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iThenticate
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iThenticate is a plagiarism detection service for the corporate market, from Turnitin, LLC, which also runs Plagiarism.org.

History

The service was launched in 2004 and is headquartered in Oakland, California. It is marketed to "publishers, news agencies, corporations, law firms, and government agencies".[1] As of 2007, its clients included the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank.[2]

While iThenticate is best known as a plagiarism detection service, collaborative efforts with the user base have created a number of new use cases. The most prominent aside from plagiarism detection include intellectual property protection and document-versus-document(s) analysis. iThenticate also allows for integration with content management systems (CMSs) and manuscript tracking systems (MTSs).[citation needed]

CrossCheck Powered by iThenticate is a re-branded version of the iThenticate service developed in partnership with CrossRef, a community of notable scientific, technical, and medical publishers. CrossCheck received the Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers Award for Publishing Innovation in 2008.[3]

Following a 2004 high-profile case in the Hartford Courant, the newspaper subscribed to iThenticate.[4] The company then extended invitations to other newspapers, but stated that it would maintain the confidentiality of these subscribers.[4]

The company made headlines on July 2, 2006, when the New York Post reported that iThenticate software had found several passages of plagiarism in Ann Coulter's book, Godless.[5] Both Coulter's syndicator and her publisher rejected these claims, describing them as irresponsible and stating that minimal text matching of common subjects does not equal plagiarism.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Emerald partners with anti-plagiarism database in publishing industry first!". Emerald Group Publishing. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
  2. ^ "Looking Over Turnitin's Shoulder". BusinessWeek. March 13, 2007. Archived from the original on March 11, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
  3. ^ "ALPSP Awards 2008 - Winners". Archived from the original on September 21, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
  4. ^ a b "Plagiarism Detection Tools". American Journalism Review. 2004. Archived from the original on October 28, 2010. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
  5. ^ Recchia, Philip (July 2, 2006). "Copycatty Coulter Pilfers Prose: Pro". New York Post. Archived from the original on July 5, 2006.
  6. ^ "Ann Coulter's Syndicate Absolves Pundit of Plagiarism Charge". Book Standard. July 10, 2006. Archived from the original on July 16, 2010.

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