Abstract
Two pilot studies led to the adoption of the JISC Plagiarism Detection Software,
TurnitinUK, in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Leicester.
Successful implementation relied on well established systems and procedures for
dealing with plagiarism. The rate of detection of plagiarism increased with the initial
introduction of automatic scanning, though recent data suggest that the incidence of
plagiarism is now in decline. Our results on the rates of plagiarism detected over the
last three academic years suggest that the JISC PDS is an effective means of both
detecting and deterring plagiarism. However, self-plagiarism by students now
appears to be occurring in a significant number of cases and offers a new challenge
to our policies and teaching.
This paper was submitted to the International Integrity & Plagiarism Conference which ran between 2004-2014. The paper was peer reviewed by an independent editorial board and features in the conference proceedings.