In order for an iThenticate to be created post-graduate students must contact their supervisor for approval and request the supervisor or course co-coordinator to send an emait to to request an account is created.Īn email from will provide a temporary password, username to your ACU email address. IThenticate is also available to post-graduate students involved in research.
You will need to keep a record of this password elsewhere. Also the iThenticate site is not integrated with the ACU network or LEO, therefore any changes to passwords will not occur in iThenticate. Please note that iThenticate passwords cannot contain special characters such as the period characters such as ("."). Once you log in you will be prompted to enter a new password.You will receive an email from with a temporary password, your username is your ACU email address.To request access to iThenticate Academic staff must contact their Head of School or supervisor for approval and request the Head of School or supervisor to send an email to to create the account. Researchers can also identify and address potential areas of concern in early writing processes by using iThenticate Academic staff Journal editors, publishers, and thesis examiners often use iThenticate to delete and deter plagiarism and self-plagiarism. iThenticate forms part of the University's suite of support for research integrity. The subject knowledge of an editorial expert is vital in order to interpret the Similarity Check report and determine whether there are any grounds for concern.IThenticate is a web-based platform that compares text in uploaded documents with millions of items of existing scholarship and webpages to identify matching text. Re-used text that has been legitimately cited, the Bibliography and Methods texts may all contribute to the similarity score. It is important to check which sentences are detected as similar because sometimes these reports. A similarity score of 30% could mean 30% text in common with one source but could equally mean 1% text in common with 30 different sources. The plagiarism based on a Ithenticate report needs to be considered by the reviewers and editors. Note that a high similarity score does not necessarily indicate plagiarized text. Figures and equations cannot be checked at present. The default similarity report view gives the percentage of the text of the manuscript which has overlap with one or more published articles. To request an account, simply reach out to your Publishing contact at Elsevier. This report will be archived separately from the ETD. The final similarity report must be included in the submission of the ETD to the Graduate School. Editors may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or post-publication using the standalone tool. Students must run their ETD through iThenticate and the similarity report must be reviewed by the student and advisor prior to scheduling the final examination. Elsevier's contribution consists of 10 million articles and 7000 books and is ever-increasing as all newly published articles are added.įor a searchable list of all participating publishers, please visit: Īll new submissions to many Elsevier journals are automatically screened using Crossref Similarity Check within the editorial system. We encourage students to ask the Graduate Writing Center for iThenticate reports on draft class papers. Note that even this database is not entirely exhaustive: research published by non-participating publishers or before the digital era may be absent. These questions and answers have been prepared so students, instructors, and thesis advisors can better understand iThenticatehow it works and the role it plays in supporting academic integrity in thesis publications. Over 200 CrossRef members, including Elsevier, collaborate by donating full-text journal articles and book chapters to create a unique database of over 50 million articles.
Crossref Similarity Check is powered by the Ithenticate software from iParadigms, known in the academic community as providers of Turnitin. In 2008, Crossref and the STM publishing community came together to develop Crossref Similarity Check, a service that helps editors to verify the originality of papers. Software solutions, therefore, require cooperation between (ideally) all publishing houses. Cases of suspected plagiarism are rarely limited to one journal or publisher.