iThenticate Guide (English) by UNIST Library

1. Professional Plagiarism Prevention
iThenticate Guide
UNIST LIBRARY
English version

2. Table of Contents
iThenticate? ........................................................................................................................................................ 1
1. iThenticate? – Article Similarity Checking Program...............................................................................................................1
2. iThenticate Database Content..........................................................................................................................................................1
How to Get an iThenticate Account.............................................................................................................. 2
1. Request an iThenticate Account.....................................................................................................................................................2
2. Notification of iThenticate Account and Temporary Password........................................................................................2
3. Log in and Reset Your Password ....................................................................................................................................................3
iTheicate Overview............................................................................................................................................ 4
1. Access the iThenticate.........................................................................................................................................................................4
2. iThenticate Interface.............................................................................................................................................................................4
How to use iThenticate.................................................................................................................................... 5
1. Submit a Document .............................................................................................................................................................................5
2. View Similarity Reports .......................................................................................................................................................................6
3. Excluding Specific Sources and Small Matches.......................................................................................................................8
Create Folders and Set Folder Options ...................................................................................................... 10
1. Create a Folder ....................................................................................................................................................................................10
2. Folder Options for Checking Similarity ....................................................................................................................................10
3. Share a Folder ......................................................................................................................................................................................12
iThenticate Training Sources (http://www.ithenticate.com/training)
[Training Videos]
 Getting Started
 Creating and Organizing Folders
 Setting your Preferences
 Text-Only Similarity Reports
 Sharing Results
[Manuals]
 iThenticate Plagiarism Software User Manual
 iThenticate Document Viewer Similarity Report Guide

3. 1
iThenticate?
1. iThenticate? – Article Similarity Checking Program
 iThenticate is a tool to compare authored work against the content in the database and highlight
matching or similar text for further editorial review.
 iThenticate is a part of CrossCheck which is an initiative started by CrossRef to help its members actively
engage in efforts to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.
 About 530 societies and publishers are using this program to detect plagiarism in editing process.
CrossCheck: http://crossref.org/crosscheck/
 CrossCheck members: http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck_members.html
2. iThenticate Database Content
<STM Publishers> <Content Partners> <Internet>
42 Million 93 Million 52 Billion
Journal articles, conference
proceedings and books via
CrossCheck powered by
iThenticate from 590+ leading
scientific, technical and medical
(STM) publishers, including:
 American Chemical Society
 American Institute of Physics
 American Physical Society
 Elsevier
 IEEE
 Institute of Physics
 Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins
 Nature Publishing
 Ovid
 Oxford University Press
 Sage Publications
 Springer
 Taylor & Francis
 Wiley Blackwell
Online and offline subscription
content and research titles from
30 leading aggregators,
databases and content providers,
including:
 ABC CLIO
 Cengage Learning
 EBSCOHost
 Emerald Journals
 Gale: 86m articles
 Pearson, McGraw-Hill and
Wiley: 2,000+ academic
textbooks
 ProQuest: 300,000+ theses
and dissertations
 PubMed/MedLine: 1.4m
abstracts and citations;
medical resources
 SAGE Reference: 160+
encyclopedia titles
iThenticate's proprietary Internet
crawler is comparable to major
search engines. Archived back
nearly a decade, iThenticate
currently crawls 10 million web
pages per day.
 More information: http://www.ithenticate.com/content
 Search Scholarly Journals in iThenticate: iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) > Content > Search Journals

4. 2
How to Get an iThenticate Account
1. Request an iThenticate Account
 Only UNIST professors can use iThenticate
because this program has limitation of number
of checking documents.
* Limitation: 1,000 document per 1 year,
* Undergraduate and graduate students can
use ‘turn it in’.
 UNIST professors need to submit the
application form to get an iThenticate account.
 Application for iThenticate Account (Online)
: Application for iThenticate Account
(https://goo.gl/f6txfj)
2. Notification of iThenticate Account and Temporary Password
 After submitting the application,
the administrator will send an e-
mail to notify the account and
temporary password.
 Contact Info.
: Librarian Kwon, Yulee
(Phone) 052-217-1405
(e-Mail) kyl7539@unist.ac.kr

