Rules for referencing notes/work from the internet

[silverpig]

Okay, I have this assignment due tomorrow morning and I'm almost finished. I had to explain a certain astrophysical phenomenum by means of a poster for public display. So I found some pictures, referenced them, pulled some info from a few journals, referenced them, and did up my own hash of my explanation + class notes. Now I'm just looking for some extra material to fill up the last little bit of space and I find these 4 powerpoint slides from another university's website. A prof did up some lecture notes on exactly what I'm talking about and they're absolutely perfect for my project. I want to just print them out as is, reference them saying where I got them from, and then stick them on my poster. Any opinions on whether this is alright or not, or should I paraphrase/re-write/spend an hour with the stupid equation editor to get the derivations all pretty? I'd still reference the site either way.

There's no copyright/usage info on the site anywhere that I can find which makes it hard to know. All the other sites/journals told me exactly what I had to reference so that was easy. I just want to be done and this would really save me some time, but I don't want to step on any toes.

 

[silverpig]

C'mon people... I'm almost done here.

 

[Sealy]

I don't see how it's any different from getting stuff from a book. As long as you reference where they came from. If it's on the web...you should be able to use them. 🙂

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Sealy
I don't see how it's any different from getting stuff from a book. As long as you reference where they came from. If it's on the web...you should be able to use them. 🙂

Oh sure, of course YOU'RE gonna say that 😛

That is true though. It doesn't seem any different...

 

[Chaotic42]

So what is your project about?

 

[DXM]

I agree with Sealy, as long as you're not trying to claim the referenced material as your own work you should be ok.

 

[silverpig]

Apparent superluminal motion in the jet material of active galactic nuclei.

 

[silverpig]

solved. I'm using it.

Drowning Turtle: if you're doing a presentation, I'd think you could use other people's sh!t. If you look at any scientific paper, they use other people's sh!t all the time. It's not like you came up with ANY of the information on your poster.
silverpig: true
silverpig: heh, i've had 4 people trying to explain to me that it was alright, but i still wasn't sure... until you pointed out that I really didn't do ANY of this sh!t myself... hahahaha