We offer all students, researchers, and staff at the Czech Technical University (CTU) plagiarism checking using the iThenticate tool from Turnitin.
This is the most widely used software for detecting and checking plagiarism in academic publishing worldwide. It allows for originality checks primarily in English texts and provides a detailed comparison against a vast database of globally published scientific texts, including those available in repositories and freely on the internet.
Terms of use
iThenticate can be utilized by students, researchers, and staff across ČVUT for professional texts in English that will be published with publishers both within and outside of the CTU.
iThenticate currently accepts the following file types:
- Microsoft Word® (DOC and DOCX)
- Word XML
- Plain text (TXT)
- Adobe PostScript
- Portable Document Format (PDF) - iThenticate only supports PDF files created by Adobe or Microsoft Word.
- HTML
- Corel WordPerfect® (WPD)
- Rich Text Format (RTF)
- PowerPoint (PPTX and PPT)
Technical requirements of files
The file size must not exceed 800 pages and cannot be larger than 100 MB. Larger files can be reduced in size by removing non-text content.Files that are password-protected, encrypted, hidden, system files, or read-only cannot be uploaded or submitted to the iThenticate system.Submitting files in ZIP format allows for the submission of up to 1,000 files or a total of 100 MB. ZIP files must contain only usable file formats.
Contact
If you wish to use iThenticate for checking a specific document or want to make the iThenticate tool available for checking a larger number of works (e.g., within a department), please contact us at