted and acknowledged appropriately:
Use quotation marks around short quotes
Set longer quotes off by themselves
Provide a reference to the source and relevant page number(s)
Keep the source author's name in the same sentence as the quote
(See TII MA Thesis Guidelines for more information on quotations)
Other considerations:
When it is not neccessary to use an author's exact words, paraphrase (restate) or summarize (highlight main points) their ideas in your own words but include a reference (author and page number).
Disseminating your research is an important part of the academic process. It provides an opportunity for other researchers, scholars and students to include you in a scholarly conversation and recognise you as a member of an academic discourse community.
Ways of disseminating your research include:
However, certain criteria should be met and concepts understood before disseminating research.
Article 7 of Qatar's Copyright Law protects intellectual property in the following way:
Law No. 7 of 2002 – Law of the Protection of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.
As author of your thesis your work is protected by copyright law and unless you have transferred this right - you have the exclusive right to reproduce, prepare derivative works and distribute it to the public.
The translation and inclusion of large parts of copyright material or private material should not be distributed in digital format without the inclusion of written permission from the copyright owner. This includes extracts from publications such as books or journals, and/or illustrations (images, maps, photographs, tables etc.) and creating derivative works (translations of a work).
Determine who the copyright holder is – author, publisher, illustrator, producer, etc.
Public Domain Materials
Works in the public domain can be used in another work without obtaining permission.
Fair Use
The Berne Convention allows for "fair" uses of copyrighted works in other publications or broadcasts without obtaining prior permission. {Note that in Qatar, local Copyright laws do not include "Fair Use"}
Fair use can be difficult to determine but most descriptions include the following conditions:
Fair use would include the use of copyrighted works in other works for the purpose of education, scholarship, research, news reporting, as well as criticism and commentary.
Fair use is easier to establish with published works. Making someone else's unpublished work public without their consent would not be considered fair use.
This is difficult to establish as no amount is stipulated by different copyright laws.
According to the Copyright Toolkit, fair use would amount to:
Fair use would not support any work that replaced or substituted the copyrighted source and affected the market for the original work.