What are viable open-source alternatives to Turnitin for plagiarism detection in theses and dissertations, and what are their strengths and weaknesses?
Although there are many open source options available to check for plagiarism such as scribbr, PlagScan, OpenSource Plagiarism Checker (OPL) and grammarly but universities, journal editors and databases prefer Turnitin as 'gold standard' for both similarity and AI detection.
One common weakness to open source detectors is limited access to databases i.e. may not compare submissions against as large a database as Turnitin. Additionally, these are not always 100% free.
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