PRODUCT OVERVIEW 1 © 2012 iParadigms LLC. Company confidential

© 2012 iParadigms LLC. Company confidential.

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PRODUCT OVERVIEW


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OUR COMPANY

Company• The global leader in plagiarism prevention• Headquarters: Oakland, CA and Newcastle, UK• 150 Employees• Majority-owned by Warburg Pincus

Products & Customers• Pure SaaS technology• Turnitin for Educators• WriteCheck for Students• iThenticate for Researchers and Publishers• Most widely used educational applications in the

world

Stats & Facts• Processes over 2 million professional documents

per year• Largest comparison database of scholarly content• Used by leading publishers, research

departments and government organizations


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CURRENT CLIMATE

• Growing scrutiny of published work• Rising number of misconduct allegations

& investigations

• Increased number of retractions• Media attention • Grant fraud

Rise of the Retractions

Van Noorden. “Science publishing: The trouble with retractions” October 5, 2011. Nature. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/full/478026a.html

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/full/478026a.html




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ITHENTICATE OVERVIEW

Summary• Prevents plagiarism• Assists in editing processes• Protects reputations and copyrights

Highlights• Easy to use• Quick results• Share and collaborate• Document to document comparison


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REPORTS

Four Ways to View Results

Similarity Report – Shows the most relevant matches. Content Tracking Report – Shows all relevant matches.

Largest Matches Report – shows the largest portion of matching strings of text.

Summary Report – Provides an overview of matched content and sources.


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SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY

A growing need for plagiarism prevention within the interconnecting scholarly publishing and research communities.

Government Bodies& Granting Agencies are using iThenticate.

Scholarly Publishers are using iThenticate.

Universities &Individual Researchers

should use iThenticate as part of their editorial review before submitting to granting and publishing bodies to mitigate the potential risks of misconduct.


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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES & GRANTING BODIES USING ITHENTICATE

CrossCheck members since 2009. Uses iThenticate to check internal research.

Uses iThenticate to investigate specific misconduct cases.

Customers since 2009. Uses iThenticate to check internal research.

Customers since 2007. Uses iThenticate to check grant proposals.

Customers since 2011. Uses iThenticate to check internal research.

Customers since 2009. Uses iThenticate to check internal research and other press publications.

Customers since 2011. Uses iThenticate to check grant proposals.

Uses iThenticate to investigate misconduct cases as referred by NIH.


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UNIVERSITIES USING ITHENTICATE

Users since 2009. After a plagiarism scandal, they signed up for iThenticate to protect them from future scandals and loss of funding.

Users since 2010. They encourage use of iThenticate to screen grant proposals and scholarly papers for plagiarism or misuse of text.

Users since 2010. Requires 40 students per year to publish in order to graduate. To ensure that none of those manuscripts contain plagiarism, they use iThenticate.

Users since 2008. They use iThenticate to check both graduate level course work and faculty research.

Both universities have been users since 2010. Both faculty and graduate students use iThenticate.

Users since 2009. Signed on to use iThenticate to investigate misconduct allegations.


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TECHNOLOGY

For a single document, check ~100 fragments against:

• Proprietary web crawler• 116+ million content items• Customized, private databases

Signal vs. Noise

• In parallel, check for fuzzy matches, synonyms, word substitutions, paraphrasing and translated plagiarism

• Deliver close to zero false-positives


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PROCESS

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Database of ‘fingerprints’

PublicationsCustom Repository

Digital Fingerprint

Research Articles Internet

Similarity Report


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CONTENT

Scholarly Publishers

• 32+ million scholarly articles, books and

conference proceedings from 70,000+

scientific, technical and medical publications

(as a result of CrossCheck in partnership with

CrossRef)

Content Partners• 90+ million online and offline subscription

content and research titles from leading

aggregators, databases and content

providers

Internet• 24+ billion archived and current web pages


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CROSSCHECK, POWERED BY ITHENTICATE

About CrossCheck• Initiative between iThenticate and CrossRef, a not-for-profit

membership association of publishers

• Established to prevent scholarly plagiarism and other forms of

misconduct

• ~300 members: leading STM publishers worldwide

Scholarly Content• Growing database of current and archived scholarly literature:

• 67,000+ titles

• 30M+ articles, chapters, proceedings, etc.

• 67M+ books, journals, conference proceedings, etc.


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CROSSCHECK TECHNOLOGY


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PROQUEST

About ProQuest & Our Partnership

• Clearinghouse for all theses and dissertations

• A partnership with ProQuest enables users to check work

against

the largest repository of published theses and dissertations.

Content

• 300,000 dissertations in the iThenticate database

• Every dissertation and thesis published since 2008

• Adding 70,000 per year


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CUSTOM DATABASE

Additional feature for iThenticate customers with specific research needs.

Create a Private Database

• Private repository for internal documents, specific research or other unpublished work

• Available to customers with organizational annual licenses

• Document-to-document comparison


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COMPARISON TO TURNITIN


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EDITION COMPARISON


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DEMO

ithenticate.com/demo

http://www.ithenticate.com/demo


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ACADEMIC PRICING

Pricing for Research Departments and Organizations• Document-to-Document comparison

• API integration

• Collaboration and sharing

$3,000 per year for

department use

$5,000 per year for

institution-wide use

Pricing for Individuals (Single Manuscripts)• Up to 25,000 words

• 5 revisions

$50 per manuscript


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