This document discusses plagiarism, tools for detecting plagiarism, and how to avoid plagiarism. It defines plagiarism as taking others' words and passing them off as one's own. It describes several plagiarism detection tools, both commercial (Turnitin, Urkund) and free. It outlines the UGC Academic Integrity Act of 2018, which excludes certain text like references and quotations from plagiarism checks. Finally, it provides tips for avoiding plagiarism, such as thorough research, using own writing style, and citing all external sources.

1. Software tools for checking
plagiarism
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian, K.N.Raj Library
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram
26th August 2021

2. CONTENTS
Plagiarism
Plagiarism issues
Plagiarism detection tools
Tips to avoid plagiarism

3. Avenues of Publication
 Journal article
 Article in a collection
 Contribution to
newspapers
 Book
 Book editorial
 Book section / chapter
 Book review
 WP / OP / Notes
 Commentaries
 Internal or external
report
 Dissertation / Thesis
 WP / OP / Notes
 Popular publications
 Blogs / Wikis
 Multimedia
 Video
 Podcasts

4. Plagiarism issues
Taking other peoples words and pass off as one’s own
Plagiarism instances
Copying a large portion
Failing to put quotation marks / indentation
Missing out citations / references
Copying and changing words here and there
Self plagiarism

5. Plagiarism Checking
Technology to trace plagiarism in documents using
similarity between documents and sources.
Commercial tools - Turnitin, Urkund
Free s/w
UGC Act 2018
UGC Act 2018
Journal Editorial Policy

6. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion from
Plagiarism
The similarity checks for plagiarism shall exclude
the following:
i. All quoted work reproduced with all necessary
permission and/or attribution.
ii. All references, bibliography, table of content,
ii. All references, bibliography, table of content,
preface and acknowledgements.
iii. All generic terms, laws, standard symbols and
standards equations.

7. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion from
Plagiarism
Note
The research shall be based on original ideas, which
shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis,
observations, results, conclusions and
observations, results, conclusions and
recommendations only and shall not have any
similarities.
It shall exclude a common knowledge or coincidental
terms, up to fourteen (14) consecutive words.

8. Turnitin

9. Urkund

10. Plagiarism Check
Copyleaks https://copyleaks.com/
Dupli Checker https://www.duplichecker.com/
Plagiarism Checker
https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker
Prepost SEO https://www.prepostseo.com/plagiarism-
checker
Viper http://scanmyessay.com/

11. Avoiding plagiarism
Thorough literature search and reading
Copy from external sources as little as possible
Use quotation marks / indentation for all external
sources
Include citation and references for all external sources
Develop your own writing style, and adhere to it
Develop your own writing style, and adhere to it
Use plagiarism checker

12. Thank you!
V. Sriram
Email: vsrirams@gmail.com