Plagiarism Prevention Software
Now Available!

Turnitin Plagiarism Prevention Software has been licensed for campus use. It is a tool for faculty to help students learn how to properly cite sources in scholarly writing such as papers and reports.

Papers submitted to Turnitin are searched against Turnitin’s proprietary database consisting of “over 10 million student papers, … millions of pages of books and journals and over 6 billion pages of the current and archived Internet.”

Results of the search are returned in a customized Originality Report which shows any text matches found in the Turnitin databases with links to the matches.  It is up to the instructor to make the final decision as to whether plagiarism has occurred.

Instructor Quick Start Guide:
http://turnitin.com/static/pdf/tii_instructor_qs.pdf

To use Turnitin with your courses you must first
Request an Account:

This statement, provided by the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, should be put into your syllabus if you choose to use Turnitin:

All students are expected to be familiar with and abide by the University's academic integrity policies, available in the Undergraduate Catalog (http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/policies/course/
integrity.shtml) or the Graduate School Policies and Procedures Manual (http://www.grad.buffalo.edu/policies). Plagiarism detection software may be used by individual instructors or the institution to aid in determining the originality of student work.