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Faculty Resources and Services
Information and Library Services (ILS) provides an array of resources and services in support of faculty instructional activities. If you have any questions, please contact us at library@umuc.edu.
Academic Integrity and Copyright
You may be able to legally and ethically use new and innovative materials in your class to enhance your students' learning. The ILS guide linked below offers guidance on copyright issues for faculty and students, including fair use in the classroom. For more information, please see our guide to Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and on the World Wide Web.
Center for Intellectual Property
The Center for Intellectual Property provides a wealth of information on current copyright issues, as well as tutorials and learning objects, workshops and seminars for a national and international audience, and an intellectual property resource specialist.The UMUC Center for Intellectual Property's Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory (VAIL) is a portal for both faculty and students on plagiarism, citation, and it includes information on how to prevent and detect it. You can use the VAIL Faculty and Administrator Resources for guides on preventing academic dishonesty and designing assignments, plagiarism alarms and signals, detection tools and methods, and more.
ILS provides a subscription to a service called Turnitin.com, which can help you identify plagiarism in your students' assignments. You can use Turnitin.com to review student assignments for plagiarism. You can also allow your students to check their own papers to get a better sense of how to avoid inadvertent plagiarism.
UMUC's Effective Writing Center offers suggestions for Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism. You may want to refer your students to the Effective Writing Center's tutorial How to Avoid Plagiarism to stress the importance of doing original research and citing text properly.
Library Instruction
Course-related Library Instruction
UMUC librarians are available to visit UMUC courses in both face-to-face format (in the Washington DC metropolitan area) and via WebTycho. Online visits usually last for one week. Online and face-to-face sessions include searching and database selection tips and techniques, critical evaluation of resources, and citation assistance. An active learning exercise can also be included to provide reinforcement of the materials covered to give students a chance to explore relevant resources with a librarian available to answer questions. The librarian will work with you to tailor this instruction session to meet your instructional content needs. Our experiences show that a library instruction session provides more confidence and utilization of better quality research resources. To schedule a library instruction session, please complete and submit the instruction request form. Please note that because of the volume of requests received and the time needed to tailor the instruction content we ask that requests be submitted no later than two weeks before the scheduled session.
Information Literacy Resources
Assignments can be designed to promote critical thinking and higher order competencies in information literacy. The resources linked below outline UMUC's information literacy requirements and objectives and offer suggestions for incorporating information literacy into courses.
Under the auspices of the Center for Teaching and Learning, ILS occasionally offers workshops on a variety of topics. Past topics have included advanced database searching, citation, using e-reserves, Turnitin.com plagiarism detection service, e-books, and more. Check with the UMUC Center for Teaching and Learning or the ILS homepage for current offerings.
Virtual Library Classroom (VLIB101)
The Virtual Library Classroom (VLIB101) is a WebTycho "classroom" or workspace where students, faculty and staff can practice their research skills with the help of librarians offering tips and guidance. The class is self-paced, and librarians check in frequently to answer questions.You can use VLIB101 as a workspace for a librarian to provide instruction supporting a required research assignment. Students will self-roster into VLIB101 and join an instructional session customized to meet their research needs. E-mail us at library@umuc.edu for further details.
Library Services
Posting articles and other materials in the WebTycho classroom without the permission of the copyright owner is a violation of copyright laws. The ILS E-Reserves service can acquire copyright clearance and post articles or book chapters directly in your WebTycho or WebTycho-enhanced classroom.
Print Reserves at Dorsey Station
Faculty teaching face-to-face or hybrid classes at Dorsey Station may request items not eligible for electronic reserve be put on reserve at the Dorsey Station library location. Please note that physical reserves are only available at Dorsey Station library.
Articles and Book Chapters
UMUC faculty, students or staff can request articles not available in full-text in a UMUC library database, as well as book chapters and tables of contents to be delivered electronically via the library's DocumentExpress service.Books
Faculty who do not live near UMUC may request books for delivery. The services available depend on your location. To find out what delivery services that are available to you, please see our guide called Get It Delivered or contact us using the contact options available on our Ask a Librarian page.
Research help is available online and face-to-face to UMUC faculty, students and staff. Depending on your location, there are several options for contacting a librarian. Chat and email are available 24/7. Please do not hesitate to contact us. We are happy to help.
- Chat in real-time
- Telephone
- Walk-in or set up an appointment for assistance in locating discipline-specific resources available through the UMUC library
Throughout the semester or term, reference librarians can help your students navigate particular databases and the library catalog for the best possible research materials. You may want to make students aware of this service when you give them a research assignment.