1 1 The State of Plagiarism Today The Internet is the most amazing information equalizer of our time. We are creating more information and viewing more digital information than ever before. It has created a drastic change for research, which has not been fully addressed by teachers and librarians. There is a dramatic differ- ence between walking into a library to check out a book for research and reading a website for a similar purpose. Authorship and publication exist indefinitely in a stable, fixed format for published books. Anyone with a device and Internet connection has immediate and continuous access from anywhere to large amounts of information on many different topics through websites. This has changed the idea of authorship and publication forever. Students view so much digital information through phones and other personal devices that it all can “read” the same, even when the infor- mation is from very different source types. Authorship and publication boundaries begin to blur when these digital sources are consumed in large quantities with unrestricted access.
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