Digital plagiarism--the Web giveth and the Web shall taketh.
Publishing students' and researchers' papers on the World Wide Web (WWW) facilitates the sharing of information within and between academic communities. However, the ease of copying and transporting digital information leaves these authors' ideas open to plagiarism. Using tools such as the Plagiarism.org database, which compares submissions to reports and papers available on the Internet, could discover instances of plagiarism, revolutionize the peer review process, and raise the quality of published research everywhere.
Barrie
J M
JM
Biophysics Group, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA. barriej@socrates.berkeley.edu
Presti
D E
DE
D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D008373:Manuscripts as Topic; D010380:Peer Review / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D015714:Plagiarism