Limitations of Anti-Plagiarism Software

Abstract

Plagiarism is probably the most problematic aspect of contemporary academic ethics. Online access to scientific materials has simplified the work of researchers in some ways, but has also complicated things by making the plagiarism easier. Nowadays, the copying of ideas, expressions or discoveries of other authors from the internet without proper quotation is only a click away. Anti-plagiarism software was designed to combat these misconducts. Even though the anti-plagiarism software helps eliminating illegal appropriation of ideas, expressions, discoveries etc, it has limitation. The subject of the present paper is to present and analyse these limitations, such as taking scientific materials from old books that are not uploaded on the internet, books and articles published in foreign languages and so on.