Software
CopyCatch, EVE: The Essay Verification Engine, Glatt Plagiarism Program, iParadigms Inc., JPlag, MOSS, Plagiarism.org, WCopyfind
A Real-Life Instance of Plagiarism Detection by SC
An article about detecting plagiarism with detection software. Links to other stories.
Avoiding and Detecting Plagiarism
Tips for teachers and students on how to avoid and detect plagiarism. Emphasis on cut and paste plagiarism from the Internet.
Copy Detection Mechanisms
Article by 2 computer scientists, Narayanan Shivakumar and Hector Garcia-Molina,from Stanford University detailing how plagiarism databases work.
Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search
Finds copies of content on the web to help find plagiarism and copyright infringement.
Houston Chronicle Editorial
Editorial on detecting and preventing student plagiarism by Gary Galles, economics professor from Pepperdine University.
Internet Plagiarism: Strategies to Deter Academic
Article about plagiarism. Some good links.
Kanuski: Plagiarism
Reference from a teacher on detecting plagiarism with links.
MyDropBox.com
Provides technology services to detect and prevent cases of Internet plagiarism.
NPR : All Things Considered : Plagiarism
Realaudio-format radio report. Robert Siegel speaks with Louis Bloomfield, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia. Suspicious about student cheating, the professor designed a computer program that would identify student plagarism. The program identified 122 students whose work suggested cheating (Segment is 4 minutes in duration).
Plagiarism Detection
Site to download YAP (Yet Another Plague), a plagiarism detection program. Can also download articles about YAP and plagiarism from ftp sites.
Plagiarism.org.uk
Business which investigates texts for plagiarism and copying by third parties. Studies academic, industrial and literary texts of all types.
Salon News Magazine
An article about the problems that may occur with plagiarism detection software.
South Shore Educational Collaborative: Plagiarism
Information and links for teachers wanting to check for plagiarism. Note: links are to sites that offer papers for free or for sale.
Student Plagiarism in an Online World
Discusses tools for exposing cybercheating. Sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education
Text Authorship Analysis and Plagiarism Detection
This is a link site dedicated to detecting plagiarism in works about and by Shakespeare.
Turn It In
Provides a service to determine the originality of texts based on comparisons with their internal database and net-wide searches. Five free trials.
Urkund.com
A fully automated paid service designed to help a school deal with plagiarism. It requires no software installation; all that is needed is a web browser and an e-mail address.
Using the Web to fight Plagiarism
Martin Holmes provides tips on using AltaVista to locate resources from which a student may have plagiarized material.