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• A Real-Life Instance of Plagiarism Detection by SCAM

  http://infolab.stanford.edu/~shiva/SCAM/plag.html
  An article about detecting plagiarism with detection software. Links to other stories.

• Avoiding and Detecting Plagiarism

  http://lib.newpaltz.edu/assistance/plagiarism.html
  Tips for teachers and students on how to avoid and detect plagiarism. Emphasis on cut and paste plagiarism from the Internet.

• Copy Detection Mechanisms

  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november95/scam/11shivakumar.html
  Article by 2 computer scientists, Narayanan Shivakumar and Hector Garcia-Molina,from Stanford University detailing how plagiarism databases work.

• Copyscape

  http://copyscape.com/
  Finds copies of content on the web to help find plagiarism and copyright infringement.

• Google Book Search is a plagiarist's nightmare - Slate Magazine

  http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/
  "Will Google Book Search uncover long-buried literary crimes?" Suggests that text searches focusing on books will reveal plagiarism old and new in the literary world.

• NPR : All Things Considered : Plagiarism

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1122695
  Realaudio-format radio report. Robert Siegel speaks with Louis Bloomfield, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia. Suspicious about student cheating, the professor designed a computer program that would identify student plagarism. The program identified 122 students whose work suggested cheating (Segment is 4 minutes in duration).

• Plagiarism Checker

  http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/
  Provides a free service to determine the originality of texts based on comparisons with Internet searches.

• Plagiarism Checker X

  http://plagiarismcheckerx.com/
  Software helps users to find plagiarized content in their documents and URLs. It also includes cross matching and side by side comparison function.

• Salon News Magazine

  http://www.salon.com/1999/06/14/plagiarism/
  An article about the problems that may occur with plagiarism detection software.

• Student Plagiarism in an Online World

  http://www.prism-magazine.org/december/html/student_plagiarism_in_an_onlin.htm
  Discusses tools for exposing cybercheating. Sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education

• Turn It In

  http://www.turnitin.com/
  Provides a service to determine the originality of texts based on comparisons with their internal database and net-wide searches. Five free trials.

• Urkund.com

  http://www.urkund.com/
  A fully automated paid service designed to help a school deal with plagiarism. It requires no software installation; all that is needed is a web browser and an e-mail address.

 

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