What are the main benefits of iThenticate?
iThenticate is the premier tool for researchers and professional writers to check their original works for potential plagiarism. With an easy to use submission process that checks for similarity against the world’s top published works, researchers, and institutions can feel confident that their academic reputation will be protected.
Only iThenticate is embedded into top publisher’s workflow and process. Through our trusted partnership with Crossref, 1,500 publishers license iThenticate and rely on it to check for plagiarism when screening and reviewing article submissions. Institutions and researchers can feel much more confident about their submission and acceptance chances, knowing that by using iThenticate they have the same data and information as the publisher.
Can iThenticate be used by Admissions Offices?
Yes. For Admissions offices, iThenticate has an easy to use submission process that checks incoming application documents (essays, short answers, letters of recommendation, etc) for similarity against the world’s top published works and a repository of more than 90 billion current and archived web pages. The written portions of the application packet are the most subjective and take the most time to review, so having a solution that provides a quantifiable metric without increasing the review time helps to protect your reputation while fitting seamlessly into your current application review process.
Against what resources will my manuscript be compared?
iThenticate compares submissions to premium academic content including: premium scholarly journals, books, law reviews, patents, dissertations & theses, pre-prints, conference proceedings, and internet pages. Learn more about our constantly growing database of content.
If desired, a private repository can be established to store your documents. Administrators can choose whether storing to the private repository is enabled for all users. Every user can choose to store their uploaded document into the private repository. The private repository can be searched against to discover text similarity across the items uploaded at your institution. This can be valuable in detecting research misconduct including self plagiarism.
What are common uses for iThenticate during research projects?
- Review grant proposals to discover any overlap in content or intent prior to submitting the proposal to secure necessary funding
- Do a literature review to discover and evaluate the work already present in the field. Discover authors and journals that might be a good fit as you begin your research
- Continuously review manuscript drafts to identify and resolve any citation errors
- Collaborate with co-authors, peers, or editors as the manuscript is reviewed and revised
- Ensure that the final work, whether grant proposal, dissertation/thesis, or journal article protects the author and institution’s reputation
What are common uses for iThenticate with admissions applications?
- Screen written responses on incoming applications for potential plagiarism
- Share written responses with the admissions team or departmental reviewers
- Review written work in more detail to evaluate text matches
- Examine international documents for content that might be plagiarised
- Compare a document to up to 5 other documents
- Ensure that applicants that are granted admission fit the academic standards held by your organization
- Confirm the work of meritorious scholarship recipients
- Defer suspicion by providing a quantitative metric to one of the most subjective portions of the application process
- Reduce risk and protect your institutional brand without increasing staff workload and continuing to save time throughout the admission review process
Is there a user manual or instructions for using iThenticate?
Visit the iThenticate Help Pages or the Quick Start Guide.
How do I submit a document?
There are a variety of ways to submit a document: Upload a single file, Upload a compressed zip file (may contain up to 1000 files, or 100MB), or Cut & Paste text. For complete instructions, visit our help pages.
What are the document submission requirements?
The file may not exceed 800 pages. The file size may not exceed 100 MB. The word count of one submission should not exceed 25,000 words. Files of larger size may be reduced in size by removal of non-text content. Files that are password protected, encrypted, hidden, system files, or read only files cannot be uploaded or submitted to iThenticate.
The zip file upload accepts up to 1000 files or 200MB of zipped information. A zip file to be uploaded may not exceed either limit. Zip files should be checked to ensure only usable file formats are included in the upload.
What File Types can be uploaded to iThenticate?
- Microsoft Word® (DOC and DOCX)
- Word XML
- Plain Text (TXT)
- Adobe PostScript®
- Portable Document Format (PDF) created with Adobe or Microsoft Word
- HTML
- Corel WordPerfect® (WPD)
- Rich Text Format (RTF)
What are the system requirements?
- Microsoft® Windows® 7+, Mac OS X v10.4.11+
- 3GB of RAM or more
- 1024x768 display or higher
- Broadband internet connection
- We support the latest and one previous version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Windows browsers.
- Internet browser set to allow all cookies from ithenticate.com
- Javascript enabled
What languages does iThenticate support?
The iThenticate interface currently supports the following languages: English, Korean, Japanese, German, Spanish Latin American, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, French, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Arabic.
Which international languages does iThenticate have content for in its database?
iThenticate searches for content matches in over 170 languages including Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Thai, Korean, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Farsi, Russian, and Turkish. Please note that iThenticate will match text between text of the same language.
Where can I find information about iThenticate's system status?
View the system status page: https://turnitin.statuspage.io/
