The Literature on Academic Integrity and Graduate Students: Issues, Solutions, and the Case for a Librarian Role

SUMMARY

Graduate and professional school students face a variety of academic integrity issues and are sometimes academically dishonest. The author surveys the literature of the last decade on graduate student academic integrity, including plagiarism, cheating, falsification, and authorship conflicts, focusing on empirical studies in multiple disciplines, studies that portray issues arising in individual disciplines, and solutions suggested. The author proposes that librarians who serve, teach, and consult with graduate students should develop their instructional role in this area. By becoming aware of the chief academic integrity problems and the subject-discipline related concerns, they can better assist graduate students in the context of information literacy and collaborate with faculty on training and other solutions.

KEYWORDS:

• Academic integrity
• academic dishonesty
• graduate students
• law students
• medical students
• sciences
• social sciences
• humanities
• plagiarism
• falsification
• authorship conflicts
• cheating
• information literacy instruction