12 January 2021
StrikePlagiarism.com has included a new feature - translation plagiarism search, which allows you to translate texts of any size into more than 100 languages and find similarities in translation both on the Internet and within our database.
09 November 2021
From now on, our system is also integrated with LMS Canvas and Brightspace via LTI 1.3. Register here to get a trial or contact us by clicking here to get more information.
01 June 2022
The StrikePlagiarism.com system was selected based on an international tender held at the end of 2021 by the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria as the best anti-plagiarism system. The contract is signed for three years and provides all universities in Bulgaria with free access to checking student and scientific papers for plagiarism in an unlimited number, as well as support for integration with LMS. Our company is also responsible for implementation of sustainable antiplagiarism procedures and conducting the training sessions for the educators in evaluation methodology.
15 July 2022
Plagiat.pl opened its office in Bulgaria. From now on, StrikePlagiarism.com has become even closer to Bulgarian customers by providing technical support from Sofia in Bulgarian. One of the main goals of the company is to customize the system for the needs and academic environment of a market where we operate.
3 August 2022
LATAM and the Philippines universities are extending cooperation with EU based StrikePlagiarism.com. Plagiat.pl representatives in the regions became close to the educators. More than 2 million students in this region will get access to StrikePlagiarism.com in 2022-2023. We are happy to enhance academic relationship and promote best practices between Europe and LATAM as well as the Philippines.
13 September 2022
Our team continues to implement the terms of the agreement with the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria. Over the past 5 months, several thousand university teachers have taken part in our trainings. The main topic of the trainings is the assessment of scientific and student papers for plagiarism. We see a great interest of teachers in expanding knowledge about plagiarism and prevention practices.
7 November 2022
In September our company celebrates 20th anniversary! The first 10 years of the existence of our company were a very difficult period, when the concept of plagiarism was not taken seriously in the world. It has taken our team many years, effort and hard work to change the attitude towards academic plagiarism, to help universities implement new procedures and processes to prevent plagiarism in student papers. After 20 years of hard work, we see that our efforts was not in vain. During this time, several generations of young people with zero tolerance for plagiarism have been raised. We are very grateful to everyone who believes in the idea of combat against plagiarism and in the concept of academic integrity!
23 March 2023
Almost all academic institutions took part in a conference sharing their worries and experience in the prevention of academic plagiarism. The hottest subjects, for sure, were disciplinary procedures and ChatGPT as well as its negative impact.
The Deputy Minister of MoES of Bulgaria Mrs. Chavdarova shared the importance to implement procedures and a code of ethics at the universities, as it seems like some universities still face a lack of experience and doesn't know what disciplinary actions shall be taken in case of plagiarism occurs in the diploma or PhD thesis. Bulgarian law doesn't specify disciplinary actions and doesn't impose sanctions for plagiarism in such cases, however, it still doesn't mean that universities are having their hands tied to use international practices. There is a general understanding of using the system as a control tool. Apparently, most of them don't look at the problem from the wider perspective of the development of student's skills, using antiplagiarism system to show them mistakes and prevent the development of a copy-paste skill.
An important subject was ChatGPT as it seems like a terra incognita for an academic world, hard to react adequately to the tool which is constantly developing and extending its abilities. However, the devil is not as frightening as you make him out to be. ChatGPT is a tool just like google search, open-source databases, translation tools - can be used for good and for bad. ChatGPT soon will not be only an advanced search tool but, honestly, it's still a great research tool. In Russia, students are defending diploma theses written by ChatGPT, because nobody reads them while the skills and knowledge gained at those universities are not welcome in the labor market. Universities in Bulgaria shall develop recommendations for the accurate use of the ChatGPT just like it is done by many universities around the globe, for example, Kozminski university. Let's not forget that text written by ChatGPT has no copyright according to the management of the company, so you cannot credit text to the ChaGPT.
The good news is that according to the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Albena Chavdarova - the Academic Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science is currently examining about 20 cases of plagiarism!
A great example of sustainable procedures implemented at the university to prevent academic plagiarism both among teachers and students was shared by Mrs. Lyubka Aleksieva (Sofia University), Mrs. Irena Vasilyeva (New Bulgarian University), and Mrs. Vanya Grashkina from the National Center of Information and Documentation (PhD repository).
Special thanks for organizing this conference to the Minister of Education and Science of Bulgaria Mr. Sasha Penov, Deputy Minister Mrs. Chandarova and Mrs. Boicheva as well as Rector of Sofia University of Mining and Geology Prof. Luben Totev and His Excellency the Ambassador of Poland in Bulgaria Mr. Szymanski and ALL Plagiat.pl team from Warsaw, Romania and Bulgaria.
