CrossRef Workshops 2013
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
November 2013: >500 CrossCheck
publishers
What is it?•Not plagiarism detection!
•iThenticate text comparison software
from iParadigms
•Software that analyses and compares
text
•Database of content to check against
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
How Does it Work?• Upload document
• A similarity report is produced – percent
of document that matches other
content in the database.
• Reports where the similar content
comes from and can show the
matching content side by side and in
context.
• Make a judgment on whether there has
been a case of plagiarism
Yes
No
Cost