The stand of the College of Computer and Information Sciences in the exhibition accompanying the events of the scientific research week was honored by the visit of his Excellency the Rector Dr. Khalid Bin Saad AL Mogran who inaugurated the International Turnitin System for the protection of the intellectual property of scientific research. Turnitin is a pioneering international system (supporting Arabic) that detects both plagiarism of research papers and translated plagiarism relying as it does on huge databases including more than 12 billion internet pages, more than 220 million student pages, more than 80 thousand scientific journals and periodicals, and thousands of books used in more than 10 thousand university and college in 126 countries. The system hosts a patented application of Peer Mark which allows faculty members to develop assignments for students with an assessment and marking system of research papers where students can use such assignments to learn from works of peers while assessing them at the same time. The system hosts also an application of auto-correction which allows faculty members to substitute traditional correction methods of papers with an electronic one which is more precise and energy and time preserver.
The system can also protect intellectual property rights of research papers presented by faculty members by saving these papers in specialized databases. It allows faculty members to examine students’ works and ensure all references are honestly cited and that the student did not copy material belonging to peers or cut from research papers published on the internet by comparing students works with the content of a database updated regularly and which includes the most renowned international databases in addition to a huge number of internet websites. His Excellency the rector Dr. Khalid Bin Saad AL Mogran praised the system and encouraged its use to benefit from its features and to keep up with the qualitative and quantitative published research papers while preparing and habilitating students for professional research methodology.
