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turnitin

Turnitin - SimCheck is the plagiarism detection software used at the University of Twente.

Please check the following link for more information and access: https://www.utwente.nl/en/educational-systems/about-the-applications/plagiarism-check/

PLAGIARISM or SIMILARITY

Systems like Turnitin check for text similarity, the final judgment, if plagiarism has been committed, is to researchers supervising students.

In the following situations we talk about plagiarism: 
* Submitting past work 
* Paraphrasing without acknowledgment
* Summarizing without acknowledgment 
* 'Copy' and 'paste' another person's work in your own work without acknowledgment

Plagiarism is not allowed in scientific communication.

For more general information on publication ethics, see http://www.publicationethics.org/