[Ads-l] Quote: If you copy from one book, that's plagiarism; if you copy from many books, that's research.

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The leading candidate for authorship of the saying in the subject line
is now Wallace Notestein, Sterling Professor of English History at
Yale University, based on the following 1929 citation.

Date: November 1, 1929
Periodical: California District News Letter
Organization: U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture
Publication Location: San Francisco, California
Volume 10, Number 44
Quote Page 4
Note: Scans from Library System of University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, California

[Begin excerpt]
WHAT IS RESEARCH?
To Prof. Notestein of the Yale faculty is attributed the following
definition for research: "If you copy from one book, that's
plagiarism; if you copy from many books, that's research."
[End excerpt]

This message is a follow-up to a message containing two requests that
I sent to the list a few months ago. The requests have now been
satisfied.

Here is a link to the updated QI article:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/09/20/plagiarism/

Thanks to John McChesney-Young and the University of California,
Berkeley library system. John accessed the 1929 bound volume of
newsletters and precisely located the citation based on partial
information and misinformation from a snippet in the Google Books
database.

Further thanks to Charles Doyle and the University of Georgia library
system. Charlie accessed a volume of “The Cypress Knee” and precisely
located the 1930 citation.

Year: 1930
Periodical: The Cypress Knee, Eighth Annual Edition, 1930
Organization: Georgia State College of Agriculture
Publisher: The Forestry Club of the Georgia State College of
Agriculture, Athens, Georgia
Quote Page 65, Column 1
Note: Scans from Library System of University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

[Begin excerpt]
We heard this definition of research: "If you copy from one book,
that's plagiarism: if you copy from many books, that's research."
[End excerpt]

The updated article also contains an acknowledgement to Nigel Rees who
provided valuable pointers.

Garson

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