BMJ  2008;336:797 (12 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39546.337963.DB

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Plagiarism detection service to be launched in June

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Editors of scientific journals will soon have a new weapon at their disposal in the fight against research misconduct, delegates at the annual meeting of the Committee on Publication Ethics, held in London last week, were told.

Scheduled for launch in June, researchers and editorial staff will be able to access CrossCheck, a plagiarism detection service, offered by the independent publishers’ membership association CrossRef.

CrossRef is a collaborative reference linking service that functions as a sort of digital switchboard for articles from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers. Each item has a unique digital object identifier (DOI).

Geoffrey Bilder, director of strategic initiatives at CrossRef, said that the system contains 30 million DOIs for articles, theses, and conference proceedings, 19 000 journals, and material dating back to the 1600s.

Access allows users from one publisher to link citations and references to the primary source material of another publisher, to check . . . [Full text of this article]

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Accessible to authors ?

Jan Stanek
bmj.com, 10 Apr 2008 [Full text]

Just one step forwards

Trevor Lane
bmj.com, 11 Apr 2008 [Full text]

Re: Accessible to authors ?

Amy E. Brand
bmj.com, 18 Apr 2008 [Full text]