Academic Integrity & Citations

Academic integrity means practicing honesty and honour when engaging with your academics. Learn about citation, being responsible for your work, crediting the work of others, and concrete steps to ensuring academic integrity, below.
What does it mean to have integrity as a student? Learn about the ethics of research and understand plagiarism better.
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What is copyright, and how does it affect you? Learn how to understand copyright and properly use images, songs, videos, and more.
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Learn how to use different citation styles to connect your work to the research of others.
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Need help citing images, videos, gifs and other media? The answers to all your questions are more are here.
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Learn how to cite data to connect your work to the research of others.
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by Johnson on October 2, 2020
How can you tell whether what you see in the media is genuine?
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by Minori on February 7, 2020
I’ve put together some common issues and solutions for research that you might run into. I hope this can help guide you to the tools and resources that are available to you!
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by flint patterson on June 14, 2018
Academic integrity often seems like a rather nebulous concept to incoming university students. The term sounds strong, but it is also incredibly vague. The result is that many simply embrace the “I know it when I see it” approach to something which really ought to be approached with care. As scholars at a public research […]
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by Nick Thorton on March 16, 2016
You've probably heard about academic integrity during your time at UBC. But what does it mean and how do you do it?
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