Recently I was surfing the Web, and on a computer science professor's curricular website at York University, I found what appears to be a student project on the Memex: "Is Memex a Digital Media?" I was annoyed to find that two of the three concluding bulleted points were lifted from an article I recently published.
I am credited in the "References" section, but there are no quotation marks and there is no in-text citation. I e-mailed the professor and got no response. Then I e-mailed both the professor and the department chair, and still got no response. It's been almost two weeks.
Even worse, my conclusion is taken out of context and used to support an answer that I think is wrong.



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Dennis G. Jerz
Jerz's Literacy Weblog
Plagiarism
If you contact me via email, I will try and contact them for you. I did my MA at York University (not computer science but sociology - but I know some folks over there). This is quite frustrating to say the least. tkennedy at netwomen dot ca
Update: Situation Resolved.
About three weeks after my first attempt to contact the professor, I contacted the York University president late last night, and by mid-morning today the professor had removed the offending student report and apologized for giving me the impression that he was ignoring me. I'm satisfied.
Dennis G. Jerz
Jerz's Literacy Weblog