iThenticate

CDU HDR students and their Principal Supervisors should have access to iThenticate via the CDU license. Eligible users are sent their login details via email. For students this will have been sent to your student email which is based on your student number (e.g., if your number is 107107, your email is s107101@students.cdu.edu.au). Staff login details are sent to their CDU staff email address.

To login,  visit Plagiarism Detection Software | iThenticate and select the login in button on the top right hand side of the page and then enter your login details.

If you cannot locate your login information, your check your junk mail folder. If you still cannot find your login details try the following:

1. Visit Plagiarism Detection Software | iThenticate
2. Choose "Forget Password."
3. Enter your email address:
   1. HDR students - enter your student email based on your student number (e.g., if your number is 107107, your email is s107101@students.cdu.edu.au).
   2. Principal Supervisors enter your CDU email address
4. Click submit.

If you have further problems logging in, please send the following to research.degrees@cdu.edu.au 

• a screen shot/s of the login screen and any error message/s 
• the email address that you are using to log in 

• Once logged in locate the "my folders" and "my documents"

• On the right-hand side of the page, choose “Upload a File”:

• Once the file has uploaded it will appear in your “My documents” list:

• Click on the % shown in the “report” column against the relevant document to view the similarity report

   

Report Settings

To exclude references, select the document report from your documents then select the filter icon (highlighted in yellow below) and tick “exclude bibliography”. The apply changes.

Viewing the Report

See this link for more info on viewing the similarity report: The Document Viewer

Interpreting the Report

“It is perfectly natural for a submission to match against sources in the database. If the submission has used quotes and has referenced correctly, there will be instances where there will be a match. The similarity score simply makes the user aware of any problem areas in the submission; iThenticate should be used as part of a larger process, in order to determine if the match is or is not acceptable.”

 The student and supervisor should read the report carefully and determine if any of the similarities picked up need to be addressed or not.

Downloading the Report

From Downloading a PDF Version of a Similarity Report:

“The Similarity Report can be downloaded in a print-friendly PDF

To download a report, select the print icon at the bottom left of the Document Viewer. This will prepare a readable PDF version of the report. When downloading a report, the downloaded version created is based on the current view of the Similarity Report. For example, selecting the download icon while using the default Match Overview will create a PDF with color-coded highlights.” 

See the guides for more information The Similarity Report (turnitin.com)