Academically dishonest behavior, such as cheating and plagiarism, presents a challenge on college campuses, exacerbated by new technologies which have increased the ease of academic dishonesty. The first section below provides material for promoting academic integrity in higher education. The second section focuses on resources for preventing and dealing with plagiarism in on-campus and online ...

Plagiarism in the sense of “theft of intellectual property” has been around for as long as humans have produced work of art and research. However, easy access to the Web, large databases, and telecommunication in general, has turned plagiarism into a serious problem for publishers, researchers and educational institutions. In this paper, we concentrate on textual plagiarism (as opposed to plagi...

Hugely facilitated by the Internet, plagiarism by students threatens educational quality and professional ethics worldwide. Plagiarism reduces learning and is correlated with increased fraud and inefficiency on the job, thus lessening competitiveness and hampering development. In this context, the present research examines 48 licenciatura theses and 102 masters theses from five of Mozambique’s ...

AIM To determine the prevalence of plagiarism among medical students in writing essays. METHODS During two academic years, 198 second year medical students attending Medical Informatics course wrote an essay on one of four offered articles. Two of the source articles were available in an electronic form and two in printed form. Two (one electronic and one paper article) were considered less c...

Purpose This research work informs about plagiarism and the consequences of anti-plagiarism services such as Turnitin.com, iThenticate, and PlagiarismDetect.com, in detecting the most recent cheatings in academic and other writings. Design/methodology/approach The most important approach is plagiarism prevention and finding proper solutions for detecting more complex kinds of plagiarisms throug...

Source code plagiarism is a long-standing issue in tertiary computer science education. Many source detection tools have been proposed to aid the of plagiarism. However, existing are not robust pervasive plagiarism-hiding transformations and can be inaccurate plagiarised code. This article presents BPlag, behavioural approach detection. BPlag designed both accurate Greater robustness accuracy a...

As multithreaded programs become increasingly popular, plagiarism of multithreaded programs starts to plague the software industry. Although there has been tremendous progress on software plagiarism detection technology, existing dynamic birthmark approaches are applicable only to sequential programs, due to the fact that thread scheduling nondeterminism severely perturbs birthmark generation a...

Automatic plagiarism detection considering a reference corpus compares a suspicious text to a set of documents in order to relate the plagiarised fragments to their potential source. The suspicious and source documents can be written wether in the same language (monolingual) or in different languages (crosslingual). In the context of the Ph. D., our work has been focused on both monolingual and...