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Detecting Plagiarism using Turnitin.com

CSI Staff

Staff Writer

Center for Support of Instruction

Published: 0 2007

Category: » Fac-resources » Plagiarism

Turnitin.com has a database of over a million papers submitted to them, a digitized version of the Gutenberg Collection of Literary Classics, and papers pulled from the Internet and various "paper mills," (i.e., services that sell term papers). However, the Turnitin.com database currently does not search books or articles in subscription databases available through the UMUC Library Databases, or any other subscription database such as The New York Times on the Web. For those resources, it is best to search the UMUC Library Databases and/or supplement your Turnitin.com review with a search in a Web search engine (e.g., google.com)

All UMUC faculty and staff currently teaching or supporting teaching activities worldwide are eligible for Turnitin accounts. Request for Turnitin accounts should be sent the Office of Library Services by using the Turnitin.com Account Request Form.

For additional information about Turnitin.com and how to use it in your classroom please see the Office of Library services website. 

The parent organization of Turnitin.com is Plagiarism.org. For tips on preventing plagiarism, you may find the Research Resources section helpful.