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Regent University affirms that its educational mission includes the encouragement of its faculty, administrators, and other employees, as well as its students, to originate and to publish scholarly and creative works in a variety of media of expression
(Faculty and Academic Policy Handbook).

The Regent University community of teachers and scholars affirms that the biblical principles of truth and honesty are absolutely essential. Indeed, the Bible contains numerous admonitions against false witness, dishonesty and cheating. Upholding the standard of academic integrity with its reliance on
honesty is a responsibility of both faculty and students.
Conduct that violates academic integrity includes:
1. Dishonesty. This is lack of integrity exhibited through lying, cheating, defrauding or deceiving....
2. Plagiarism. This is stealing or using the ideas or writings of another as one's own. It involves failure to acknowledge material copied from others or failure to acknowledge one's indebtedness to another for the gist of important thoughts in a formal statement, written or oral.
(Faculty and Academic Policy Handbook, Academic Integrity (4:02:01)

The Faculty and Academic Policy Handbook gives general guidelines for World Wide Web Page Publishing.

In addition, Regent University will adhere to the following guidelines regarding copyright:

1. Personal webpages must be distinct from official university pages. Personal pages must not use the Regent University banners or other logo that would imply university endorsement of the page.

2. Personal webpages must contain the author's name and a link to an email address or other means by which the author can be contacted.

3. Personal webpages must uphold the standard of academic integrity with its reliance on honesty.

4. Personal webpages must respect the intellectual property rights of others. It is the author's responsibility to obtain proper permissions when using copyrighted work in any format.

5. If hyperlinking to webpages other than your own, the name of the author/institution/organization should be clearly visible on the linked page or authorship should be noted in the hyperlink.

6. If notice is received that an author/institution/organization to which you are hyperlinking objects to the link, the link must be removed immediately.

7. Neither RUCS (Regent University Computing Services) nor the Webmaster will provide technical support for personal webpages.

8. Publishing webpages on the University server is a privilege not a right. The University reserves the right to remove any webpages that do not comply with University policies.

Resources:
Brad Templeton in 10 Big Myths about copyright explained covers many issues relating to copyright and webpages.
Benedict O'Mahoney's The Copyright Website has an excellent resource on Digital Copyright issues especially Web Issues.

This page created by Regent University Library; updated 2002
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