CROSSREF ANNOUNCES CROSSCHECK PLAGIARISM DETECTION SERVICE
Earlier this week CrossRef announced an agreement with iParadigms, LLC to launch the CrossCheck service to aid in verifying the originality of scholarly content. Following on the success of CrossRef’s recent pilot of CrossCheck, the service is scheduled to go live in June.
CrossRef is partnering with iParadigms, LLC to offer our members the opportunity to verify the originality of works submitted for publication using the iThenticate service to check against a vast database of proprietary as well as open web content. Until now, there was no automated way to check submissions against previous publications because the published literature had not been indexed and “text fingerprinted” for this purpose. The CrossCheck database will include the full-text journals of leading academic publishers, and is expected to grow very rapidly over the coming months as CrossRef member publishers sign up for the service.
CrossCheck will be available to all CrossRef members who opt to contribute their content to the database. For more information, see the press release. Or contact CrossRef's new product manager, Gabe Boucher, at gboucher@crossref.org.