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House of Cheat:
Cybercheating, Plagiarism, and Intellectual Property Theft
Theresa Gillis and Janeanne Rockwell-Kincanon
| Plagiarism.org | CopyCatch Gold |
| Glatt Plagiarism Screening Program | Essay Verification Engine (EVE) |
| IntegriGuard | WordCHECK KeyWORD Software |
| Name/Developers | Plagiarism.org / iParadigms, Inc. at UC Berkeley |
| URL | http://www.plagiarism.org Student Site: http://www.TurnItIn.com |
| Scope of Search | All previous student submissions to TurnItIn.com; the estimated 800 million publicly-accessible websites |
| Demo | Free for 5 manuscripts |
| Cost | Individual Instructor
account:$1 per upload, min. $20; increase in $20
increments, max. 100 uploads per term. Institutional accounts negotiated individually |
| Method of Use | Students in registered classes submit papers through TurnItIn.com, where each paper is “fingerprinted” and compared against texts in the database.Report emailed to prof within 24 hours with degree of originality and suspected sources |
| Comments | Papers from mills can get by the first time submitted; cannot yet search PDF files |
| Name/Developers | Glatt Plagiarism Screening Program (CD-ROM)/Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc. |
| URL | http://www.plagiarism.com |
| Scope of Search | n/a |
| Demo | Not available |
| Cost | $300; or $500 packaged with the teaching program |
| Method of Use | Program eliminates every 5th word and evaluates the student’s accuracy and speed in replacing them. |
| Comments | Useful for detecting plagiarism from an unidentifiable source, because it evaluates how well a student remembers “own” writing |
| Name/Developers | IntegriGuard / IntegriGuard, Inc. |
| URL | http://www.integriguard.com
Student Site: http://www.paperbin.com |
| Scope of Search | 26,500+ previously submitted papers, plus phrase searching on internet (details not given) |
| Demo | 6 months |
| Cost | $4.95 per month per instructor; accounts not charged when inactive |
| Method of Use | Student submits paper to paperbin.com; system checks a limited number of passages and their context for similarities to previously submitted papers.Profs get report of pass or fail and the specific passages checked.The failed passages show a duplicate in a matching paper, but do not indicate the origin of that paper. |
| Comments | Like with Plagiarism.org, papers from mills can get by the first time submitted. |
| Name/Developers | CopyCatch Gold |
| URL | http://www.copycatch.freeserve.co.uk/vocalyse.htm |
| Scope of Search | unknown as of 29 Aug., 2002 |
| Demo | unknown as of 29 Aug., 2002 |
| Cost | £250 per year for single user licence. Site licences available. |
| Method of Use | unknown as of 29 Aug., 2002 |
| Comments | all common document types |
| Name/Developers | Essay Verification Engine (EVE) / CaNexus |
| URL | http://www.canexus.com/eve/index3.shtml |
| Scope of Search | The Internet |
| Demo | 15 days |
| Cost | Individual account $19.99 one time only; Site licenses and bulk orders by request |
| Method of Use | User selects file(s) from local system into EVE’s wizard; takes several minutes to search |
| Comments | Had success getting papers from Evil House of Cheat |
| Name/Developers | WordCHECK KeyWORD Software / Information Analytics |
| URL | http://www.wordchecksystems.com/ |
| Scope of Search | WordCHECK Basic: 1000 archive documents; WordCHECK Pro 3000 archive documents |
| Demo | 30 days, up to 4 (or 5?) documents |
| Cost | With educational discount, Basic $95, Pro $293 ($195-495 without); additional archive units for sale |
| Method of Use | User creates own archives of profiles, against which the system matches patterns of keywords |
| Comments | Because of the need to build own archives, WordCHECK is difficult to use to fight term paper mills, but has other possible educational assessment functions. It is also marketed to publishers, academic societies, lawyers, and speechwriters for text analysis. |
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Updated (minimally) 29 Augest, 2002
Original date March 2000: jrk