Use Of Plagiarism Software Like Turnitin,

Urkund And Other Open Source Software Tools

Dr. N. Muninathan
Scientist cum Research Coordinator,
Central Research Laboratory
Meenakshi Medical College Hospital
and Research institute
Kanchipuram
Plagiarism Checkers

• Software that searches the Web for duplicate textual content. It

may be a stand alone program installed in the user's computer or a
function of a website

• Universities increasingly use anti plagiarism software to

determine if students have copied someone else's prose, and
writers use it to see if others are using their copyrighted work in
full or in part
Plagiarism finding tools : Online and stand alone software's
Turnitin
• Turnitin is a web-based plagiarism detection software provided by
Turnitin.com.

• Turnitin is a tool to find and indicate the matching contents.

• Turnitin’s plagiarism prevention tool generates originality reports that

show how much of a document is original, cited from other sources, or
unoriginal.

• For students to identify their mistakes or weaknesses in citations so as to

improve their academic writing skills.
• Compares with huge collections of e-resources available around
the world.

• Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000

institutions in 150 countries.
Turnitin covers over all major journal database
Turnitin working model
Features of Turnitin
• Easy to submit your papers, articles, book chapters, theses, and etc.

• Find and get source of the matching contents.

• Instant receipt of submission.

• Feedback through same interface.

• Useful for checking referencing before submission.

Turnitin differentiate similarity index by colour
Turnitin Subscription
Account setup for users
Paper Submission
 Uploaded Document must be following
criteria

• File must be less than 40 MB

• Files must have at least 20 words of text

• The maximum paper length is 400 pages

• File types allowed: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect,

PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and plain text
Similarity check and report
 URKUND
• URKUND is a completely automated system against plagiarism
(Anti-plagiarism software) and is being successfully used at
universities and colleges all around the world.

• Urkund compares textual similarity and subject similarity from

the published data from the internet

• Universities who have signed MoU with INFLIBNET Centre, which

come under section 12(B)/2f of UGC Act and eligible for funding
from UGC, will be getting the software free of cost from
INFLIBNET Centre.
Urkund process
Login portal
Document submission
• Submission by mail: The document can be mailed only from registered
RECEIVER / SUBMITTER Email to the analysis address.
• Each RECEIVER and SUBMITTER account is specific to an Institute / University.

• Upload by Portal: The document can be uploaded by login through the portal

• Learning Management System

• Result analysis
Best wishes for your scientific publication
Thank you