Someone (probably Paul) first wrote: > "The most serious limitation of turnitin.com is that it does not > check scientific references - that is journal articles (at least it > didn't use to).
Miguel replied: > Yes, but their capabilities are expanding. I plucked the paragraph > below from the Turnitin web site http://www.turnitin.com/static/about_us/whats_new.html: > "Best Search Available. Turnitin has expanded its search capabilities to include the articles from thousands of commercial publications. This includes all of the published material contained in ProQuest�'s ABI/Inform, full-text Periodical Abstracts, and Business Dateline. It also includes tens of thousands of books from some of the largest digital libraries available. This is a free service to new and existing Turnitin customers." I understand that the above feature was only added recently. > So Paul conceded:: > I see that it apparently does search through many of the kinds of > online sources my students are likely to plagiarize from, so I take > back my comment that it would be useless in my situation. > Not so fast, integrity-breath. There may be less there than you think. I don't know what ABI/Inform is, but "full-text Periodical Abstracts" sounds like a deliberately ambiguous way of saying "we search abstracts, not text". Stephen ___________________________________________________ Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm _______________________________________________ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
