Tools for Identifying Potential Misconduct: the CrossCheck Service
from CrossRef Rachael Lammey Product Manager [email protected] 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
• 2006: CrossRef board raises plagiarism as area of concern
• Late 2007/early 2008: pilot with seven publishers and technology partner iParadigms
• June 2008: CrossCheck launched ✓
• Database of content to check text against
• iThenticate software that analyses and compares text"
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Plagiarism Detection
Additional Features
• Exclude quotes
• Exclude bibliography
• Exclude small sources/matches
• Section exclusion
• Exclude set phrases
• What else would people like to see?
• 555 publishers • Over 38.9 million content items
indexed • 101,000+ titles
• 100,000+ manuscripts being uploaded every month
• Title and member list on the CrossRef website"
Documents Uploaded to iThenticate by CrossCheck Member Publishers
www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html [email protected] @CrossRefNews