A Real-Life Instance of Plagiarism Detection by SCAM: An article about detecting plagiarism with detection software. Links to other stories.
Avoiding and Detecting Plagiarism: Tips for teachers and students on how to avoid and detect plagiarism. Emphasis on cut and paste plagiarism from the Internet.
Copy Detection Mechanisms: Article by 2 computer scientists, Narayanan Shivakumar and Hector Garcia-Molina,from Stanford University detailing how plagiarism databases work.
Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search: Finds copies of content on the web to help find plagiarism and copyright infringement.
Houston Chronicle Editorial: Editorial on detecting and preventing student plagiarism by Gary Galles, economics professor from Pepperdine University.
Hyperstamps: Cyber copyright service.
Internet Plagiarism: Strategies to Deter Academic Misconduct: Article about plagiarism. Some good links.
MyDropBox.com: Provides technology services to detect and prevent cases of Internet plagiarism.
NPR : All Things Considered : Plagiarism: Realaudio-format radio report. Robert Siegel speaks with Louis Bloomfield, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia. Suspicious about student cheating, the professor designed a computer program that would identify student plagarism. The program identified 122 students whose work suggested cheating (Segment is 4 minutes in duration).
Plagiarism Checker: Provides a free service to determine the originality of texts based on comparisons with Internet searches.
Plagiarism Detection: Site to download YAP (Yet Another Plague), a plagiarism detection program. Can also download articles about YAP and plagiarism from ftp sites.
Plagiarism.org.uk: Business which investigates texts for plagiarism and copying by third parties. Studies academic, industrial and literary texts of all types.
Salon News Magazine: An article about the problems that may occur with plagiarism detection software.
South Shore Educational Collaborative: Plagiarism: Information and links for teachers wanting to check for plagiarism. Note: links are to sites that offer papers for free or for sale.
Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Discusses tools for exposing cybercheating. Sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education
Turn It In: Provides a service to determine the originality of texts based on comparisons with their internal database and net-wide searches. Five free trials.
Urkund.com: A fully automated paid service designed to help a school deal with plagiarism. It requires no software installation; all that is needed is a web browser and an e-mail address.
Using the Web to fight Plagiarism: Martin Holmes provides tips on using AltaVista to locate resources from which a student may have plagiarized material.