For some researchers, reading a familiar passage in a scholarly or professional journal may not be a case of deja vu. It could be a case of plagiarism. The incidences of plagiarism in scholarly or professional literature are frequent enough to cause publishers some concern, and publishers are now finding new ways to protect their authors and their scientific reputations. One such tool,called Crosscheck, is a new creation from CrossRef that's designed to spot plagiarism at a variety of critical points in the publishing process."Some of CrossRef's publisher members report a sharp increase in plagiarism in recent years," said Amy Brand, director of business and product development at CrossRef, "obviously as a result of how easy it is to copy parts or whole sections of text that is accessed online." Although no current statistics are available, the decision to move ahead with Crosscheck was due to membership demand, she said.
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