Test of Plagiarism Detection Software

I am currently redoing my E-Learning-Unit on plagiarism, "Fremde Federn Finden" (in German). As part of the work I am repeating the test that I conducted on plagiarism detection software in 2004. Then I used 10 papers that I wrote myself with a known amount of plagiarism / originality to see how well the software measured up. It was not a pretty sight - often flipping a coin was just as effective.

For the repeat of the experiment I have 10 more papers and will be conducting tests over the summer of the following products from various countries:

• CopyCatch Investigator - UK - http://www.copycatchgold.com/index.html
• Doc Cop - Australian - http://www.doccop.com/
• Docoloc - German - http://www.docoloc.de/
• Ephorus - Dutch - http://www.ephorus.nl/
  
• Eve2 - Unknown, no address given - http://www.canexus.com/
• MyDropBox/ SafeAssignment - English - http://www.mydropbox.com/
• Plagiarism Finder - German - http://www.plagiarism-finder.de
• StrikePlagiarism - Polish - http://strikeplagiarism.com/
• TextGuard - German - http://www.TextGuard.de
• turnitin - USA - http://turnitin.com/static/index.html (iThenticate seems to be the same software but targeted to businesses and not schools - http://www.ithenticate.com/static/home.html)
• Urkund - Swedish - http://www.urkund.com/

If any of my readers know of any other software, please let me know! If you are a software producer of plagiarism detection software, please contact me so that I can include you in the test.

The results will be published online in September 2007.