Examples of Commercial Term Paper Companies
- Examples of companies with a Web presence, but no descriptions of actual papers:
- The Paper Store
- Term Papers, School & Business Help Line
- LazyStudents.com
Offers "custom research." Requires registration.
- Examples of companies that provide searchable catalogs of papers available:
- Academic Research Papers
- An affiliate of The Paper Store offers "Women's Issues" papers
Click on "paper menu." - MegaEssays.com lets users see the first few sentences at no charge; monthly charge to view rest and search database.
- Research Papers Online
For additional sites, see Internet Paper Mills List compiled by Peggy Bates and Margaret Fain, librarians at Coastal Carolina University.
Free Papers
- AllFreeEssays.com
(formerly Absolutely Free Online Essays/Student Online Network) - School Sucks
Requires that one join and submit a paper in order to view the free papers. Other links headed "Enter Your Paper Topic Here" or "What Topic is Your Term Paper On?" lead to fee-based papers. - Asian Grade has thousands of free papers. Users can purchase removal of a paper for various amounts of fees and time (1 month to permanent).
- TermPaperGenie has free "pre-written" papers and sells "custom written" ones.
Examples of Student Papers Mounted Through Course Web Pages, Departments, Clearinghouses and Other Sites
- National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Missouri Western State College. - Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier (MIT)
("archive of exemplary papers" by students in this course over several years) - Steuber Prize
(winning undergrad. writing papers in College of Engineering, UW-Madison) - Various Individual Courses
- Barbie: the Image of Us All (University of Virginia)
- Classics: Women in Antiquity (Tufts University)
Full Text Databases and Electronic Versions of Journals to which Campus Libraries Subscribe
Material plagiarized from such sources will NOT turn up through web search engine searches or plagiarism detection software. The hyperlinks in the following examples will work for University of Wisconsin-Madison authorized users. If you are accessing this page from another campus, check your campus library's homepage to see which fulltext databases and individual journals are available on your campus.- Multi-disciplinary databases of core academic journals (examples)
- News Sources (examples)
- Collections in various disciplines (examples)
- Business: ABI/Inform
- Humanities: Humanities Full Text
- Education: Education Full Text
- Social Sciences: Social Sciences Full Text
- Women's Studies: GenderWatch
- Individual journals
On the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, use the Electronic Journals listings (alphabetical list also available by broad subject category). - Use the Web of Knowledge/Web of Science (1982- ), which tracks citings and cited references. Search for authors footnoted in the suspect paper or by subject. This database includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.