I encourage the same approach to graphics as when quoting and citing
text. Scholars reproduce graphics all the time, with attribution
of course. Some of the old textbooks we use are actually on the web,
so grabbing and recycling images is even easier than using a scanner.
Western civilization wouldn't be as advanced as it is were Europeans
so uptight about ripping off Chinese and Arabic texts as many
legalistically-minded today. Scholarship follows time-honored
conventions of giving credit where credit is due, and that's what
my students learn about. "Cannibalize" is indeed the appropriate
word.
Kirby
>To this end, I encourage scouring used book stores for old
>math texts (cheap) and cannibalizing them for pictures and
>diagrams -- easier to scan pictures of crystal lattices (a hot
>topic in my curriculum) than trying to draw them from scratch.
>
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