CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. The organisation was formed in 2008 and initially focused on digital object identifier (DOI) registration and reference linking using the DOI to create a sustainable infrastructure and interoperability in online scholarly publishing. CrossRef's role in the industry has expanded however, and the organisation now provides a wider range of services that aim to serve the collective needs of the industry. In 2007, the CrossRef board identified plagiarism as an area of concern, and CrossCheck was launched in 2008. CrossCheck uses the iThenticate tool from iParadigms to compare the text of manuscripts to a unique database of content which contains the full-text of articles, books and conference proceedings from over 500 publishers. When a manuscript is uploaded, a report is prepared and presented to an editor so that they can gauge the originality of a piece of text and see where it overlaps with other papers. CrossCheck is now being widely adopted by journals as part of their peer review process, and over 100,000 manuscripts were uploaded to the iThenticate system to be checked in August 2013. This raises a new set of questions however; how to interpret the reports, how to follow-up and what limitations still exist in text-comparison software. Where do we go from here?

Tools for identifying potential misconduct: The CrossCheck service from CrossRef

247th National Meeting (2014)

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.