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.

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

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