5. 3
3. Log in and Reset Your Password
① Access the iThenticate
(www.ithenticate.com)
② Click the ‘Login’ button
③ Enter your UNIST e-Mail
address and temporary
password
④ Check the ‘iThenticate
Terms and Conditions’
⑤ Reset your password

6. 4
iTheicate Overview
1. Access the iThenticate
 iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) > Login
2. iThenticate Interface
Folders for
categorizing your
documents
Your document list
To check the result click the similarity index
icon under the report column
Create new folders
Submit a document
for checking

7. 5
How to use iThenticate
1. Submit a Document
 How to: Go to ‘Submit a Document’ menu > Select a submission method > Submit a file > Upload
 Submission methods
Upload a File
A single file submission.
The file may not exceed 400 pages and size may not exceed 40 MB.
File types: MS Word, Text, PostScript, PDF, HTML, Word Perfect WPD,
OpenOffice ODT, RTF, Hangul HWP
Zip File Upload
Submit a standard zip file containing multiple documents. May contain up to
100MB or 1,000 files. Zip file uploads of significant size may require additional
time to complete.
Multiple File Upload Drag & Drop upload (Java Plug-in is needed)
Cut & Paste Submission of text copied and pasted into the submission box.

8. 6
2. View Similarity Reports
 Check the result: Click the similarity index icon under the report column.
 Similarity Report
① Similarity (%)
② Matching sources
③ Original source
④ Change the report mode to ‘text-only report’ mode
⑤ Download a PDF version of a similarity report
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9. 7
 Types of similarity reports
① PDF Report
② Text-Only Report – Similarity Report ③ Text-Only Report – Content Tracking
④ Text-Only Report - Summary Report ⑤Text-Only Report – Largest Matches

10. 8
3. Excluding Specific Sources and Small Matches
 Exclude Sources: If the user determines a matched source is not needed, the user remove the match to
recalculate the similarity.
① Similarity report > All Sources > Exclude Sources
② Select the sources by clicking in the check box > Exclude

11. 9
 Filters & Settings: It is available to exclude quotes, bibliography and small matches by setting ‘filters &
settings’ option to recalculate the similarity.
① Similarity report > Filters & Settings > Check options > Apply Changes
② Filter options
※ Filter options can be applied to each folders. Refer to folder options on p.10.

12. 10
Create Folders and Set Folder Options
Creating folders and folder groups will help a user organize their documents. And a user can set folder options to
check and calculate similarity.
1. Create a Folder
 Types of folders: Folder Group / Folder
2. Folder Options for Checking Similarity
Exclude quotes Exclude quotes from comparison
Exclude bibliography Exclude bibliography from comparison
Exclude Phases Exclude added phases from documents
※ How to add phrases: Folder > Settings > Phrase Exclusions
Exclude Small Matches Exclude match instances from the Similarity Report.
Exclude Small Sources Exclude sources from the Similarity Report.
Exclude Sections Exclude the Abstract and Methods and Materials sections from
Similarity Reports.
Limit searches to repositories Choose which collections to search
• CrossCheck - research articles, books, and conference proceedings
provided by the worlds scientific, technical and medical publishers
• Internet - archived and live publicly available internet pages
• Publications - third party periodical, journal, and publication
content including many major professional journals, periodicals, and
business publications
Create new folder
Folder options

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 Report Filters
 Phrase Exclusions
3. Share a Folder
 A user can share a selected folder
with other iThenticate users
 If a user need this function, please
contact the administrator.
 How to share: Folder > Sharing
> Select a registered iThenticate user

16. iThenticate Guide
Published in July 2015
Questions? Yulee Kwon
(052-217-1405, kyl7539@unist.ac.kr)
UNIST Library (http://library.unist.ac.kr)