Plagiarism Recent common forms of plagiarism include the use material cut and pasted from the Internet and the sharing of electronic data between students, classes and institutions. There are services and tools available on the Internet for detecting these forms of plagiarism and listed below are the main sites, with a brief explanation of the services offered.
Users register with an e-mail address and then documents can be uploaded.
Documents submitted for testing are checked against propriety databases held by Plagiarism Org and against major Internet databases. The services offered range from a comparison of manuscripts across classes or universities, to detecting material cut and pasted from the Internet. A report of the findings is returned via the e-mail, with an anticipated turnaround time of up to 24 hours. A Content Analysis, which details the number of sources that matched those of the uploaded document and a Similar Links guide for directing users to the appropriate sites. Documents are returned with matched sentences and phrases underlined.