Plagiarism

SDTM Library uses plagiarism prevention tool i.e Turnitin: Originality Checking & Plagiarism Prevention, a web-based solution that lets educators and their students check written work for improper citation or misappropriated content. All the Theses / Dissertations and Assignments are subjected to plagirism check, as per the decision of faculty concerned.

STUDENTS

Accessing Plagiarism Detection Software Turnitin by Students:

  • Students can access Turnitin within TISSOL Platform. Please login to your TISSOL and then navigate to the Course.

  • Here the Course teacher would have created an Assignment . Beneath every assignment in TISSOL , there will be “ Similarity Check Turnitin” link .

  • If you do not find Turnitin link there, then please request your course teacher to add the same. Its a simple task to add Turnitin as an activity in TISSOL.

  • You will be able to submit and check similarity level first. If satisfied, then you can make your final submission of assignment.

  • You can resubmit and check similarity upto 3 times. After 3 attempts, the next report will be generated only after 24 hour gap.

  • Please view Step-by-Step User Manual for Students-Students can be downloaded here.

FACULTY

a) Plagiarism Check Through your TISSOL Account

  • As Course teacher, you will be able to check the similarity in student submissions within TISSOL. The procedure to include Turnitin in your Course on TISSOL is very simple.

  • Your students will be able to submit and see their similarity reports themselves. They can also revise their assignment and resubmit the same until the due date.

  • Faculty will be able to see both Plagiarism as well as AI text detection percentages in TISSOL submissions. However, students in their TISSOL account, will get to see only Plagiarism percentage. AI detection percentage is visible only to faculty.

  • Please refer the easy to follow “Faculty Manual for Turnitin use in TISSOL” can be downloaded here.

b) Plagiarism Check Through Your Turnitin InstructorAccount. (Quick Submit Module)

  • Faculty can check plagiarism for their documents directly on Turnitin Quick Submit Module.

  • Only once in the beginning, Faculty needs to use “reset password” option on Turnitin Website to get direct access to their Account. Once done, then they can easily login to their Turnitin Instructor account to use Quick Submit module.

  • Please refer the Faculty Manual for Direct Access to Turnitin Instructor Quick Submit Module- Download click here

Plagiarism Check @ Library Service Points

  • Students are encouraged to check their assignments for plagiarism in TISSOL. However, if you still want to get your assignment checked through library, then you are required to submit your assignment to the following campus specific email ids. Student must adhere to following instructions , otherwise the request will not be serviced.

  1. Always submit assignment file using only official TISS email id and NOT any other ids.

  2. Assign proper name (Name or Roll No) to your file.

  3. Do not submit multiple assignments. Please send seperate email for each document.

  4. Each assignment must be a SINGLE document (PDF or Word). Do not send assignment in parts, as it will not indicate correct percentage of plagiarism/similarity.

  5. You will receive your report as soon as possible, depending upon the prevailing work load. Please DO NO resubmit your assignment within 8 hours of your submission.

  6. Campus Specific Email Ids for Submission:

         MUMBAI CAMPUS

          Email: turnitin-mumbai@tiss.ac.in

         TULJAPUR CAMPUS
          Email: turnitin-tuljapur@tiss.ac.in

         GUWAHATI CAMPUS
          Email: turnitin-guwahati@tiss.ac.in

         HYDERABAD CAMPUS
          Email: turnitin-hyderabad@tiss.ac.in

Additionally, research scholars can directly access the Drillbit Plagiarism Detection Tool, recommended by INFLIBNET (Government of India), by contacting the INFLIBNET Centre staff at the Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library.

For further assistance, please contact Inflibnet Team on 2nd Floor Library, Mumbai cmpus or call on 022-25525276/ 25525273 or write to inflibnet@tiss.ac.in