Avoiding and Detecting Plagiarism - Tips for teachers and students on how to avoid and detect plagiarism. Emphasis on cut and paste plagiarism from the Internet.

Copy Detection Mechanisms - Article by 2 computer scientists, Narayanan Shivakumar and Hector Garcia-Molina,from Stanford University detailing how plagiarism databases work.

Copyscape - Finds copies of content on the web to help find plagiarism and copyright infringement.

Hyperstamps - Cyber copyright service.

Internet Plagiarism: Strategies to Deter Academic Misconduct - Article about plagiarism. Some good links.

MyDropBox.com - Provides technology services to detect and prevent cases of Internet plagiarism.

Plagiarism Checker - Provides a free service to determine the originality of texts based on comparisons with Internet searches.

Plagiarism Detection - Site to download YAP (Yet Another Plague), a plagiarism detection program. Can also download articles about YAP and plagiarism from ftp sites.

Plagiarism.org.uk - Business which investigates texts for plagiarism and copying by third parties. Studies academic, industrial and literary texts of all types.

A Real-Life Instance of Plagiarism Detection by SCAM - An article about detecting plagiarism with detection software. Links to other stories.

Salon News Magazine - An article about the problems that may occur with plagiarism detection software.

South Shore Educational Collaborative: Plagiarism - Information and links for teachers wanting to check for plagiarism. Note: links are to sites that offer papers for free or for sale.

Student Plagiarism in an Online World - Discusses tools for exposing cybercheating. Sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education

Turn It In - Provides a service to determine the originality of texts based on comparisons with their internal database and net-wide searches. Five free trials.

Urkund.com - A fully automated paid service designed to help a school deal with plagiarism. It requires no software installation; all that is needed is a web browser and an e-mail address.

Using the Web to fight Plagiarism - Martin Holmes provides tips on using AltaVista to locate resources from which a student may have plagiarized material.

Google Book Search is a plagiarist's nightmare - Slate Magazine - "Will Google Book Search uncover long-buried literary crimes?" Suggests that text searches focusing on books will reveal plagiarism old and new in the literary world. (November 21, 2006)

NPR : All Things Considered : Plagiarism - Realaudio-format radio report. Robert Siegel speaks with Louis Bloomfield, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia. Suspicious about student cheating, the professor designed a computer program that would identify student plagarism. The program identified 122 students whose work suggested cheating (Segment is 4 minutes in duration). (May 9, 2001)