Plagiarism

Plagiarism is using someone else's work without acknowledging the source of that work. 

Plagiarism is easier and in some ways more tempting when using digital technologies, it is also easier to find. 

These are some of the tools that can be used to check for plagiarism. These are free tools many schools and all universities and polytechnics have some very sophisticated technology for finding plagiarism. 

1- Plagium

2- Turnitin

3- Dupli Checker

4- iThenticate

This is not a free service but there are some interesting papers and research on plagiarism.

iThenticate is a service offered by Plagiarism.org,  geared more toward professional writing and scholarly research. Publishers like Oxford University Press use iThenticate for its Cross Check software, which includes a database of more than 31 million articles and 67,664 books and journals.


5- Plagiarism Checker

PlagiarismChecker.com makes it simple for educators to check for copied work by pasting phrases from a student's paper into a search box. The system can search through either Google or Yahoo.

6- Plagiarismdetect

A few clicks and your text will be checked for plagiarism. Firstly, you upload your text (paste it to the checking area or upload a file). Then the system breaks it into small linguistic units and checks it for similarities against all the websites that are open for indexation and also our private database.

7-Plagiarisma.net

Plagiarisma has a search box as well as a software download available for Windows. Users can also search for entire URLs and files in HTML, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, ODT and PDF formats.

8- Eve Plagiarism Detection System

One of the older services on this list, having performed almost 150 million scans since its creation in 2000. It charges   $29.99 for unlimited use.

Source: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/06/top-8-plagiarism-detector-tools-for.html