Plagiarism Resource Site

An arts and culture critic at the Miami Herald "has been fired for copying articles he wrote for other news outlets." The critic defended his practice by "comparing it to a professor delivering the same lecture to different students." The paper maintained that his "'self-plagiarism' was more like a student who turns in the same term paper for multiple courses."

A growing number of British universities, including Leeds, has subscribed to Turnitin.com to counter undergraduate plagiarism.

Turnitin announces a plan to offer its plagiarism service via the BlackBoard course management system.

A new survey conducted by the JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service reports that a quarter of British undergraduates plagiarize content from the Internet.

South African universities consider the detection route to combat plagiarism but voice concern over privacy issues.

Plagiarism is widespread in India, but it chiefly consists of "cutting-and-pasting" and mainly occurs at the undergraduate level.

Plagiarism-Finder , developed by German software company, Mediaphor, "automatically compares any digital document . . . to billions of web pages." See press release for further details.

K-Praxis, a textual analytics enterprise, has begun a series of articles on plagiarism.

The lecturer who uncovered several instances of plagiarism at Newcastle University revisits the controversial case. Newcastle's handling of this controversy points to the institutional challenges that attend implementing a rigorous academic honesty policy. Thanks to anonymous

In response to a plagiarism controversy, Newcastle University (Australia) has conducted a study on attitudes towards plagiarism.