Automated fetching of iThenticate results

Hi,

I am about to enable the automated forwarding of submitted manuscripts to iThenticate using the iThenticate plugin as discussed in the old OJS forum at http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=7041. From the quick look at the plugin code I can see that the only thing that the plugin does is to place the manuscript into an iThenticate folder so that it gets processed at some later time. It is the iThenticate account owner’s responsibility to check that the report has been generated and to download it and attach it somehow to the manuscript in OJS (at least this is what we would like to have at the end).

Before I start to dig into details I would like to know if someone has patched ands extended OJS in this way, i.e. to have a background cron job trying to fetch plagiarism reports from iThenticate and assign them automatically to submissions in OJS, for example as a submission note (it would be nice if our reviewers could see it as well, but if the report is visible only to editors, it is also okay).

Thanks.

Jan

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Hi @jprk,

I’m not aware of anything done to extend the current iThenticate plugin; feel free to post here if you get stuck on a particular detail.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Hi @jprk

I’m also interested in using the iThenticate plugin
Have you patched or extended the iThenticate plugin?

Regards,
Tarcisio Pereira.

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Hi Alec

Can we use the plugin mentioned here for OJS 3.1.0.1? I’m trying to find the plugin for iThenticate or any other plagiarism checker.

Thanks,
Cornelle

Hi @Cornelle,

The plugin linked at the head of this thread hasn’t been updated to work with OJS 3.x yet. We do watch this forum for a sense of community demand, but I’ll also note that the iThenticate plugin isn’t “officially” maintained by PKP like many others are.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team