iThenticate

iThenticate is a service provided by Turnitin to assist academic authors to scan your written work such as journal articles or conference papers for originality to avoid the pitfall of plagiarism when preparing items for publication. It allows researchers to easily upload and scan documents, manuscripts, research and other professional works into iThenticate. It is NOT intended for classroom and assignment use and is different from the Turnitin account provided to students.

Available to:

Staff (Academic Staff), Students (for Research Postgraduate and Taught Postgraduate students only)

Service Hours:

7x24

 

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iThenticate vs Turnitin

iThenticate does not save a copy of any file to a database of sources (unlike Turnitin, similar software used in undergraduate teaching). It protects intellectual property while allowing researchers to identify errors in citation and attribution.

 

Turnitin has been made specifically for classroom use and is intended for reviewing students' assignments.  At Lingnan University, Turnitin has been integrated with Moodle, instructors must set up classes and Turnitin assignments for student submissions on Moodle.

 

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Who Can Access?

ITSC has subscribed iThenticate software for detection of plagiarism for academic staff and postgraduate students to assist you with checking scholarly research outputs. To apply, please submit the following request form to ITSC.

• For Academic Staff: iThenticate Account for Turnitin (Academic Staff)
• For Postgraudate Students: iThenticate Account for Turnitin (Postgraduate students)

 

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How to Access?

 Upon account activation, you may log in to iThenticate 2.0 via the following link: 

https://lingnanithenticate.turnitin.com

 

 

 

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Guide to Activate iThenticate Account

Step 1: Request iThenticate Account via ITSC/Library Helpdesk.

 

Step 2: A confirmation email will be sent to you once your account has been created. Please click the link in that email to activate your account.

 

Note: This link will expire after 30 days. Once it has expired, please submit a new request to obtain access again.

 

 

 

Step 3: Please create your account and set your password.
 

 

Step 4: You may now begin to use the iThenticate service.

 

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Guide to Upload Documents to iThenticate

Step 1: Log in to iThenticate with your credentials. Click on Upload a File on the right.

 

Step 2: Provide the document information, click Upload to submit the document.

 

 

Step 3: Monitor the progress of your upload in the upload progress box at the bottom of the sidebar.

 

 

Step 4: A report with percentage will be shown under the Report column. Click on the percentage to open up the report.

 

Step 5: The report containing the document's Match Overview result with items highlighted based on the matched sources will be shown.

 

The color of the report icon indicates the submission’s similarity score, based on the amount of matching text found. The percentage range is 0% to 100%. The colors for similarity ranges are:

	Green: 0% matching text
	Blue: 1-24% matching text
	Yellow: 25-49% matching text
	Orange: 50-74% matching text
	Red: 75-100% matching text

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Related Articles:

Provided by iThenticate

• User Guide for iThenticate 2.0

• Using iThenticate 2.0 | Onboarding Video

• Uploading a file to generate a Similarity Report

   

 

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