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 - 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.
MyDropBox.com - Provides technology services to detect and prevent cases of Internet plagiarism.
Plagiarism Checker - Provides a free service to determine the originality of texts based on comparisons with Internet searches.
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.
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).
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