For OJS/OMP/OPS 3.x
This plugin permits automatic submission of uploaded manuscripts to the iThenticate service for plagiarism checking.
- You need an account of ithenticate.com (costs involved)
- paid via Crossref Similarity Check
- or, paid directly to iThenticate
- Install the plugin via the Plugin Gallery in the Dashboard
- Configure the plugin (see below)
- Enable the plugin via config.inc.php or in a specific journal/press/preprint context
- Configure the plugin with the username and password you get from ithenticate.com
- The author logs in and makes a submission
- The submission files will be sent to iThenticate in Step 4 of the submission process
- The Editor logs in to ithenticate.com to see the submission
- The submission will be found in a folder named by the Submission ID, under a Group named by the journal/press/preprint context
- Click to see the report
Watch the demo to know more about the features of iThenticate.
You may set the credentials in config.inc.php, or you may set the credentials per-journal in the plugin settings. If credentials are present in config.inc.php, they will override those entered in the plugin settings form and will automatically enable the plugin.
The config.inc.php settings format is:
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; iThenticate Plugin Settings ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[ithenticate]
; Credentials can be set by context : specify journal path
; The username to access the API (usually an email address)
;username[MyJournal_path] = "[email protected]"
; The password to access the API
;password[MyJournal_path] = "password"
; default credentials
; The username to access the API (usually an email address)
;username = "[email protected]"
; The password to access the API
;password = "password"
If you have an entry in this section for ithenticate = On from an earlier version, you can remove it.