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).
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.
A Real-Life Instance of Plagiarism Detection by SCAM
An article about detecting plagiarism with detection software. Links to other stories.
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.
Plagiarism Detection
Site to download YAP (Yet Another Plague), a plagiarism detection program. Can also download articles about YAP and plagiarism from ftp sites.
Houston Chronicle Editorial
Editorial on detecting and preventing student plagiarism by Gary Galles, economics professor from Pepperdine University.
Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search
Finds copies of content on the web to help find plagiarism and copyright infringement.
Copy Detection Mechanisms
Article by 2 computer scientists, Narayanan Shivakumar and Hector Garcia-Molina,from Stanford University detailing how plagiarism databases work.
Hyperstamps
Cyber copyright service.
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.
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.org.uk
Business which investigates texts for plagiarism and copying by third parties. Studies academic, industrial and literary texts of all types.
Plagiarism Checker
Provides a free service to determine the originality of texts based on comparisons with Internet searches.
Student Plagiarism in an Online World
Discusses tools for exposing cybercheating. Sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education
Salon News Magazine
An article about the problems that may occur with plagiarism detection software.
Using the Web to fight Plagiarism
Martin Holmes provides tips on using AltaVista to locate resources from which a student may have plagiarized material.
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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