15 February 2023
Our local team in Columbia organizes training for academic staff to teach how to use the antiplagiarism system and evaluate papers for plagiarism. Widely use of Feedback system that allows teacher to leave comments and contribute student in development of analytical skills increased demand in trainings and consulting of educators. Teachers are frequently asking questions how to evaluate thesis, what threshold values we need to use, how to identify self-plagiarism etc. All those questions are critically important to create just, effective and trusting relationship at the academic process. We conduct both instructor-led training with hands-on workshops as well as webinars.
23 December 2020
New report was presented by StrikePlagiarism.com in January 2021. The report has a unique combination of the best practices and a feedback system assisting educators and individuals to track lack of quote and self-citation at the text, compare text and source side by side, identifying authorship of the analyzed text, add and display comments as well as configure self-citation in a very convenient mode. Follow us in YouTube to know more about our technologies.
03 October 2020
StrikePlagiarism.com has introduced a new SmartMarks feature. This functionality allows you to carry out linguistic analysis of documents, find similarities if words have been changed to synonyms, swapped, spelling of a word has been changed, etc. This function is very much in demand in order to teach students to correctly paraphrase texts, as well as to replenish the evidence base when finding plagiarism in scientific papers. SmartMarks was released in July 2020.
22 September 2020
StrikePlagiarism.com signs Memorandum of Cooperation with NAQA (National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance) that extends cooperation and strengthen mutual supports in a sphere of academic integrity. StrikePlagiarism.com is invited to assist NAQA in exercising process and provide plagiarism detection service for verification of PhD and Doctoral thesis. Press release of NAQA is available here.
5 February 2020
In February 2020 Ali Tahmazov, executive director of Plagiat.pl conducted a series of trainings and seminars on plagiarism procedures, methodology of evaluation, development or processes of plagiarism prevention among the professors of Almaty universities such as Turan, KIMEP and Satbayev university.
3 March 2020
Plagiat.pl team held successful meetings in Tbilisi, Georgia! Tbilisi universities are ready to fight plagiarism! Despite the fact that many universities in Georgia have significant experience in preventing academic plagiarism, there are some institutions that are just beginning the path to zero tolerance and want to study the experience of other universities in the region and practical examples.
13 February 2020
A webinar by Mr. Krzysztof M. Gutowski conducted on a very popular topics such as, what disciplinary measures against academic plagiarism are established by law and practice at universities in Poland. Who makes the decision to withdraw the academic degree and diploma of a university in Poland as well as what are the requirements for publications regarding plagiarism, how the new points system for evaluating scientific articles in Poland works, and how this affects, for example, the author’s salary. What is the purpose of such fundamental changes in the article rating system. What are the other requirements for evaluating publishers. What other innovations does the new law on higher education in Poland suggest?
3 December 2019
In early December 2019, the Plagiat.pl team took part in the seminar under the leadership of the first Vice Minister of Innovative Development of Uzbekistan and the President of Plagiat.pl. During the meeting with the academic community, topics of preventing plagiarism in science, the experience of Poland in this direction, the new law on higher education in Poland and Uzbekistan were touched upon. The Vice Minister, emphasized decisiveness in the fight against plagiarism and praised the cooperation with Plagiat.pl. As a result, it was decided to sign a memorandum of cooperation.
16 January 2020
On January 16, 2020, a webinar was held with a presentation by Dr. Thomas Foltynek of the University of Mendel, Brno, Czech Republic, and Dr. Irene Glendinning, Coventry University, UK. This presentation is about the situation with academic integrity (a project called PAICKT) in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Armenia. The project is supported by the European Council. Doc Thomas Foltynek is the president of ENAI (European Network on Academic Integrity). The report shows what the situation is in the universities of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Armenia with academic plagiarism, responsibility for plagiarism, how the student community and faculty understand the concept of academic honesty, what activities are carried out in these countries. This report will be of interest to teachers, university leaders, students, as well as journalists and representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science and educational institutions. Please see the video by clicking here.
1 December 2019
Report about situation for academic plagiarism by ENAI. Report about situation for academic plagiarism in Kazakhstan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia made by ENAI supported by European Council. Report was complete by the end of 2019.
16 November 2020
StrikePlagiarism.com joined a seminar on Academic integrity in Polish university - Grand séminaire d'Ołtarzew. Mr. Krzysztof Gutowski, an GDPR expert of Plagiat.pl was presenting legislative changes in Poland and EU, giving practical cases on GDPR and how academic integrity has developed in Poland within last few years. The visitors were professors from Ukraine.
