These programs are available free of charge and can be used easily online. The Open Programs for Plagiarism Detection Brief descriptions of their main features are given and the personal experience is also mentioned.ģ. The author has selected the tools that are currently most popular in the field of plagiarism detection. It is mentioned above that there are several online plagiarism detection tools. Some of these programs are good for schoolteachers and university professors to detect plagiarism in the students' essays and homework, while the more sophisticated ones are good for scientific journals and research funding organizations. This paper surveys the different available programs for identifying plagiarism and gives brief descriptions of each. Some of these programs are free, while the rest are paid for. All the programs that detect plagiarism are online. Since the internet facilitated plagiarism, the cure came also from the internet. However, in the latter case, the graduate student will obtain an unmerited qualifications or promotion. This is not a call to tolerate the former case, because it leads to weakness in the knowledge of the secondary school student. For instance, there is no comparison between the case of a secondary school student copying homework from a classmate, and a graduate research student taking the results of other researchers and claiming them as obtained from lab work. The importance of detecting plagiarism is clear, although the consequences differ from one case to another. Since the emergence of the internet, plagiarism has become an easy job through the copy and paste procedure, which can take few minutes, while the original work may have taken months of hard work. Plagiarism as such includes any improper use of any work of others without giving them a credit. It can be direct "copy and paste" or taking the idea but modifying the wording. The most important one is not mentioning the source. Taking the work of others can be in different forms. In the internet world, it can be similar to other "cybercrimes". This is fraud, forgery, piracy and copyright infringement. Plagiarism is to take the work of others and claim it to be yours. Keywords: Plagiarism, Research Misconduct, Research Ethics, Internet Cheating, Plagiarism Detection Programs, Plagiarism Detection Tools The comparison helps individuals as well as organizations to select the plagiarism detection program that is most relevant for their objectives. This paper presents comparison between the most famous plagiarism detection programs. Some of these programs are free, while some are commercially available.
Many computer programs exist to identify plagiarism in scientific papers and essays in order to establish scientific honesty and to upgrade the level of university researches. This has prompted many international organizations to produce detection tools to spot plagiarism in scientific articles and research reports. The action of "copy and paste" has become extensive in all fields, and the scientific research domain is no less than other spheres. Abstract: With the spread of using Internet in teaching and learning, and in literature reviews, plagiarism has spread widely, where researchers take readymade researches and claim them to themselves.