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Turnitin - Report for PhD Thesis

Dear Turnitin,

Please clarify the following case.

Suppose a student checks his/ her thesis and finds the report statistics as 9%. He gets the degree. Lets us assume the fellow did not published any thing further from that thesis and the thesis is not archived by Turnitin repository server. After 5 years if somebody copies a chapter from that thesis what will happen.

My Question is will that be tracked or traced by Turnitin (Y/N) and how?

Thanking you

Samrat Guha Roy

IIT Kharagpur, WB, India

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    • Customer Engagement Specialist, Turnitin
    • Gill_Rowell
    • 5 yrs ago
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    samrat guha roy  Thank you for your question. If I am correct in understanding you, in this situation you have chosen not to add this paper to the Turnitin repository, therefore there will be no way of tracking any possible content which is taken and used in another piece of work by another author or student. Therefore in order to protect the intellectual property of your work I would encourage you to add your work to Turnitin database.

    Maybe other forum users can share their experiences on the pros and cons of adding materials to the Turnitin database

      • samrat_guha_roy
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Gill Rowell Gill Rowell Very rightly said.

      So we can add to turnitin repository, but again it will have a problem that if the student himself /herself wants to publish the work in a journal then it will again show some percentage of copy. when it will be checked in turnitin by the publisher.

      With reference to this I am having a query do turnitin indexes the Institutional Repository. Like digital repository created using software's like DSpace, Eprint or Greenstone.

      Thank You

      samrat 

      • Customer Engagement Specialist, Turnitin
      • Gill_Rowell
      • 5 yrs ago
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      samrat guha roy I think as long as the student acknowledges that this work has been submitted to Turnitin at his institution as part of his thesis then the publisher will be able to discount this match. 

      We have a comprehensive database of scholarly content, which you can refer to here.

    • Aljoriz_M_Dublin
    • 5 yrs ago
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    There are ethical ways of copying word by word like presenting it as a block quotation.  

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