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(Revised: December 23, 2008) CrossCheck Winner of ALPSP's 2008 Award for Publishing Innovation   CrossRef's Executive Director Ed Pentz was presented with the ALPSP award for Publishing Innovation at the ALPSP International Conference Dinner on September 11, 2008. The CrossCheck service officially launched on June 19th, 2008, as announced in our recent press release and covered in such publications as the Chronicle of Higher Education, ISMTE EON and Fox Business. What is CrossCheck? CrossCheck is an initiative started by CrossRef to help its members actively engage in efforts to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Although there are several plagiarism detection tools already available, they are not well-suited to filtering academic content simply because they haven't had access to the relevant full-text literature to screen against. CrossCheck changes this by creating and continuously growing a database of current and archival scholarly literature. This database is one of two parts that make up the CrossCheck service. The second part is a tool to compare authored work against the content in the database and highlight matching or similar text for further editorial review.
Please sign up to join one of our regular web demos of the system by emailing crosscheck_info@crossref.org Date: Monday, December 15th, 2008 Date: Wednesday Jan 14th, 2009
How does it work? To participate in CrossCheck publishers must first allow their content to be indexed and included in the CrossCheck database. All CrossRef members are encouraged to contribute to the database regardless of whether they decide to check submissions, as participation will benefit the CrossCheck community and will help prevent other publishers from unknowingly re-publishing your content. Step two is to begin checking authored works against the database. This is done through a web-based tool by uploading a document and running a similarity check against the CrossCheck database, and optionally the wider internet. The system returns a set of results listing documents that share a significant degree of textual overlap with the target document. The results are presented in order of similarity with an indicator that shows the degree of overlap with the document being checked. This result set is called an "originality report" and this originality report must be analyzed by somebody with editorial expertise in order to detect instances of plagiarism. Finally, we would encourage all participating publishers to display the CrossCheck logo on their websites and in their published documents to show their participation and to help deter would-be plagiarists from copying your content. How do publishers join CrossCheck? To join CrossCheck you must first be a CrossRef member. If you are already a CrossRef member you can join by filling in an application form and signing a license agreement, and emailing both documents to crosscheck@iparadigms.com. Please keep in mind when reviewing these agreements that they have been carefully vetted by CrossRef staff and several member publishers. Although you have the option of negotiating the terms of the agreement with our technology partner iParadigms, we believe you will find the terms favourable and hope that further negotiations are not necessary. If you are interested in finding out more about CrossCheck before applying please email crosscheck_info@crossref.org and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have. You may also find the Frequently Asked Questions further down this page useful. What does it cost? CrossCheck fees are in two parts: a per-document checking fee and an annual administrative fee. Per-document checking fees are paid directly to iParadigms; these fees are significantly less than those charged by iParadigms outside of the CrossCheck initiative, and volume discounts also apply. The annual administrative fee is paid to CrossRef and is set at 20% of your CrossRef annual membership fee. CrossCheck Per-Document Checking Fees
* up to a maximum of 50 pages per document CrossCheck Annual Fees
Frequently Asked Questions Do I need to be a CrossRef member to join CrossCheck? Yes, the CrossCheck service is only available to members who are depositing DOIs with CrossRef. What technology are you using to provide this service? CrossRef has partnered with leading plagiarism detection systems vendor iParadigms to create the CrossCheck database and to use their iThenticate tool for checking documents against the database. As a CrossCheck member you will need to sign a license with iParadigms to use their system; this license has been fully reviewed and approved by CrossRef and several of its member publishers and should not require any additional negotiation. Why shouldn't I just work with iParadigms directly? There are a number of benefits available to CrossCheck members that you would not be able to take advantage of by working solely with iParadigms:
How will my content be indexed? Your content will be crawled in much the same way that a search engine would index your full text, but rather than crawling your entire site the CrossCheck crawler uses a site map of deposited DOIs to locate content and start crawling at your DOI landing page, or directly at the full text if you have registered "as-crawled" URLs with CrossRef. Upon arrival at the DOI landing page the crawler needs to be redirected to full text. Further information on how to do this can be found on the CrossCheck Indexing page. How do I check a document for possible plagiarism? To check a document for possible plagiarism you simply upload the document using the web-based iThenticate tool and choose whether to check it against just the CrossCheck database, or additionally iThenticate's database of other proprietary content and/or the open web. The system will then produce a "similarity report". This report shows the percent of the document that matches other content in the database, where that content comes from, and the matching content itself; information that a human can then use to make a judgement on whether there has in fact been a case of plagiarism. Uploading a document to iThenticate does not add the document to the CrossCheck database, and you can delete the document from the system upon completion of the similarity screening. An CrossCheck user manual is also available to download. What is the definition of a "document"? Documents submitted for checking are defined to be article or chapter length works of no more than 50 pages. (Note: documents submitted for checking do not get stored or included in the database and can be deleted after checking via the iThenticate interface). How does CrossCheck work with manuscript tracking systems? Manuscript tracking vendors are encouraged to integrate CrossCheck into their manuscript tracking systems in a way that is flexible enough for the publishers to use CrossCheck where they see fit in their editorial process. CrossRef is currently meeting with manuscript tracking vendors to discuss how to best integrate CrossCheck. A comprehensive API guide is available, or vendors can contact api-info@ithenticate.com
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