About Refero

Obout Refero
Copyright © 2009 The libraries of Blekinge Institute of Technology and Linnaeus University. The contents of this tutorial may be reproduced and distributed only subject to terms and conditions set forth in the Creative Commons License.

Refero is a web based tutorial developed to help students in higher education understand what plagiarism is and give advice on how to avoid it. The name Refero is latin and means “I refer”. Refero is based on a tutorial which was originally developed at San José State University Library.

The texts were translated and adapted to suit the requirements of our universities.

You are welcome to contact us and tell us what you think of the guide:
studieverkstaden.vaxjo@lnu.se
jenny.gunnarsson@bth.se

Refero is published under a Creative Commons License which means that individuals and institutions may copy and revise Refero’s texts, graphics, animations and scripts to use on their own campus. Refero is distributed free of charge to all parties interested under the condition that you include a reference to the original work, and make any future works which are based on Refero available under a similar license, and also ask permission before selling any product which is based on Refero.

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