The UGResearch Team keeps a log of each and every paper that a member downloads. These records can and will be supplied to any professor upon request. We seek to have our electronic library serve as a resource to promote research at the undergraduate level in an ethical and academic manner.

Plagiarism is the failure to provide proper acknowledgment of the use of another's work, regardless of intent. In its most blatant form, this involves copying another’s work verbatim and using it as your own. More subtly, one can plagiarize by paraphrasing or simply taking someone else’s original idea without giving them proper credit. Plagiarism is stealing.

Unfortunately, the Internet has become a breeding ground for plagiarism. Websites offer previous work for sale, or will even write an original document on any subject for the right price.

UGResearch.org is built in direct opposition to such websites. Whereas plagiarism sites seek to undermine the work of others, UGReasearch.org gives students the public credit their research deserves. By putting undergraduate work in the open, teachers that question the validity of a student’s work can search our database and find the source of the plagiarized paper.

If you are a teacher and concerned about plagiarism, the following are some simple, yet helpful hints for detecting plagiarized work:

• Look for papers that are only loosely related to the assigned topic or material of the course, particularly if the student did not ask permission to write on the subject.
• Look for different fonts or sizes in the text. This is often a sign that the author copied and pasted the section from a previous work.
• Subtle ways of detecting plagiarism are to look at style and quality. Most authors have a unique voice; if certain paragraphs or pages have noticeably different styles or quality, it may be a sign that the author copied and pasted the section from a previous work.

For questions or concerns, please contact us at TheManagement@ugresearch.org.

APA
Noteboom, P. (2005). Guerrillas and Commercial Production: The Effect of Natural Resources on the Organization of Guerrilla Groups. Undergraduate thesis, Dartmouth College. Retrieved June 6, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://www.ugresearch.org.

MLA
Noteboom, Peter. "Guerrillas and Commercial Production: The Effect of Natural Resources on the Organization of Guerrilla Groups." Undergraduate thesis, Dartmouth College, 2005. 6 June. 2005. : http://www.ugresearch.org.

For more information on properly citing material, please refer to the following link at Dartmouth College: Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement, which provides a comprehensive source for citations.