Overview

iThenticate is an easy-to-use tool designed for researchers and scholars to check their original works for any instances of potential plagiarism before submission. This may include manuscripts, dissertations, journal articles, grant proposals and other scholarly work. It helps protect scholarship integrity by allowing researchers to scan for missed citations and other mistakes that could be characterized as plagiarism, thereby protecting the integrity of your scholarship and professional reputation. 

Highlights

The license is co-sponsored by UMN's Research and Innovation and the Office of Information Technology, in partnership with Health Sciences Technology. 

Getting Started

Step 1: Upload

Choose document files to upload to iThenticate.

Upload formats: Single, Zip, Drag & Drop, Cut & Paste

Accepted file formats: Word & Word XML (.doc, .docx), WordPerfect (.wpd), Rich Text Format (.rtf), HTML (.htm, .html), Text (.txt), PostScript (.ps, .eps), and portable document format (.pdf)

Step 2: Compare

Your document is compared against the world's largest comparison database of research and scholarly content, including:

  • 54+ billion current and archived web pages
  • 244 million subscription content sources including 85,000+ publications
  • 200+ million Open Access articles, books, conference proceedings, pre-prints, encyclopedias and abstracts

Step 3: Report

Review the originality of your work in easy-to-use similarity reports.

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