Tools for Identifying Potential Misconduct: the CrossCheck Service

from CrossRef Rachael Lammey Product Manager CrossRefrlammey@crossref.org 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition

•  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 ✓

•  Database of content to check text against

•  iThenticate software that analyses and compares text"

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Plagiarism Detection

Additional Features

•  Exclude quotes

•  Exclude bibliography

•  Exclude small sources/matches

•  Section exclusion

•  Exclude set phrases

•  What else would people like to see?

•  555 publishers •  Over 38.9 million content items

indexed •  101,000+ titles

•  100,000+ manuscripts being uploaded every month

•  Title and member list on the CrossRef website"

Documents Uploaded to iThenticate by CrossCheck Member Publishers

www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html crosscheck_info@crossref.org @CrossRefNews