Course Hero

Course Hero’s mission is to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge through the open exchange of academic course materials.  The information contained within third-party course materials is an invaluable resource, and Course Hero believes that all individuals inherently possess the right to access such information.  However, Course Hero also expects its users to respect the tenets of academic honesty and integrity when using third-party course material on Course Hero.  Student-users of Course Hero must understand and abide by their respective schools’ codes of academic integrity.

Please follow the guidelines below when (i) publishing course material to Course Hero or (ii) using third-party course materials published to Course Hero.

Publishing Course Materials to Course Hero

Only publish materials that you individually created or received express permission to publish on Course Hero.  Please note the following:

o You may publish lecture notes to Course Hero if  (i) you wrote such notes yourself and (i) such notes are your unique individual interpretation, understanding and compilation of the lecture material.

o    You may NOT publish lecture notes to Course Hero if they are taken directly from your professor’s lecture material (e.g. handouts, verbatim transcriptions, PowerPoint slides) without such professor’s express permission.

Using Course Materials Published to Course Hero

Properly cite all third-party material that you incorporate into your own work by giving credit to the student or teacher who created the material.  

You must not only cite quotations of third-party material, but also any ideas taken from third-party material that you then incorporate into your work.

We recommend that your citations conform to the MLA Style [http://www.andyspinks.com/mla/pdf/MLAguide.pdf] or Chicago Style [http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicago.pdf ], as they pertain to online databases or websites.