Professional Plagiarism Prevention

iThenticate Guide

UNIST LIBRARY

English version

Table of Contents

iThenticate? ........................................................................................................................................................ 1

1. iThenticate? – Article Similarity Checking Program ............................................................................................................... 1

2. iThenticate Database Content .......................................................................................................................................................... 1

How to Get an iThenticate Account .............................................................................................................. 2

1. Request an iThenticate Account ..................................................................................................................................................... 2

2. Notification of iThenticate Account and Temporary Password ........................................................................................ 2

3. Log in and Reset Your Password .................................................................................................................................................... 3

iTheicate Overview ............................................................................................................................................ 4

1. Access the iThenticate ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4

2. iThenticate Interface ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4

How to use iThenticate .................................................................................................................................... 5

1. Submit a Document ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5

2. View Similarity Reports ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6

3. Excluding Specific Sources and Small Matches ....................................................................................................................... 8

Create Folders and Set Folder Options ...................................................................................................... 10

1. Create a Folder .................................................................................................................................................................................... 10

2. Folder Options for Checking Similarity .................................................................................................................................... 10

3. Share a Folder ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 12

iThenticate Training Sources (http://www.ithenticate.com/training)

[Training Videos]

Getting Started

Creating and Organizing Folders

Setting your Preferences

Text-Only Similarity Reports

Sharing Results

[Manuals]

iThenticate Plagiarism Software User Manual

iThenticate Document Viewer Similarity Report Guide

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iThenticate?

1. iThenticate? – Article Similarity Checking Program iThenticate is a tool to compare authored work against the content in the database and highlight

matching or similar text for further editorial review.

iThenticate is a part of CrossCheck which is an initiative started by CrossRef to help its members actively

engage in efforts to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.

About 530 societies and publishers are using this program to detect plagiarism in editing process.

CrossCheck: http://crossref.org/crosscheck/

CrossCheck members: http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck_members.html

2. iThenticate Database Content

<STM Publishers> <Content Partners> <Internet>

42 Million 93 Million 52 Billion Journal articles, conference

proceedings and books via

CrossCheck powered by

iThenticate from 590+ leading

scientific, technical and medical

(STM) publishers, including:

American Chemical Society

American Institute of Physics

American Physical Society

Elsevier

IEEE

Institute of Physics

Lippincott Williams &

Wilkins

Nature Publishing

Ovid

Oxford University Press

Sage Publications

Springer

Taylor & Francis

Wiley Blackwell

Online and offline subscription

content and research titles from

30 leading aggregators,

databases and content providers,

including:

ABC CLIO

Cengage Learning

EBSCOHost

Emerald Journals

Gale: 86m articles

Pearson, McGraw-Hill and

Wiley: 2,000+ academic

textbooks

ProQuest: 300,000+ theses

and dissertations

PubMed/MedLine: 1.4m

abstracts and citations;

medical resources

SAGE Reference: 160+

encyclopedia titles

iThenticate's proprietary Internet

crawler is comparable to major

search engines. Archived back

nearly a decade, iThenticate

currently crawls 10 million web

pages per day.

More information: http://www.ithenticate.com/content

Search Scholarly Journals in iThenticate: iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) > Content > Search Journals

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How to Get an iThenticate Account

1. Request an iThenticate Account Only UNIST professors can use iThenticate

because this program has limitation of number

of checking documents.

* Limitation: 1,000 document per 1 year,

* Undergraduate and graduate students can

use ‘turn it in’.

UNIST professors need to submit the

application form to get an iThenticate account.

Application for iThenticate Account (Online)

: Application for iThenticate Account

(https://goo.gl/f6txfj)

2. Notification of iThenticate Account and Temporary Password After submitting the application,

the administrator will send an e-

mail to notify the account and

temporary password.

Contact Info.

: Librarian Kwon, Yulee

(Phone) 052-217-1405

(e-Mail) kyl7539@unist.ac.kr

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3. Log in and Reset Your Password

① Access the iThenticate

(www.ithenticate.com)

② Click the ‘Login’ button

③ Enter your UNIST e-Mail

address and temporary

password

④ Check the ‘iThenticate

Terms and Conditions’

⑤ Reset your password

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iTheicate Overview

1. Access the iThenticate iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) > Login

2. iThenticate Interface

Folders for

categorizing your

documents

Your document list

To check the result click the similarity index

icon under the report column

Create new folders

Submit a document

for checking

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How to use iThenticate

1. Submit a Document How to: Go to ‘Submit a Document’ menu > Select a submission method > Submit a file > Upload

Submission methods

Upload a File

A single file submission.

The file may not exceed 400 pages and size may not exceed 40 MB.

File types: MS Word, Text, PostScript, PDF, HTML, Word Perfect WPD,

OpenOffice ODT, RTF, Hangul HWP

Zip File Upload

Submit a standard zip file containing multiple documents. May contain up to

100MB or 1,000 files. Zip file uploads of significant size may require additional

time to complete.

Multiple File Upload Drag & Drop upload (Java Plug-in is needed)

Cut & Paste Submission of text copied and pasted into the submission box.

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2. View Similarity Reports Check the result: Click the similarity index icon under the report column.

Similarity Report

① Similarity (%)

② Matching sources

③ Original source

④ Change the report mode to ‘text-only report’ mode

⑤ Download a PDF version of a similarity report

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Types of similarity reports

① PDF Report

② Text-Only Report – Similarity Report ③ Text-Only Report – Content Tracking

④ Text-Only Report - Summary Report ⑤Text-Only Report – Largest Matches

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3. Excluding Specific Sources and Small Matches Exclude Sources: If the user determines a matched source is not needed, the user remove the match to

recalculate the similarity.

① Similarity report > All Sources > Exclude Sources

② Select the sources by clicking in the check box > Exclude

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Filters & Settings: It is available to exclude quotes, bibliography and small matches by setting ‘filters &

settings’ option to recalculate the similarity.

① Similarity report > Filters & Settings > Check options > Apply Changes

② Filter options

※ Filter options can be applied to each folders. Refer to folder options on p.10.

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Create Folders and Set Folder Options

Creating folders and folder groups will help a user organize their documents. And a user can set folder options to

check and calculate similarity.

1. Create a Folder Types of folders: Folder Group / Folder

2. Folder Options for Checking Similarity Exclude quotes Exclude quotes from comparison

Exclude bibliography Exclude bibliography from comparison

Exclude Phases Exclude added phases from documents

※ How to add phrases: Folder > Settings > Phrase Exclusions

Exclude Small Matches Exclude match instances from the Similarity Report.

Exclude Small Sources Exclude sources from the Similarity Report.

Exclude Sections Exclude the Abstract and Methods and Materials sections from

Similarity Reports.

Limit searches to repositories Choose which collections to search

• CrossCheck - research articles, books, and conference proceedings

provided by the worlds scientific, technical and medical publishers

• Internet - archived and live publicly available internet pages

• Publications - third party periodical, journal, and publication

content including many major professional journals, periodicals, and

business publications

Create new folder

Folder options

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Report Filters

Phrase Exclusions

3. Share a Folder A user can share a selected folder

with other iThenticate users

If a user need this function, please

contact the administrator.

How to share: Folder > Sharing

> Select a registered iThenticate user

iThenticate Guide

Published in July 2015

Questions? Yulee Kwon

(052-217-1405, kyl7539@unist.ac.kr)

UNIST Library (http://library.unist.ac.kr)