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2006: CrossRef board raises plagiarism as
area of concern
Late 2007/ early 2008: pilot with seven
publishers and technology partner iParadigms
June 2008: CrossCheck launched
What is it?•Not plagiarism detection!
•iThenticate text comparison software
from iParadigms
•Software that analyses and compares
text
•Database of content to check against
http://www.answers.com/plagiaris
m
plagiarism [play‐jă‐rizm], the theft of
ideas... or of written passages or works,
where these are passed off as one's own
work without acknowledgement of their true
origin...
Plagiarism is not always easily separable
from imitation, adaptation, or pastiche, but is
usually distinguished by its dishonest
intention.
Legitimate Duplication
Getting Started• Signed license agreement with iParadigms
• Set-up content to be indexed and included in
the CrossCheck database
• iThenticate software crawls publisher
website
• Other iParadigms users can detect if
someone is plagiarizing ‘your’ content, even
if you haven’t started checking documents
610 publishers
Over 41 million content items indexed
118,000+ titles
170,000+ manuscripts checked each
month
Documents uploaded to iThenticate by all CrossCheck Publishers
Triage Acceptance
Yes
No
Manuscript
Submission
On Submission? Triage?
Prior to acceptance?
Why join?Increase trust in your content by validating its
originality
Deter would-be plagiarists from submitting to your
publications
Deter would-be plagiarists from plagiarizing your
publications
Protect your reputation
Promote the value of the publishing process
Why CrossCheck?
Only service with a database of relevant scholarly
publications to check against
Discounted pricing as compared to using iThenticate
directly
CrossCheck community and CrossRef support
Cost
Two part fee:
CrossRef: Annual administrative fee - 20% of
CrossRef annual membership fee
iParadigms: Per-document checking fee
($0.75 - $0.25)
http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck_fees.html
For more
information…
• http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck/index.html
• Attend a CrossCheck webinar
Dealing with Plagiarism
Office of Research Integrity
http://ori.dhhs.gov/misconduct/index.shtml
Committee on Publication Ethics
http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowchar
ts
Council of Science Editors
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/editorial
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