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Be Warned! - Degree mills are bogus universities selling fake diplomas. Paper mills are online databases selling research papers of dubious quality and copyright from student "cheat sites" that inevitably promote plagiarism. We do not link directly to any of these sites and attempt to block their advertising.

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• Bates College (US), Plagiarism Resource Site - resources to help faculty & students get their bearings, clearinghouse for info on plagiarism, especially concerned with news, developments & resources that consider issue in context of undergraduate teaching & learning: bibliography, style guides, tutorials, weblog, news feed, feedback

• Coastal Carolina U (US), Cheating: Paper Mills and You - aimed at providing faculty with overview of current state of internet paper mills, how to (locate paper mills, detect plagiarized papers, track down suspicious papers, combat plagiarism): plagiarism detection sites, sources, other plagiarism sites

• Dalhousie U (CA), "But I changed some of the words!, "Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism - Web presentation of audio & images: demonstration, detection & prevention

• DegreeInfo.com (US), Diploma Mills - Fraud in Higher Education - (article)

• Illinois U (US), unconventional university diplomas from online vendors - buying a Ph.D. from a university that doesn't exist: first contact with the university degree program, checking out Parkwood University, mapping the UDP family tree, who's out there, verifying credentials of a UDP client, degrees of fraud, notes & more info

• Lucent Technologies (US) - results of inquiry into the validity of certain physics research papers from Bell labs, independent committee finds one researcher committed scientific misconduct, clears the 19 other authors investigated

• JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service (UK) - provides generic advice & guidance on all aspects of plagiarism prevention & detection to institutions, academics & students: discussion forum. news. events & workshops, press releases, advice & guidance, detection services, external resources

• Plagiarism.org (US) - latest information on online plagiarism, plagiarism detection services: plagiarism today, statistics education, technology

• Quackwatch (US), Degree Mills - (article)

• Standler, Ronald B. (US), Plagiarism in Colleges in USA - sources of plagiarized works, law of plagiarism, statutes on sale of term papers, cases involving plagiarism in colleges, cases against commercial sources, suggestions for policy, colleges have right to rescind degrees, no plagiarism for ideas, self-plagiarism, threat of litigation against reporters of plagiarization, links

• RutgersU (US), Plagiarism and Academic Integrity - interactive lesson about avoiding infractions of academic integrity policies & plagiarism

• Virginia Tech (US), Plagiarism and Honor - plagiarism module for students: definition, examples, honor code, honor system guided tour, self-test, honesty in writing project

• Western Illinois U (US), Plagiarism and the Web (article) - plagiarism is a perennial temptation for students and an eternal challenge for teachers