iThenticate

The University of Brescia has subscribed to a licence for access to iThenticate, a plagiarism detection software provided by Turnitin (by iParadigms), which allows the originality of written texts produced for academic research (articles, papers, book chapters, degree and doctorate theses etc.) to be checked.

In our University, the use of iThenticate is limited to professors, researchers, research fellows, PhD students, postgraduate students and other collaborators. By requesting access to the service, all those concerned can submit their works, of which they are authors or co-authors, to an originality check (in the latter case, it is recommended to obtain the consent of the other co-authors before making the check).

Professors can also use iThenticate to check the degree theses they are supervising, with the aim of teaching students the correct use of bibliographic sources. For this to be possible, graduating students must formally express their consent when they submit the title of the thesis online.
N.B. Access to iThenticate for checking degree theses is limited to professors and their collaborators: students cannot use the service to check their own work independently.

To access iThenticate, users must request the creation of an account by writing to [email protected], then complete the personal registration by following the instructions received. All users must use their institutional e-mail address, which will be adopted as username.

Once users have logged in for the first time, they can change the temporary password, set the personal configurations and upload the documents for which the software will carry out originality checks.

The result of the analysis is a similarity report, which highlights the parts of the text that correspond or are similar to documents found in iThenticate's vast comparison database and expresses (as a percentage value) the similarity rate detected.

The reports produced are accessible only to the user who generated them; however, users can share them by sending them via e-mail or by opening their document collections to other users.