Self Plagiarism:
Self-plagiarism occurs when an author reuses portions of their previous writings in subsequent research papers. Occasionally, the derived paper is simply a re-titled and reformatted version of the original one, but more frequently it is assembled from bits and pieces of previous work.
It is our belief that self-plagiarism is detrimental to scientific progress and bad for our academic community. Flooding conferences and journals with near-identical papers makes searching for information relevant to a particular topic harder than it has to be. It also rewards those authors who are able to break down their results into overlapping least-publishable-units over those who publish each result only once. Finally, whenever a self-plagiarized paper is allowed to be published, another, more deserving paper, is not.
Get the self-plagiarism paper here.
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Menu Tabs: Tab selection menu
Home:
This is where you will find this Quick-Start guide along with a simple web browser
should you need to browse the internet.
Local Search:
Perform a plagiarism test on a set of files stored on a local disk
Spider Search:
Launches a WebSpider starting from a "root" html page online. The Spider will
download files linked from this page based on rules specified in the Configurations
panel. After the files are downloaded, they are compared to each other locally.
Note that this option requires a healthy internet connection.
Author Search:
Enter the names of multiple authors to do multiple Spider searches on.
Saved Search:
Recall a saved search from local disk.
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WebSpider:
The WebSpider is a utility built into SPlaT for automatically downloading relevant documents
for comparison. The spider can follow different search algorithms depending on different
needs. The following four options are currently available:
WebSearch:
This algorithm forces the spider to follow each and every link on the page exhaustively
looking for documents. Options such as a "timeout" and "max number of files" can be set from
the Configurations panel.
DomainWebSearch:
This algorithm is similar to the WebSearch one above, except the spider does not search sites
that are outside the "root"'s domain name.
SmartWebSearch:
This algorithm is similar to the DomainWebSearch one above, with some additional intelligence
such as ignoring common document names and patterns.
RegExWebSearch:
This is an advanced option, where the spider can be made to only follow links that match
a certain regular expression set by the user.
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Detailed help:
For more help please visit the "Help" option in the menu-bar.
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written by Gergely Kota, Shafik Amin, 2003
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