TokyoAnd May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Turnitin – a leading provider of assessment and academic integrity solutions – and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)A government agency responsible for implementing science and technology policy in Japan has announced its content partnership.
The partnership aims to provide the academic and research community with a comprehensive database of Japanese content to check new academic content for plagiarism, originality, and authorship. The Japan Liaison Center (JaLC)—Japan’s Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration service for academic content, for which JST serves as a trust — and JST’s online academic journal J-stage Contribute Japanese academic content to Turnitin’s secure and comprehensive academic database.
Turnitin’s content database helps researchers and publishers detect potential plagiarism by uploading and comparing submissions with more than 82 million scholarly articles submitted and owned by the world’s leading academic publishers.
Content contributed to Turnitin by JaLC and J-STAGE includes: 1) JaLC content that is derived from member institutions that use Turnitin’s plagiarism-prevention program and whose DOI identifiers have been registered through JaLC, and 2) J-STAGE content whose DOIs have been registered by JLC. Already, more than 2.6 million pieces of Japanese academic content have been added to J-STAGE’s Turnitin database.
“at October 2020Turnitin has set up a Japanese entity in response to the growing domestic demand from academic institutions,” said Turnitin’s Regional Director for Northeast Asia. Betsy Matsunaga. “This partnership also exemplifies the commitment of the Japanese education and research community to academic integrity. We look forward to working with the Japan Agency for Science and Technology to help ensure the integrity of academic research.”
“We have received many requests from members of Japan Link Center and other academic institutions in Japan To use plagiarism check, especially for Japanese content,” said Vice Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Japan Link Center Ritsuko Nakajima. “We felt it necessary to respond to this request. We are very pleased to be able to provide plagiarism prevention services to Japan Link Center member institutions through this partnership. We hope that this initiative will help improve the integrity of research in Japan and promote the distribution of academic content originating from Japan. “
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Motoki EndoAnd mendo@turnitin.com
About the Japanese Connection Center
Japan Liaison Center (JaLC) Centrally manages bibliography and location information for academic content — such as articles, books, statements, theses, reports, e-learning, and more — in Japan. It is a digital object identifier (DOI) registration system. Certified by the DOI on March 15, 2012 As the ninth DOI registration authority in the world and the only one in Japan. JaLC also collects and manages bibliographic information regarding content when DOIs are registered. JaLC is jointly operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, the National Institute of Materials Science, the National Informatics Institute, and the National Diet Library.
About the Japan Agency for Science and Technology
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) It is an organization that plays a central role in the Basic Plan for Science and Technology. Based on the goals set by the government, JST comprehensively implements a variety of projects to promote science and technology and solve social issues, including basic research, basic research and development, support for the commercialization of new technologies, the distribution of scientific and technological information, and, more recently, the promotion of international research Joint development of next generation human resources. As part of the distribution of scientific and technology information, JST operates the electronic journal platform J-stage It acts as a secretariat for the local digital object identifier registration organization Japanese Connection Center.
About Turnitin
Turnitin is a global company dedicated to ensuring the integrity of education and the meaningful improvement of learning outcomes. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness in all subject areas and types of assessment. Turnitin products are used by educational institutions, certification and licensing programs to support integrity and increase learning performance, and by students and professionals to do their original work to the best of their ability.
Turnitin has offices in AustraliaAnd IndiaAnd IndonesiaAnd JapanKorea, MexicoAnd HollandAnd FilipinosAnd UkraineThe United kingdomAnd United State. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and companies use Turnitin services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Similar Turnitin, ExamSoft, ProctorExam, Ouriginal.
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