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DATABASE ARTICLES

After speaking with the librarian, I've found great full-text articles about my science topic in the databases I was shown. I want to share a couple of them with my group project mates, a friend at a different school and post the article and some of the pictures on my personal web site. I also want to put some of the information from the articles into our group project paper. What do I need to know to accomplish this?

CUNY databases licenses provide that articles from the databases (or even journal articles) that a library provides can be copied and used only by currently enrolled students at that school. Students from other schools should use their own school's databases. Parts of works, (text, images, or even audio-visual objects), can be used in your schoolwork as long as proper credit is given to the copyright holder as per the copyright Fair Use guidelines and/or the database license. Use the citation style required by your professor and avoid plagiarism!