December 9, 2006

Plagiarists face clampdown : TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION

Phil Baty
More cases of academic fraud come to light as institutions embrace zero-tolerance culture, reports Phil Baty.>>>

December 6, 2006

Trolling the arXiv for plagiarism

John Timmer
In a subscription-only report on an upcoming conference presentation, Nature spills the beans on what may be our best handle yet on plagiarism in the world of academic science. Most research into this area has been limited by the inaccessibility of many of the peer-reviewed journals, which require subscription access. As such, it's hard to build a global picture of the literature. In physics and astronomy, however, many publications appear in the arXiv database, which typically hosts them in advance of publication.>>>

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