GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING DOCUMENT IN URKUND

FOR SIMILARITY CHECK

URKUND
URKUND is a similarity detection system, used at universities and colleges all around the
world. URKUND's system checks all documents against three central source areas: a. The
Internet b. Published material such as Journals, Books etc. c. previously submitted student
material (e.g. memoranda, case studies and examination works)
AUTHORISED USERS
Faculty Members, Research Scholars and Students of National Law Institute University,
Bhopal are authorised to use the system for similarity detection.
DOCUMENTS COVERED
Project Submission, Dissertation, and Research Paper
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Document files Format: DOC, DOCX
Paper format : Use the standard A4 format
Font : Times New Roman, 12 pt
PLAGIARISM HANDBOOK
To know more about URKUND visit FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/newmoredetails/faq-urkund.html
You may also visit following link for :
  http://static.urkund.com/manuals/URKUND_Plagiarism_Handbook_EN.pdf
SUBMISSION EMAIL ACCOUNT
Scholar/Student/Faculty member should personally send a mail for similarity check from
his/her official/institutional mail account
Your Submission Email Account: ….@nliu.ac.in
to
NLIU Similarity Account: similarity.nliub@analysis.urkund.com
Note: As per UGC INFLIBNET direction separate analysis user account can be created for
eligible Ph.D. guides.
SIGNIFICANT SIMILARITY (%)
In the different URKUND interfaces, percentages and colours are displayed to the reviewer,
but none of these mean, under any circumstances, that the document contains plagiarised text.
What URKUND does is to show similarities between the submitted text and the sources that
is indexed and these similarities, that may have come from quotations used perfectly
correctly, are to be judged by the reviewing teacher or examiner – who then proceeds
according to the rules and regulations that apply to your own organisation (“FAQ,” n.d.). The
LIBRARY, INFLIBNET Centre or URKUND do not recommend any percentage (%). The
criteria depend on supervisor and the policy of university. The software will report even the
cited content or quotation as plagiarised content in the similarity report.
As per NLIU norms the permissible similarity level is 30%.

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If similarity level of the content ranges from 31-50, the candidate and the research supervisor
have to modify the content of the document and reduce the similarity level below 30%. The
modified document has to be submitted for re-evaluation for plagiarism check after a period
of 3 days. If the similarity level is above 50% the research supervisor has to give a justifiable
explanation for the same, the modified document is eligible for re-submission only after 5
days.

TIMING FOR SIMILARITY CHECK

10.00 AM to 4.00 PM (during working days)
SIMILARITY CHECK DO'S AND DON'TS

DO'S

Steps for submission of document for similarity check

 Step 1: Prepare your document (research paper/project/dissertation), use file name for
submission as described in below table, open your institutional email account
(…….@nliu.ac.in) and compose mail ( as per below mentioned mail subject, body of
your email text, file name etc).

Detail for Composing Email for Similarity Check

Document Type File Name Use Subject Body of Email Text

of Email as
Project Enrolment Id Similarity Email id of Guide
Report/Dissertatio Trimester Paper Check – Project Guide Name
n name.docx Project/Thesi
s Researcher:

Name, Course, Class,

Trimester, Enrolment
number
Research Article Enrolment Id.docx Similarity Detail of Researcher:
(in case of Check-
student), First Research My Name & Class/
Name.docx (in Article Enrolment number
case of faculty and Designation
staff)

 Step 2: Attach your document and send this E-mail from your institutional ID
to:  similarity.nliub@analysis.urkund.com
 Step 3: If you have successfully submitted your document, you will receive a
confirmation e-mail in return.
 Step 4: The library will forward report to you and to your guide by e-mail as soon as
possible. Otherwise, you can send request to similarity check e-mail address
plagiarism.check@nliu.ac.in after 2 days, you may also visit library for any
confusion or clarification.
 Step 5: Click to the link given to open the analysis and then click on "export" button
to get analysis report in .pdf file format.

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DON'TS

 Do not use multiple email account Id, email Ids or Ids of your friend, or other
personal email Ids (not provided by the NLIU) for submission your document to
URKUND. It will increase similarity significant %, it will also show the similarity
between your own multiple submissions.
 Do not submit your document without proper subject and body text as recommended
in above table.
 All the authors of the joint project/research paper need not submit their project for
similarity check. Only one of the person from the joint authors may use his/her email
account (i.e. ….@nliu.ac.in) for submission of project/paper for similarity report.
 Do not use "Homogliphs or any other tricks" to bypass similarity check, it is
considered as unfair means, you may be penalised accordance with regulation of
NLIU. 
 Do not send mail without attachment to URKUND, it does not accept any e-mails
without an attachment of file. It will not analyse any text that is written directly in the
body of the email.

For detail if any, you may contact to:

LIBRARY
NATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY, BHOPAL
Email: plagiarism.check@nliu.ac.in