Here is a very interesting and potentially useful tool for strengthening scholarship. CrossRef, a publishing industry association, and the software company iParadigms announced a deal this week to create CrossCheck, an antiplagiarism program for academic journals. For details see the Chronicle of Higher Education story at http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2546n.htm http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2546n.htm. One of the obstacles that I have come across - in ETD movement in India is the issue of plagiarism. Such software solutions should help us combat this obstacle to ETD /Open Access movements. Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 ISiM - new age school for the knowledge economy www.isim.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.