(Their databases are more comprehensive than those used by Turnitin.) Like Turnitin, iThenticate generates a colour-coded similarity report showing any matched text and where the original can be found. You can find more on Turnitin here: ĭocuments or segments of writing are easily submitted to the iThenticate system, and these are then compared with millions of other documents in both the various iThenticate databases and also the Internet more generally. For coursework programs, the University provides Turnitin, which is more suited to the sort of assessments being used.
#Ithenticate login license
Our license prohibits us from making it more widely available. Please note that access to the UniSA iThenticate account is limited to students on research degree rather than coursework programs.
To use iThenticate you just need to be registered, and an account can be established by emailing a request to your UniSA email account. The system can be used both to check your own writing to prevent inadvertent plagiarism, and can also be used to help develop the quality of your research degree students’ writing and their own writing ‘voice’. It is also used by most of the major journals to screen submissions before they are sent out for review. It has been designed especially for academic researchers and research students.
IThenticate is an online tool from the same company that provides Turnitin, which is used by UniSA to check written coursework for plagiarism. iThenticate (an online tool to help avoid plagiarism and to educate yourself and your research students about responsible research writing) Whether avoiding text recycling or republication, the principle is to ensure transparency in dealings with publishers and readers, and to limit redundancy and confusion on the research publication record. In other words, give proper attribution to where it was first published.Ī related issue concerns redundant publications, that is, republication of work that you have already published elsewhere. And second, make it absolutely clear that what you are saying is not new. If you do wish to re-use your own text, first ensure that you are not breaching any copyright you may have signed over to a journal publisher. Perhaps a better term may be text-recycling. Self-plagiarism seems to be an oxy-moron – after all, how can one steal from oneself? So strategies, such as careful note taking, or never doing a simple cut and paste from other work, should be used to protect yourself.
It is important to recognise that plagiarism is relatively easy to detect, particularly in the current era.Īnd whilst it is possible to mistakenly plagiarise, that is generally not considered a defence. Plagiarism is clearly unacceptable, and in the more egregious cases, can lead not only to allegations of research misconduct, but also have serious consequences for a career in research. to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.to use (another's production) without crediting the source.to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own.The Miriam –Webster online dictionary goes into greater detail: “The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own” The Oxford dictionary defines plagiarism as follows: