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Google Answers Plagiarism? How to identify?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:44:53 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins () gmail com> Date: June 28, 2005 1:11:47 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: george.sadowsky () attglobal net Subject: Re: [IP] Plagiarism? How to identify? Reply-To: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins () gmail com> University instructors use tools such as Turnitin -- http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html -- to try to catch people submitting term papers from commercial mills and underground sources. Your request seems to be different. You want to see if the paper in question expropriates material from professional or industry databases. I don't think you're going to find a crawler that covers such terrain -- not yet, anyhow. Northern Light was the closest to doing that, but they only managed to cover trade databases, but not the stuff that Dialog or Lexis-Nexis would troll through. If you seriously seek this sort of search, I suggest you go to Google Answers, offer $50, and a research librarian somewhere will take up the cause. She or he will spend a couple of hours searching the "real" online literature, and you'll have your answer. Google Answers is to professional research librarian skills as Ebay is to the model railroad collection I just inherited. /rich On 6/28/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: George Sadowsky <george.sadowsky () attglobal net> Date: June 27, 2005 6:43:02 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Plagiarism? How to identify? Dave, I have an interesting situation that I think the combined resources of IP could help. I've just received a consultant's report on Virtual Private Networks that, based on previous experience, I believe has been by and large taken wholesale from another source, perhaps a book on the subject. I cannot find the source on the Web using Google (a technique that worked very well on a previous report). This could possblly have been lifted from the ACM digital bookshelf or the IEEE equivalent, but there's no search tool for them. Does anyone know of a "plagiarism server" that would help identify this piece or clear it? Alternatively, I'd be willing to send a sanitized copy of the report to any IPer who knows this literature well and is intrigued by the question. 'm sure that this question comes up from time to time, perhaps often, in a publications environment. How have others handled this question? George Sadowsky -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George Sadowsky george.sadowsky () attglobal net 64 Sweet Briar Road http://www.georgesadowsky.com/ Stamford, CT 06905-1514 GSM mobile: +1.202.415.1933 tel: +1.203.329.3288 CDMA mobile: +1.203.219.8250 Voice mail and fax: +1.203.547.6020 SKYPE: sadowsky ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as galler () umich edu To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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