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iThenticate at MBZUAI: Raise a request

iThenticate is a text similarity matching tool that is used by major scholarly publishers and research institutions to screen manuscript submissions and verify originality and the appropriate use and citation of third-party work. iThenticate has been developed specifically for academics and researchers and compares a submitted piece of work against databases of scholarly work and theses and dissertations. 

iThenticate does not capture unpublished work and will not add your work to any database.

MBZUAI iThenticate service is available for use by faculty, researchers, and students who would like to review their MBZUAI-affiliated work before submission to a publisher.  MBZUAI students will be required to screen their graduate research manuscripts using iThenticate before submitting their work for the final assessment.

HOW TO RAISE A REQUEST FOR THE SERVICE

Our current subscription allows for a specific number of reviews and MBZUAI Library will try to distribute the resource as fairly as possible. 

If you would like to have a publication screened before submitting to a publisher, please follow the steps below:

 

Please consider the following before raising a request

  • This is intended as a self-check of your own work
  • This should be the final version of the work (an additional check of the work would require a new submission request)
  • Verify that MBZUAI coauthors have not raised a request for the same work
  • Share the report with coauthors (download a .pdf report)

 

Submit a request for each submission

1 submission per person/paper per month.

  • Complete a request form for each submission
  • Please wait for an email from ithenticate@mbzuai.ac.ae before proceeding with a submission. We will try to respond within three working days and secure the necessary endorsement.
  • If this is the first request raised for this service you will receive an email invitation to set up an iThenticate account.

Complete the request form here 

GUIDES & TRAINING VIDEOS

MBZUAI DISSERTATIONS & THESES

MBZUAI students will be required to submit their manuscripts for screening before their final assessments. The Graduate Thesis Guide will be updated to describe the necessary process. 

FILE REQUIREMENTS

The following document types are supported:
Word, Text, PostScript, PDF, HTML, Excel, PowerPoint, Word Perfect WPD, OpenOffice ODT, RTF, Hangul HWP

  • The maximum document length is 800 pages.
  • Files must not exceed 2MB of raw text.

Useful Tips

How do we exclude the bibliography section and self-plagiarised sources from the iThenticate-generated plagiarism report?

Click "View Sources" at the bottom of the taskbar of the similarity report that has been prepared to exclude the reference section. Then choose "exclude bibliography" to remove the reference section from the list of options available to eliminate different document sections.

Click "View/edit filters and settings" at the bottom right of the taskbar, choose the self-plagiarized sources from the plagiarism index table on the left navigation bar under "All Sources," and then click "Exclude Sources".

In a thesis, how can self-plagiarized content that has been published elsewhere be quantified?

Email to etd.deposit@mbzuai.ac.ae and copied to your supervisor explaining that your thesis similarity report generated using the University iThenticate service results in 40% which is more than the accepted similarity rate of 20%. This is because your thesis is based on your published research papers (provide the URL of the published article, as an example below):

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.11430.pdf (Bridging the Gap between Object and Image-level Representations for Open-Vocabulary Detection); https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03482 (Class-agnostic object detection with Multi-model exn)