Five percent indicated that they had turned in a paper from an online term paper mill. Don McCabe, founder of the Duke-based Center for Academic Integrity and author of the report, said these percentages have likely increased and will continue to do so. This might suggest that the real problem at the college level is yet to come. Just as the Internet might be an easy way for students to cheat, it has also become an easy resource for professors to catch them. Wallace said she sometimes uses basic search engines like Yahoo and Google to identify plagiarism.
Some faculty members have their own computer programs.
Still, the University is considering having a central resource on campus where professors can take papers they suspect of containing plagiarized work.