Plagiarism in any form always has a negative impact on the educational process. Not only does it affect the person who commits the act, but it also affects the one who discovers it. This library guide offers selected electronic resources on the aspects of plagiarism that concern higher education.
Definitions of plagiarismThe Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2d ed., s.v. "Plagiarism." "The unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."
IPFW Student Handbook Planner, (2003-2004), s.v. "Plagiarism." "The adoption or reproduction of ideas or statements of another person as one's own without acknowledgment."
Online articles on plagiarismThe citations below link directly into EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier database, providing the full text of the article.
Auer, Nicole. J., and Krupar, Ellen. M. "Mouse Click Plagiarism: The Role of Technology in Plagiarism and the Librarian's Role in Combating It," Library Trends 49 (Winter 2001) : 415-32.
Foster, Andrea. L. "Plagiarism-Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary," The Chronicle of Higher Education 48 (May 17, 2002) : A37 [2 pages].
Gardiner, Steve. "Cybercheating: A New Twist on an Old Problem," Phi Delta Kappan 83 (October 2001) : 172-74.
Howard, Rebecca M. "Don't Police Plagiarism: Just TEACH!," Education Digest 67 (January 2001) : 46-49.
Young, Jeffrey R. "The Cat-and-Mouse Game of Plagiarism Detection," The Chronicle of Higher Education 47 ( July 6, 2001) : A26 [2 pages].
Help with preventing plagiarismThese Web sites offer some very useful suggestions and techniques that can help in the prevention of plagiarism.
Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue University Online Writing Lab) Provides information on plagiarism prevention geared toward students including an "Exercises for Practice" section.
The Center for Academic Integrity (Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University) A resource for information on academic integrity. Also offers membership information.
Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It (Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University Bloomington) A concise page of plagiarism prevention information for students.
Strategies for Preventing Plagiarism (The Center for Writing, University of Minnesota) Offers ideas and strategies for preventing plagiarism.
Preventing Plagiarism (Dalhousie University) A nice set of plagiarism prevention resources and techniques along with an "Assignment Design" section.
Preventing Plagiarism (University of Alberta Libraries) A list of plagiarism prevention strategies including links to handouts for students.
Food for plagiarism - Paper millsPaper mills are those places, online, that offer term papers for sale. As with many products, paper mills have varying levels of quality and prices. Some sites share papers for free, while others will unabashedly sell or even write a customized paper for whomever is willing to pay the asking price. The following is a very small sampling of paper mills. These Web sites offer term papers free of charge These Web sites offer term papers for sale
Help with suspected plagiarismThese Web sites offer some issues to consider along with tips, tools, and techniques that can help in detecting instances of plagiarism.
Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You (Kimbel Library, Coastal Carolina University) Offers insights as to why paper mills are in existence.
Detecting Plagiarism (Dalhousie University Libraries) Includes tips on how to detect plagiarism and links to related resources.
Detecting Plagiarism (University of Alberta Libraries) A very comprehensive site that offers plagiarism-detecting resources.
Detecting Plagiarism - Resources for CBU Faculty (Plough Library, Christian Brothers University) Presents a series of indicators for help in detecting plagiarism.
Strategies for Detecting Plagiarism (Instruction Commons, Iowa State University Library) Offers a series of questions to consider when investigating possible plagiarism.
Tools for actually detecting plagiarismFor the purposes of this Web page, some of the tools available for helping to detect plagiarized material will be divided into two categories, Free tools and Commercial tools.
Free toolsThese Web Search Engines and periodical databases can be used to search suspected phrases, passages, and resources included in submitted works.
Web Search Engines Dogpile Combines nine of the top search engines into one interface.
Google With over three billion Web documents, Google is arguably the largest search engine out there.
Periodical databases (Available to authorized IPFW users from on or off campus) Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) Offers full-text searching capabilities for nearly 4,000 magazines and journals. Note: Be sure to select the "Also search within the full text of the articles" box on Academic Search Premier’s Refine Search screen.
IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog) IUCAT contains more than 5 million records for library collections held at IU campuses statewide.
JSTOR (scholarly journal collection) A searchable collection of the complete fulltext back files of more than 300 important scholarly journals.
Commercial toolsCommercial plagiarism-detecting tools run the gamut from offering a simple software package to customized online services. The following are some of the more well-know plagiarism-detecting services and products.
Essay Verification Engine (EVE2) A software-based program that compares submitted works with Web sites. After comparisions are made, a report is generated identifying any matching URLs to passages in the suspected works.
Glatt Plagiarism Services Offers software packages to help with both the prevention and detection of plagiarism. The detection software does not compare suspected work with online resources or Web sites.
Articles about GlattMinkel, Walter. "Sniffing Out the Cheaters." School Library Journal 48 (June 2002) : 25.
Orlans, Harold. "Computerized plagiarism detection." Change 27 (November/December 1995) : 10.
MyDropbox.com This is a fee-based service that compares submitted works with WWW sources as well as their own collection of previously submitted works. Returns a report usually within 24 hours.
Turnitin.com This Web-based plagiarism detection tool offers electronic submission of student works for comparison to turnitin.com's own collection of research papers, Internet content, and proprietary databases.
IPFW has a subscription to Turnitin through WebCT. For more information, see the Guide for Using Turnitin - Plagiarism Detection Software to Enhance Teaching and Learning (PDF).
Articles about Turnitin.comFoster, Andrea L. "Plagiarism-Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary." The Chronicle of Higher Education 48 (May 17, 2002) :. A37.
Minkel, Walter. "Sniffing Out the Cheaters." School Library Journal 48 (June 2002) : 25.
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