The free version of this content checker works by seeking out duplicate pages, so it won't help you much before publishing, but it can help if you need a quick take on what you have already published. Premium versions include copy searches and duplicate alerts.
A wiki about the following four topics for educators concerning information literacy on the Internet: copyright Basics, plagiarism ID & prevention, validity of a Website and resources for research.
Plagiarism, we all hate it, but how can we teach students to avoid it and how can we detect it? Just as the Internet makes plagiarism easy, the Internet also makes detecting plagiarism and prevent plagiarism easy. What follows are ten resources for detecting plagiarism and teaching students to avoid plagiarism.
Designed to help educators and students develop a better sense of what plagiarism means in the information age, and to teach the planning, organizational, and citation skills essential for producing quality writing and research.
Track plagiarism by pasting your original text into this sites search box
The site shows students what plagiarism is and how to avoid accidentally plagiarizing someone's work.
This tool gives you the option of checking against Yahoo as well as Google
NYT article on "unwitting" student plagiarism from online sources Many students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious academic misdeed.
Thos tool offers a free service for checking small documents and a free service for checking documents against each other. Doc Cop also offers a fee based service that will check large documents and do a more comprehensive check than that offered for free.
A quick and easy-to-follow video introduction of the basics of plagiarism and how to avoid it.
Plagtracker is an online service which will scan a block of text (eg. an essay or paper) and compare it to internet pages and a database of academic papers. It is also free.
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Numerous videos that could help copyright and plagiarism to students.
This content checker is our top pick for language support and versatility. Sign up for free with your Facebook account and you can paste in text, check a url or upload files in 190 languages. Aside from checking the web, Plagiarisma can also delve into Google Scholar for articles, patents, legal opinions and journals as well as Google Books.
The website allows you to check copy by either pasting it or uploading a .txt file, then compares it sentence by sentence with Google, Yahoo or MSN search. It works quickly and correctly spotted our duplicate partner article--as well as several unauthorized reprints--but lower on the results page were many articles matching any of the words, not the specific phrases. Since it breaks down the article into sentences for you, it's much faster than using a search engine on your own. Available in English only.