University Library: PLAGIARISM: PREVENTING/FOR EDUCATORS

Online Plagiarism Detection Services

Copyscape.com
Allows web authors to enter urls for their pages and the software checks to see if the content has been used by others.
Turnitin.com
Subscription software that institutions or individuals can use to check papers against a database of term papers. UW-Stout teaching faculty and staff can activate this in their Learn@UW-Stout drop boxes.
Grammarly
Free online tool
Plagiarism-Finder
A commercial program from MediaPhor that searches the web for matches to content in papers on the user's computer.

Use University Library resources to search phrases from the text of papers when plagiarism is suspected.

Dogpile
Search multiple search engines simultaneously.
Google
Check for web plagiarism by using an "exact phrase" search in the Advanced Search feature. Be sure to request full text results for documents.
Plagiarism Checker

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
Article by Robert Harris, in online journal Virtual Salt.
Discouraging Plagiarism
Indiana University Campus Writing Program, Faculty Services.
The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age
Article by Jamie McKenzie in online journal From Now On, The Educational Technology Journal.