CrossRef Workshops 2013

2006: CrossRef board raises plagiarism as

area of concern

Late 2007/ early 2008: pilot with seven

publishers and technology partner iParadigms

June 2008: CrossCheck launched

November 2013: >500 CrossCheck

publishers

What is it?•Not plagiarism detection!

•iThenticate text comparison software

from iParadigms

•Software that analyses and compares

text

•Database of content to check against

Getting Started• Signed license agreement with iParadigms

• Set-up content to be indexed and included in

the CrossCheck database

• iThenticate software crawls publisher

website

• Other iParadigms users can detect if

someone is plagiarizing ‘your’ content, even

if you haven’t started checking documents

How Does it Work?• Upload document

• A similarity report is produced – percent

of document that matches other

content in the database.

• Reports where the similar content

comes from and can show the

matching content side by side and in

context.

• Make a judgment on whether there has

been a case of plagiarism

Yes

No

Cost

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