more on Academics thrash out open access details

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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there are a number of commercial tools as well that do this

Scott

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Dave, Kelley,

> I support this in principle, but as all of us in higher education
> experience firsthand, plagiarism is rampant. And, as The Chronicle of
> Higher Education reported not too long ago, it happens far too often
> _among_ professionals. I wonder what the ramifications might be on that
> front? Uni administrations aren't likely to care: they want numbers so they
> can measure output. I'm from a number-crunching profession myself, but...!!

Regarding plagiarism, I had an interesting discussion with Scott Bradner
who teaches at Harvard.  He had built some tools that took portions of a
students paper and did a google search.  It was easy to detect plagiarism
if it came from online sources.

It may be that making academic papers available on the internet will reduce
the amount of plagiarism because it will be easier to detect it.

Bob


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