Copyright

Students may require copies of both print and digital material to support their course of work. Individual photocopying and downloading of material for educational purposes is covered under Fair Dealing terms of Irish Copyright legislation. Further to this ATU Sligo is bound by the terms and conditions of the ICLA Educational Licence. It is up to each student and staff member to ensure that their actions comply with these terms and conditions.

Students should become familiar with the limits to copying material. They are:

• 1 chapter from a book
• 1 scene from a play
• 1 poem or short story less than 10 pages in length
• 1 article magazine/journal
• 1 paper from conference proceedings
• 1 report case from a volume of judicial proceedings

or  10% of the same publication (which is determined by 10% of the total number of pages), whichever is greater.

The equivalent amount can be downloaded from a website.

See the ICLA Higher Education User Guidelines for further details.

Referencing Introduction

When you use information or ideas created by other people in your essays or assignments, you need to let readers know you have done this.

Copying something written by another person and putting it into your assignment as if it is your own work is known as PLAGIARISM.  You are not allowed to do this in college.

There are two basic types of referencing system:

Author Date  This is also known as the Harvard Referencing System

Numbered Notes  Such as The British Journal of Nutrition style