Google Answers Plagiarism? How to identify?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins () gmail com>
Date: June 28, 2005 1:11:47 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: george.sadowsky () attglobal net
Subject: Re: [IP] Plagiarism? How to identify?
Reply-To: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins () gmail com>


University instructors use tools such as Turnitin --
http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html -- to try to catch people
submitting term papers from commercial mills and underground sources.

Your request seems to be different.  You want to see if the paper in
question expropriates material from professional or industry
databases.  I don't think you're going to find a crawler that covers
such terrain -- not yet, anyhow.  Northern Light was the closest to
doing that, but they only managed to cover trade databases, but not
the stuff that Dialog or Lexis-Nexis would troll through.

If you seriously seek this sort of search, I suggest you go to Google
Answers, offer $50, and a research librarian somewhere will take up
the cause.  She or he will spend a couple of hours searching the
"real" online literature, and you'll have your answer.  Google Answers
is to professional research librarian skills as Ebay is to the model
railroad collection I just inherited.

/rich

On 6/28/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: George Sadowsky <george.sadowsky () attglobal net>
> Date: June 27, 2005 6:43:02 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Plagiarism? How to identify?
>
>
> Dave,
>
> I have an interesting situation that I think the combined resources
> of IP could help.
>
> I've just received a consultant's report on Virtual Private Networks
> that, based on previous experience, I believe has been by and large
> taken wholesale from another source, perhaps a book on the subject.
>
> I cannot find the source on the Web using Google (a technique that
> worked very well on a previous report).  This could possblly have
> been lifted from the ACM digital bookshelf or the IEEE equivalent,
> but there's no search tool for them.  Does anyone know of a
> "plagiarism server" that would help identify this piece or clear it?
> Alternatively, I'd be willing to send a sanitized copy of the report
> to any IPer who knows this literature well and is intrigued by the
> question.
>
> 'm sure that this question comes up from time to time, perhaps often,
> in a publications environment.  How have others handled this question?
>
> George Sadowsky
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