Scholarly Publishers Sign On to Plagiarism-Detection Service

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3124&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Plagiarists beware. A group of 12 publishers have begun using CrossCheck, software that ferrets out plagiarized articles submitted for publication in scholarly journals. The software was created by CrossRef, a publishing industry association, and iParadigms, a company that sells Turnitin, software that checks student papers for plagiarized material. CrossCheck is targeted at scholars. It flags [...]

Plagiarism & citing resources

http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2008/06/plagiarism-citing-resources.html
source: Information Literacy weblog
“A couple of interesting sites I came across recently:
Glasgow Metroplolitan College’s library guides in multiple languages and podcasts about plagiarism: http://www.glasgowmet.ac.uk/
aboutus.aspx
Queensland University of Technology’s CITE/WRITE site: http://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/”

First UK report on student plagiarism published

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/news/detail/uk_report_student_plagiarism
The results of the second phase of the Academic Misconduct Benchmarking Research Project (AMBeR) show that while HEIs vary in their application of plagiarism policies, there are clusters of consensus within groups of universities.

CrossRef Announces CrossCheck Plagiarism Detection Service

LYNNFIELD MA, April 15, 2008. – CrossRef announces an agreement=20 with iParadigms, LLC to launch the CrossCheck service to aid in verifying the originality of scholarly content. Following on the success of CrossRef’s recent pilot of CrossCheck, the service is scheduled to go live in June.
CrossRef is partnering with iParadigms, LLC to offer its members [...]

University of Texas researchers develop search engine to curb plagiarism

The Nature journal has reported that two research scientists at the University of Texas in Dallas – Dr. Harold Garner and Dr. Mounir Errami – have developed an online search engine that curbs “questionable publication practices”. By deploying its new eTBLAST programme, the duo has managed to pinpoint 70,000 papers on [...]

New book on plagiarism to be released

New book on plagiarism to be released

The book, ‘International Students: A conceptual framework for dealing with unintentional plagiarism’, is edited by Tim S. Roberts, Central Queensland University, Australia. Published by Information Science Reference. The table of contents and list of contributors can be seen online at http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=7031&v=tableOfContents.

Cloze (a tool to help detect plagiarism)

Cloze
http://www.rushsoftware.com.au/clozeset.htm
Cloze is used for teaching languages but a uni in Germany is using it to help detect plagiarism, as it has a facility that deletes every 5th word in a passage. The students suspected of plagiarism were required to fill in the gaps. The tre autohr can fill in the gaps 80% of the time, [...]