Changing available search repositories

Select the Search Repositories that users can choose to compare their submission against by selecting the different checkboxes. Your selections will adjust the available search repositories in your users' account settings:

Internet

Turnitin's 'web crawler' actively archives websites and holds over 90+ billion current and removed web pages in our database.

Publications

Turnitin partners with leading content publishers to create a robust collection of over 170 million articles from library databases, textbook publishers, digital reference collections, subscription-based publications, and books. Theses and disserations via ProQuest are also included for iThenticate and Crossref Similarity Check users.

Crossref & Crossref Posted Content

The Crossref repository is a collection of published scholarly works and the Crossref Posted Content collection of scholarly works that have been submitted but not yet published. Both available to search submissions against through our exclusive partnership with Crossref.

Submitted Works

This is a collection of the works that have been previously submitted to the account and can be used as comparison sources.

As a iThenticate customer, any content you submit to iThenticate will not be indexed into a publicly searchable repository.

Choosing submission indexing options

Indexing is the process of storing a file within our repository. This process happens during the submission of a file.

1. Select Settings from the sidebar.
2. Select the iThenticate Web tab and scroll down to Submission Indexing.

   

3. Any indexed submissions will be available for comparison in Similarity Reports. You have three options you can select:

   • Index all submissions: All submissions will be indexed in the relevant repository and will be available for comparison in Similarity Reports by other users within your organization. Depending on your license type, choosing this setting will also add submissions from your institution to the submitted works repository, which allows users outside of your organization to check for similarity among their submissions and yours.

   • Allow users to choose: At upload, users can opt to index their submission to the account's repository and, depending on your organization’s license, to the submitted works repository as well. and make it available for comparison in Similarity Reports by other users within your organization.

   • Don't index any submissions: No submissions will be indexed to any repository, and therefore the user submissions will not be available for comparison in Similarity Reports.

As an administrator, you are able to change the default state of the source text visibility from the Administrator Account Settings page. Users can be allowed to view the full text of a matching source or none at all.

1. Navigate to the Settings Page, using the side navigation bar.
2. From the Source Text Visibility option, decide what you'd like users on your account to view.
   • Show full text - Users from your account will see the full text of the matching file.
   • Don't show any text - Users will see a match, but won't see any of the matching file's text.

   

   Source text visibility is only available when the 'Submitted works' search repository has been selected.

Showing paper match details

If iThenticate finds matching text from a paper within your organization's private repository, this option will allow users to view the available details of this match.

1. Select Settings from the sidebar.
2. From the Paper Match Details heading, choose the radio button that fits with your organization.
   1. Selecting Show paper match details will enable it for all users in your organization.
   2. Don't show paper match details is the default setting.
3. Use the Save button to confirm any changes you've made.

How does it work?

User A uploads a document. It goes into your organization's private repository. One year later, User B uploads a document. iThenticate scans this submission and finds that 20% of the text on User B's submission is identical to User A's submission.

When Show paper match details is enabled, any matches will appear in the source overview panel as 'Submitted works'. By default the source will be open on the Source view. This shows an excerpt of the submission with the matching text highlighted. If available, the Details view will show the following information:

• The name of the user who submitted the manuscript
• The date the file was uploaded
• The manuscript title

Select View Full Text to see the entire submission with the matching text highlighted.