14 September 2019
Maksim Maevsky, Roksolyana Ostapiv, Ali Tahmazov and Elena Lavrentieva on 14th of September 2019 are talking about legislation for anti-plagiarism measures at the universities, popular ways of system cheating and methodology of evaluation. The changes in an education law describe precisely the terminology of academic dishonesty and responsibility for academic staff and authors. However, many universities doesn't follow the law due to the lack of procedues and reputational risks. Ukrainian universities did huge changes and efforts within few last years in increasing academic integrity. Ukrainian academia wants fast changes.
4 August 2019
Vice-Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan was accused in plagiarism. Information about plagiarism was shared on facebook by Anar Kaibekova. Later, the information was published by Inform.kz. The doctoral dissertation of Fatima Zhakypova was, meantime, analyzed by few independent experts including Vice-Rector of Satbayev University Kazakhstan, Mr Rinat Iskakov. Mr Iskakov used StrikePlagiarism.com to analyze this dissertation. The results are available at the open source. Click here to know more.
5 June 2019
StrikePlagiarism.com and Sofia University in June 2019 conducted next training session on academic integrity, plagiarism verification procedures, prevention of plagiarism, use of Moodle etc for its academic staff, heads of the deaneries and library. The training took 2 days and more than 100 people.
9 June 2019
StrikePlagiarism.com has joined a the 5th international conference Plagiarism Across Europe and Beyond organized by ENAI (European Network of Academic Integrity) that took place in Vilnius in June 2019, Lithuania as sponsor, supporting this event 4th year. This is a great event for our team to grasp valuable knowledge and disseminate it via our network of universities. Such events make cooperation between companies providing technical solution and HEIs stronger and we more understand the needs of each other and expectations.
19 March 2019
Plagiat.pl organized international round table in Kazakhstan. On March 19, 2019 at Rixos Khadisha Shymkent Hotel was held an international round table “Academic honesty – the core problem and consequences of plagiarism in scientific publications” which was organized by Plagiat.pl and Shymkent University. Plagiat.pl’s representative Ali Takhmazov – Executive Director of Plagiat.pl expressed significant changes in increasing of academic integrity in Kazakhstan. Plagiat.pl is operating in Kazakhstan since 2015, cooperates with 50 universities on regular basis and is a leading plagiarism detection system in CA.
18 February 2018
The Plagiat.pl’s software will be affordable to all universities in Ukraine.The memorandum signed in February 2018 between the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Plagiat.pl in Kiev. According to this agreement, HEIs of Ukraine get discount access to the StrikePlagiarism.com that will allow to verify all Doctoral and Ph.D. dissertations as well as improve procedures.
14 November 2018
Sofia University hosted a conference „Antiplagiarism and academia – problems and solutions”. In the Aula of the Sofia University was held a national forum on „Antiplagiarism and academy – problems and solutions „organized by the Center for Distance Learning of the University and the Rector’s Office of Alma Mater. The forum focused on one of the current and painful topics related to academics and the quality of higher education in the 21st century. Issues that have also been reflected in the amendments to the Law on the Development of the Academic Staff in the Republic of Bulgaria. Read more here.
27 June 2018
StrikePlagiarism.com on the 3rd International Conference „Plagiarism across Europe and Beyond”. Keynote speech made by Ali Tahmazov and Cristina Costiniuc – Role of politics in academic plagiarism – was embracing political influence in post soviet region. The workshop was focused on experience in integration of Antiplagiarism System on the National level. The conference was organized by the Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic), in collaboration with the European Network for Academic Integrity and the Council of Europe.
16 April 2018
Georgian universities are starting to use StrikePlagiarism.com system. More and more universities join network of StrikePlagiarism.com in Georgia and Azerbaijan. A StrikePlagiarism.com team had also meetings with representatives of Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia and Azerbaijan. The discussions focused on topics related to the problems with verification of Ph.D. dissertations, unified procedures and regulations. Ministries of Education and Sciences of both countries expressed their interest in our technologies and willingness to move forward.
23 November 2017
We encourage you to read the article, which Cristina Costiniuc, Head of Plagiat.pl’s Romanian office, has published in journal, a project developed by Enformation. Plagiarism is one of the most debated subjects in Romanian society. While most of the attention is on politicians, the subject has had a major impact on the academic environment and it has led to important changes in how we view academic integrity today. The aim of the present paper is to list both the progress we have made as well as the challenges we still need to face. More can be found here.