The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries are hosting the 2016 Academic Integrity Week features drop-in sessions, presentations and discussions on various topics. All sessions are open to students, staff and faculty.

• Avoiding Accidental Plagiarism: Online tools for Students - Drop-in sessions are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 20 and 22 in the Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons Concerned about citing sources and avoiding accidental plagiarism? Drop-in and talk to a librarian about using SafeAssign and Turnitin to check papers. The consultation area across from the ASKus desk.

• Managing Your Research - Drop-In sessions are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 20, 22 and 23 in Love Library South, Peterson Room Start the semester off right and explore some tools that will help organize articles, and format the in-text citations and bibliography for papers. Bring q laptop and drop-in anytime during the two-hour session. Library experts will provide an overview of the tools and also help set-up a prefered account - RefWorks, Zotero, Mendeley or Endnote.

• Safe Assign, Turnitin, Vericite: Online Tools for Academic Honesty – 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 21 in the Nebraska Union, Regency A Maintaining academic integrity is a vital skill that students of all levels should understand and the University Libraries are here to help both students and faculty in the pursuit of maintaining academic honesty. Associate Professor Signe Boudreau and Research Specialist Anna Wigtil will provide an introduction to SafeAssign, Turnitin and Vericite, three online tools that help students learn the importance of original writing, how to prevent plagiarism and how to properly cite sources.

• Publishing: What Authors Ought to Know – 1 to 2 p.m. Sept. 21 in Love Library, Witt Room Months or years of research, long nights of writing and revising, weeks of waiting for a decision – you just want to sign whatever and get it over with. But down the road, what will that mean? Have you just signed away all your rights for the rest of your life, or are there alternatives? Come, listen and discuss. The panelists are: Paul Royster, Sue Gardner and Linnea Fredrickson

• Using Creative Common Licenses to Share Knowledge – 2 to 3 p.m. Sept. 22 in Love Library South, Peterson Room Creative Commons-licensed resources, including Open Educational Resources, are increasing in popularity among faculty and students. Please join Paul Royster, the university Libraries’ coordinator of scholarly communications and Andrew Cano, the virtual learning librarian to learn more about the different types of Creative Commons licenses and how to correctly incorporate them in your work. Teaching faculty and graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend.

• Narrating Academic Integrity: A Reading and Conversation with Author Jennine Capó Crucet – 4 to 5 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Nebraska Union, Centennial Room “Make Your Home Among Strangers” is the story of Lizet, the daughter of Cuban immigrants in Miami and a first-generation college student. Author and professor of English and Ethnic Studies Jennine Capó Crucet will read selections from her debut novel that focus on Lizet’s challenges in navigating her first year of college, including her experiences as a student charged with plagiarism-when she’s not even entirely sure what that means. Following the reading, Crucet will participate in a conversation about the novel and expanding the types of conversations we have on campus around plagiarism and academic integrity.

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