Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You. This is an abbreviated version of
the Teaching Effectiveness Seminar, presented by Margaret Fain and Peggy Bates
of the Kimbel Library at the Coastal Carolina University, held March 5, 1999,
and revised on March 10, 2003. This seminar’s objective was to help faculty deal
with classroom plagiarism. Other topics included Internet subject specific paper
mills, detecting plagiarism, and plagiarized papers. Access:
http://www.coastal.edu/library/papermil.htm.
Cyberplagiarism Detection and Prevention. This resource is on
the Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology site. It defines plagiarism
and lists articles from local and national papers. It also presents
possible causes, detection strategies and tools, and signs of possible
plagiarism; it also discusses Penn State’s policies on academic integrity and
plagiarism and allows professors to create plagiarism quizzes to test students’
knowledge of plagiarism. Access:
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/cyberplag/.
MyDropBox.com is an Internet plagiarism service founded in August
2000 that provides access to about 250,000 papers online. EduTie uses PlagiServ
technology to analyze loaded papers. This is a
fee-based service that provides free trials. Access:
http://www.mydropbox.com/.
Essay Verification Engine (Eve2) is an Internet plagiarism
detection resource. Eve 2 is moderately priced and appears to be
cost-effective. It is said to be 80 to 90 percent effective in finding
plagiarized materials. This is a one-time, fee-based
service with free updates. Teachers can try it free for 15 days.
Access:
http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml.
Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc. provides three different
software programs to: teach students about plagiarism, screen programs to
detect plagiarism for faculty, and a self-detection program to detect
plagiarism. This is a fee-based service.
Access: http://www.plagiarism.com.
JPlag was developed by Guido Malpohl to detect academic
dishonesty. The software not only compares the text of documents, but examines
program language syntax and program structure to detect stolen software parts.
It is free for use by instructors, but they
are required to set up an account. Access:
http://www.jplag.de/.
MOSS (Measure of Software Similarity) software determine
similarities among computer programs such as Java, C, C++, Paschal, Ada, Lisp,
or Scheme programs. Moss was invented in 1994, and is used to detect plagiarism
in computer programming classes. Moss is free for
instructors and staff of programming language courses. Access: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html.
Plagiarism.org was designed for educators and created by
students and alumni at the University of California-Berkeley. Papers submitted
to plagiarism.org are checked using turnitin.com, dubbed the “world’s leading
plagiarism prevention system.” Access:
http://www.plagiarism.org.
PlagiServ. This free
service claims to be the largest, comprehensive local database of approximately
70,000 papers. PlagiServ allows educators to load students’ papers in their
database and it checks phrase by phrase. The site also has a discussion board.
Access: http://www.plagiserve.com/.
Turnitin.com. Affiliated with plagiarism.org, turnitin.com
considers itself to be “the world’s most widely recognized and trusted resource
for helping prevent Internet plagiarism.” Turnitin.com boasts of “deterring
plagiarism for nearly 5 million educators and students worldwide.” It is a
fee-based service, but provides free trials.
Access: http://www.turnitin.com.
WordChecksystems. This keyword document checking software
profiles student documents. It identifies keywords. WordCheck comes in “Profiler
Pro” and “Profiler Basic” formats. An institution can also get a site license
for the software. It is a fee-based
resource. Access:
http://www.wordchecksystems.com.
Search Engines
Google. Google’s advanced search tool is capable of acting as a
plagiarism detection tool. It can locate keywords that appear in a research
paper. Google also directs the user to other plagiarism detection services and
resources with the Google Advanced Directory. Access:
http://www.google.com.
Metacrawler. Metacrawler is a meta-search engine, searching
other search engines for phrases and keywords. Access:
http://www.metacrawler.com.
Yahoo. Yahoo places information into categories and
subcategories. The search engine searches these categories as well as other Web
sites for words or phrases. Access:
http://www.yahoo.com.