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Resources and advice for students and researchers
Are you a teacher or a teaching assistant? Are you wondering whether you can copy and share articles or PDFs with your students? Our legal librarian Céline Vilmen tells you everything you need to know before distributing or uploading documents to your Moodle platform.
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You probably all know what plagiarism is: using someone else’s work without giving them proper credit. It is a form of theft, a serious breach of academic ethics, and is heavily sanctioned, for students and for researchers alike. But what is the meaning the word “self-plagiarism”? You cannot steal from yourself! Our colleague Catherine Brendow explains.
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The Graduate Institute has a very active podcast scene, and it is sometimes hard to know which external materials you can or cannot include in your episodes. Here is a brief explainer based on the work of Céline Vilmen, our law librarian and copyright specialist.
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Many scholars are confused and do not know if they can or should upload the pdfs of their articles on academic social media websites such as Researchgate or academia.edu. Our colleague Catherine Brendow tries to clear things up.
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Do you know how copyright affects your work as the author of a PhD thesis at the Graduate Institute? Our law librarian Céline Vilmen tells you everything you need to know about your thesis and its protection under Swiss copyright law.
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