iThenticate Introduces New Plagiarism Detection Service for Individual Authors and Researchers

Individual authors can now access the same plagiarism prevention service used by leading scientific, medical and technical organizations.

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- iParadigms, the leader in plagiarism prevention software, today announced a new service that provides individual authors, researchers and freelance writers access to the company's award-winning iThenticate solution. The new service, available today at research.ithenticate.com, allows individuals to cross-reference their manuscripts against a massive database of scholarly material in the scientific, technical and medical (STM) fields with the goal of vetting their material, ensuring that any non-original content is accurately and comprehensively cited before submission.

Leading publishers in the scientific, technical and medical fields rely on iThenticate for professional plagiarism prevention. Now individual authors and researchers can use the same service to detect matched content in their manuscripts prior to publication. Detecting an unattributed source prior to submission can be instrumental to a manuscript's approval within a number of governing bodies, including peer reviewed journals, academic departments, research groups, conference proceedings or granting agencies.

"Global publishers and prominent granting bodies use iThenticate in their editorial processes," said Bob Creutz, general manager of iThenticate. "It was a natural progression to provide authors and researchers the capability to use the same technology for editorial due diligence at the individual level."

Trusted by Leaders

iThenticate serves leading international publishers and granting agencies. Publishing customers include Elsevier, IEEE, Wiley-Blackwell, Nature, Taylor & Francis, Harper Collins and Random House. Government granting agencies, including the National Science Foundation, The U.S. Department of Energy, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, use iThenticate to check grant proposals and manuscripts for originality.

Easy-to-Use Technology

iThenticate is easy-to-use for individual authors and researchers. Using the web-based interface, a user submits a document for comparison to iThenticate's extensive data repository. Within seconds, iThenticate produces a report that highlights content matches and provides links to significant text found within iThenticate's databases.   

Comprehensive, Proprietary Database

Unlike other plagiarism detection services, iThenticate compares every submitted paper to a massive database of content from over 80,000 major newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books as well as a database of over 12 billion current and archived pages of web content. In addition, iThenticate checks materials from over 13,000 scholarly journals and more than 150 STM publishers.

About iParadigms, LLC and iThenticate

iParadigms, LLC is the world's leading provider of web-based solutions for plagiarism prevention. The company's products also include Turnitin, used by educators worldwide to check students' papers for originality, to enable web-based peer review and for digital grading of student work. iParadigms' iThenticate solution enables publishers, research facilities, government agencies, financial institutions, legal firms and now authors and researchers to reliably check submitted materials for originality before publication. The company's solutions check millions of documents each month and are used in over 100 countries. iParadigms is headquartered in Oakland, CA with an international office located in Newcastle, United Kingdom. iParadigms is backed by Warburg Pincus.  http://www.iparadigms.com and http://www.ithenticate.com.

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