Emerald is proud to announce its recent partnership with iParadigms, LLC, developers of the Turnitin plagiarism detection [software]...The Turnitin service has been expanded to include Emerald content since 25 September. This innovative move reinforces Emerald’s proactive stance on plagiarism....
Malik AboRashid, Senior Director of Business Development, from iParadigms says, “This is the first agreement we have signed with a primary academic journal publisher. This ‘industry first’ confirms Emerald’s commitment to supporting integrity in scholarship and their position as a publisher of high quality research....”
Comment. Emerald will make its published articles available to Turnitin. (It's unclear whether Turnitin will pay anything for them.) If other publishers follow suit, then Turnitin will slowly develop an alternative copy of the research corpus. It won't be accessible to the public, but it will be available for processing by Turnitin and its customers. Note that this is just what Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other search engines are seeking. I have no beef with publishers who strike deals with Turnitin, even if they don't have author consent. (Published articles, OA or non-OA, have always been susceptible to various forms of plagiarism detection.) But any publisher willing to make its corpus available for Turnitin indexing should certainly make it available for search indexing as well. Otherwise the signal is: we're willing to take an extra step to punish the misuse of our literature but not to promote the use of it.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/07/2006 12:59:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
