The goal of this web site is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. At present, it distributes free software to detect plagiarism and provides links to other resources. This site�s sole author is Lou Bloomfield, Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, Box 400714, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4714, bloomfield@virginia.edu.

Discussions of Plagiarism and Academics Misconduct

Software for Detecting Plagiarism

If you have a collection of documents that you think might contain plagiarized content, you can check them quickly with this free software.

Note: There are many uses for this pattern matching software beyond the context of plagiarism. If you find an interesting alternative use, I'd be delighted to hear about it. -- LB

Frequently Asked Questions


Essays by Lou Bloomfield (typically published articles)

Links to other sites dealing with plagiarism

Links to presentations of cases of alleged plagiarism

Page Last Updated: June 8, 2005