• Software  (8)

  • Avoiding and Detecting Plagiarism - Tips for teachers and students on how to avoid and detect plagiarism. Emphasis on cut and paste plagiarism from the Internet.
  • Copy Detection Mechanisms - Article by 2 computer scientists, Narayanan Shivakumar and Hector Garcia-Molina,from Stanford University detailing how plagiarism databases work.
  • Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Finds copies of content on the web to help find plagiarism and copyright infringement.
  • Houston Chronicle Editorial - Editorial on detecting and preventing student plagiarism by Gary Galles, economics professor from Pepperdine University.
  • Hyperstamps - Cyber copyright service.
  • Internet Plagiarism: Strategies to Deter Academic Misconduct - Article about plagiarism. Some good links.
  • MyDropBox.com - Provides technology services to detect and prevent cases of Internet plagiarism.
  • Plagiarism Detection - Site to download YAP (Yet Another Plague), a plagiarism detection program. Can also download articles about YAP and plagiarism from ftp sites.
  • Plagiarism.org.uk - Business which investigates texts for plagiarism and copying by third parties. Studies academic, industrial and literary texts of all types.
  • A Real-Life Instance of Plagiarism Detection by SCAM - An article about detecting plagiarism with detection software. Links to other stories.
  • Salon News Magazine - An article about the problems that may occur with plagiarism detection software.
  • South Shore Educational Collaborative: Plagiarism - Information and links for teachers wanting to check for plagiarism. Note: links are to sites that offer papers for free or for sale.
  • Student Plagiarism in an Online World - Discusses tools for exposing cybercheating. Sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education
  • Turn It In - 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 - 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.
  • Using the Web to fight Plagiarism - Martin Holmes provides tips on using AltaVista to locate resources from which a student may have plagiarized material.

  • NPR : All Things Considered : Plagiarism - 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). (May 9, 2001)