In the 1990s in the UK, the problem of student plagiarism was addressed by telling students they must not do it, then by dealing with the small number who did not comply. Policies and institutional procedures drafted before 2000, designed to cope with this relatively straightforward situation, often did not define what was meant by plagiarism (Stefani and Carroll, 2001) or state how offenders w...

Connie Strittmatter is Head Librarian, Access Services & Collection Maintenance in Boston College University Libraries, e-mail: [email protected]; Virginia K. Bratton is Assistant Professor in the College of Business at Montana State University, e-mail: [email protected]. ©2014 Connie Strittmatter and Virginia K. Bratton, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses...

Unauthorized re-use of code by students is a widespread problem in academic institutions, and raises liability issues for industry. Manual plagiarism detection is time-consuming, and current effective plagiarism detection approaches cannot be easily scaled to very large code repositories. While there are practical text-based plagiarism detection systems capable of working with large collections...

Traditionally, a distinction has been drawn between software and services to detect text-based plagiarism or collusion, and products to detect such practices in computer programs. The Joint Information Services Committee (JISC) even commissioned two separate studies, the Technical Review of Plagiarism Detection Report (Bull et al, 2001) which focused on text-based assignments, and Source Code P...

As the Internet help us cross cultural border by providing different information, plagiarism issue is bound to arise. As a result, plagiarism detection becomes more demanding in overcoming this issue. Different plagiarism detection tools have been developed based on various detection techniques. Nowadays, fingerprint matching technique plays an important role in those detection tools. However, ...

In this research we looked for such metrics by an experimental approach that was carried out in three phases. In the first phase we learned the possible ways to plagiarize, which was done by interviewing students. Categorizing the known methods lead us to the most popular plagiarism approach that was applied by the students. Therefore an experiment was designed to simulate the real plagiarism s...

Today, Plagiarism has become a menace. Every journal editor or conference organizers has to deal with this problem. Simply Copying or rephrasing of text without giving due credit to the original author has become more common. This is considered to be an Intellectual Property Theft. We are developing a Plagiarism Detection Tool which would deal with this problem. In this paper we discuss the com...

Few months ago, Dr Poorolajal et al. published a comprehensive article in Iranian J Publ Health entitled “Construction of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Questionnaire for Assessing Plagiarism”. They had established a questionnaire as a standard tool in order to evaluate perception of subjects concerning plagiarism and to estimate the prevalence and the type of plagiarism commission (1). Altho...

This paper overviews 17 plagiarism detectors that have been evaluated within the sixth international competition on plagiarism detection at PAN 2014. We report on their performances for the two tasks source retrieval and text alignment of external plagiarism detection. For the third year in a row, we invite software submissions instead of run submissions for this task, which allows for cross-ye...