Academic integrity

We can visit your class or meet with students individually to teach ethical and accurate research, citation, and documentation practices.

• Our workshops on citation management or research and digital literacy skills, as well as our assignment help resources, can help students avoid making errors in judgement.
• A consultation with a librarian can help students build ethical research skills.

• Refer students to our quick and full guides for your preferred citation style.
• Refer students to Ask Us for help tracking sources and crafting citations.
• Share our guide to avoiding plagiarism in research in your Brightspace course and syllabus.
• Invite your liaison librarian to teach students about citating and organizing sources.
• Recommend students adopt Zotero, a free citation management tool, to stay organized.

• Share our tutorial on Generative AI and Ethical Student Research in your Brightspace course and syllabus. With advance notice, we may be able to tailor this to your course or discipline.
• Review with students our guide on Ethical Use of GenAI and share or reproduce it in your course materials.
• Share our downloadable presentation on ethical use of GenAI in your Brightspace course. With advance notice, we may be able to tailor this to your course or discipline.
• Invite your liaison librarian to teach students how to check citations and claims made by generative AI tools, and critically evaluate AI outputs with frameworks like Three Layer Verification or the ROBOT test.

Invite your liaison librarian to teach students to:

• locate original sources to check claims from secondary sources
• avoid pirated information or unauthorized publishing sites such as Sci-Hub
• find and use credible sources such as peer reviewed journals, government publications, grey literature, or legitimate news sources

• Direct students to our no-cost textbook list.
• Place your own course readings on reserve in Brightspace or the library using our easy online system.
• Invite your liaison librarian to teach students to get paywalled books and articles for free, using their UVic login, Google Scholar with UVic Links, or the Libkey Nomad Browser Extension.
• Encourage students to request locally unavailable items via interlibrary loan, instead of relying on reviews, abstracts or summaries.

• Request a library workshop for the tools you permit students to use, such as AI Tools for Literature Reviews. With advance notice, we may be able to tailor one to your needs.
• Share our tutorials on Generative AI and Ethical Student Research or Navigating Legal Research with GenAI.
• Refer students to LTI's Academic Skills Centre for help with writing, and self-editing assignments.
• Share one of our downloadable presentations. With advance notice, we may be able to tailor this to your course or discipline.
  • Using GenAI Ethically
  • Evaluating GenAI Content

• Expectations for documenting the use of AI tools vary between disciplines. Librarians can provide standards and examples relevant to your discipline.
• Review and share our citation and disclosure guidelines, and sample statements for disclosing AI use. Librarians can advise students on crafting AI citations and disclosure statements.

Students may ask to use a tool that's new to you. Ask your librarian for help finding reviews or assessing the tool for the proposed task.

• Have students evaluate the tool using the ROBOT test. This is one way to assess the trustworthiness of the tool, and whether it is appropriate for the task.
• Check our list of GenAI tools for Scholarly Research.

Start with a conversation with your subject liaison librarian. We’re happy to discuss AI-literate research assignments with you and connect you to more resources.