Publisher linking services provider CrossRef, US, has announced an agreement with iParadigms, LLC to launch the CrossCheck service, which helps verify the originality of scholarly content. Following a recent pilot, the CrossCheck service is scheduled to go live in June. iParadigms is a provider of web-based solutions to check documents for originality and plagiarism.
CrossRef is partnering with iParadigms to offer its members - which includes scholarly and professional publishers - the opportunity to verify the originality of works submitted for publication using the iThenticate service. The service checks against a vast database of proprietary as well as open web content. Until now, according to the company, there was no automated way to check submissions against previous publications because the published literature had not been indexed and 'text fingerprinted' for this purpose.
The CrossCheck database will include the full-text journals of leading academic publishers, and is expected to grow rapidly over the coming months as CrossRef member publishers sign up for the service. It will be available to all CrossRef members who opt to contribute their content to the database. To use the service, publishers will need to integrate the checking tool into their editorial processes and develop suitable policies and guidelines. CrossRef is working with iParadigms, member publishers, and editorial system software producers on appropriate technical information and guidelines for CrossCheck.
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