Plagiarism Checking Softwares
There are lot of softwares availables for plagiarism checking, both in free mode and paid mode. Plagiarism softwares can be classified into two categories:
- Organizational (Academinc, journalism etc)
- Web based
Organizational: This type of plagiarism softwares can be used for any form of plagiarism check, as they cover a wide range of proprietry databases of the organizations (academic, industry and others). They have their crawlers to crawl the web and gather information from the internet. They have a diversified centralised database repository that is growing every single second.
The major users of this kind of Plagiarism softwares are School, Colleges, Universities, Publishing houses, Media Agencies, Periodicals.
Software providers for this plagiarism need are:
- Plagiarism Detector
- CLF Softwares
- EVE Plagiarism Detection System
- Plagiarism Detect
- Turnitin
- Ithenticate
- Check for Plagiarism
Web based: This type of plagiarism softwares checks for the duplicate work over the internet only. The interface for checking the plagiarism varies according to the service provider on the internet. Some inerface allows you to enter the hyperlink of the page that you want to check for plagiarism e.g. Copyscape.com; while some interface allows you to paste your text in an window, or upload a document in .doc, .txt, .rtf etc formats. Example of such interface is DupliChecker.com.
The major users of this kind of Plagiarism softwares are Teachers, Students, Editors, Publishers, Content writers and Freelance writers.
Software providers for this plagiarism need are:
All these softwares are helpful in self analysis of the work you have done. Its recommended to perform a web based plagiarism check before submitting you work (thesis, reports, papers, essays). All the sites that are specified above have their crawlers to crawl the internet just like the search engines.
One alternate to check for plagiarism are the search engines like google, yahoo, bing etc. Even though it does not give results in a check base, but there results are good to avoid plagiarism, specially when you are preparing for the work.
Recommendation: For students and research workers, its highly advised to perform a plagiarism check by Turnitin and Ithenticate as these two are majorly used in academics plagiarism check (Personal experience).
