To support responsible research practices at MU, the Office
of Research encourages researchers’ use of iThenticate software to prescreen
grant proposals and scholarly papers for possible plagiarism or misuse of
text. Checking your work for missed
citations and/or duplication prior to submission or publication prevents
research and scholarly misconduct and helps to ensure research integrity at
MU.
iThenticate compares the text of uploaded documents against
both the internet and nearly 50 million scholarly content items, as well as more
than 105 million news sources, magazines, and books. Users will obtain a similarity score, report
and summary, and within minutes are able to review the results of found matched
content.
Federal agencies,
such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), as well as scholarly journals use
iThenticate.
Types of plagiarism in research are presented in this infographic
from iThenticate.
Use of this service in licensed to MU faculty and staff who
are part of a faculty research team.
Students who are working as part of the faculty research team are also
eligible to use the service. For more
information, FAQs, and to request an account, please visit MU’s iThenticate
page, under Proposal Development Resources, on the OSPA website.