This research guide is to help journal staff find reliable digital versions of documents cited in law review articles so they may check accuracy and citation information. This is not an exhaustive list of resources, please see a Reference Librarian for additional support.
In this guide:
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Plagiarism detection software includes Turnitin, Academic Plagiarism, SafeAssign, and iThenticate.
Often, the plagarism detection software that legal research databases provide do not check submissions against much (if any) law-related content. It has been reported that plagiarism detection software doesn’t work very well for law schools and that it can be more effective to run manual searches against Lexis/Westlaw/Hein/SSRN/etc.
Please also see the Texas Tech page on plagiarism!
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