Bo Andrews
In today's modern colleges, students must read through tons of academic journals and articles to complete many projects in a variety of classes. Sites such as Google Scholar and EBSCOhost supply many articles and websites to research necessary topics; however, not all of these websites are free.
Recently, a study cited in the Internet Journal of Medical Informatics reveals thousands of students and professors illegally sharing academic journals. It states 5,500 articles are shared, costing $700,000 of multiple services' revenue. In order to prevent illegal sharing, academic journal servers must take a strong stance.
Similar to Napster many years ago, people are getting information that is not open to the public without paying a fee. Academic journal servers have two options. The first option is to employ a rental program that provides access to an article for a certain amount of time such as Deep Dyve.
The second option is to carefully tract the file sharers by having some an investigator go in and pretend to be a normal student looking for an article. The investigator may find certain illegally shared articles. If he does, he would need to contact a Internet service provider to make a claim about the sharer.
As more colleges use more technology in classes, there is an increase in the risk of copyright and plagiarism. With a more established regulation throughout Internet services, students can legally create original work.
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