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iThenticate Yourself

The University’s new plagiarism software for researchers is here! The Office of Academic Integrity, the Library, and IST are pleased to offer iThenticate as a tool for uWaterloo authors to check their own documents.

iThenticate is a plagiarism-detection tool designed to help researchers ensure the originality of their written work. Provided by the company that created Turnitin, iThenticate checks documents against the same databases as Turnitin, but with a focus on meeting the needs of researchers.

Faculty members, graduate students, and other uWaterloo authors will find iThenticate useful for checking articles, book chapters, grant proposals, and theses and dissertations. Key examples of when you might use this software include:

• Anytime you would like to double-check that you have sufficiently cited your sources
  
  
• Before submitting a manuscript for publication
  
  
• Before submitting a thesis or dissertation

To get started with iThenticate, you need to sign up for an account through IST (see below). Once you have an account, the iThenticate interface allows you to create folders, upload documents, and check them against any or all of these databases:

• CrossCheck – a database populated with journal articles, conference proceedings, books, etc. provided by a wide range of publishers including most large scholarly publishers
  
  
• iParadigm's internet crawler – archived back nearly a decade
  
  
• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses – a research database that includes theses and dissertations from more than 1,000 North American and European graduate schools
  
  
• Aggregators, databases, and other content providers – over 90 million online and offline subscription content and research titles from sources such as ABC-CLIO, Cengage Learning, EBSCOhost, Emerald Journals, Gale InfoTrac, One File, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, PubMed/Medline, SAGE Reference.

To sign up for an iThenticate account, contact:

Information Systems and Technology
Ext. 36950

For more information about iThenticate, see the iThenticate FAQ or contact:

Library
Ext. 35623

For questions about academic integrity at the University of Waterloo, contact:

Office of Academic Integrity
Ext. 38562

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