OJS Plugin: Plagiarism plugin

[mcrider]

This plugin uses sends all new submissions to iThenticate, a service that checks for the likelyhood that a document is plagiarized. To use, put the plugin in your generic plugins folder. You must have a (paid) account with iThenticate to use this!

Also, this needs to be added to your main config.inc.php file:

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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; iThenticate Plugin Settings ;
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[ithenticate]

; Enable iThenticate to submit manuscripts after submit step 4
ithenticate = On

; The iThenticate API host name
host = "api.ithenticate.com"

; The username to access the API (usually an email address)
username = "yourusername@email.com"

; The password to access the API
password = "password"


[talknshare]

Hello,
Our journal has the iThenticate service activated, and I have tried to run this plugin, but hasn't worked yet.

The information is in the config.php and all the relevant info like api address, username and password are in place.
I also tried to use a different API address "https://api.ithenticate.com/rpc" as mentioned in this document provided by an iThenticate engineer:
https://edgecastcdn.net/800404/app.ithe ... IGuide.pdf

I contacted an engineer at iThenticate to help out with the plugin, but due to the 3rd party nature of the plugin they are unable to do so.
Please let me know if the plugin is outdated or something that I need to add to the plugin.

Thanks.

[Garant]

Hi!
I'd like to know how to modificate this plugin in order to work with multiple accounts.
The OJS serves for several journals and each individual journal has it's own account. With these settings all journals will share the one account which is not good.
Thank you!

[Damion]

I'm fairly new to OJS, but having just looked at the plagiarism plugin for a related project I can say that this would probably require a half day of customization to that code. One approach would have a settings form added to the plugin, that would list a separate username and password for each journal (as you note).

I looked for a settings form that looped through rows, closest I could find is the plugins/generic/customBlockManager/settingsForm.pl . You'd do a similar approach, but simply be generating/processing "plagiarism_[journalId]" entries that contained username and password info.

A question though for the experts. How secure is the $plugin->getSetting() function? Any concern that user id / password information could be compromised this way?

[asmecher]

Hi Damion,

The setting values are stored unencrypted in the database, so cracking into the DB would give access. However, there is no way to use another part of the system to arbitrarily fetch settings by name through the web interface, so barring malicious PHP code e.g. in a plugin, there is no way to read settings via OJS's own web interface. If possible, I would suggest storing them hashed, and of course never echoing them back to the browser.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[Makso]

Hello to everyone,

As I am new to OJS in general, this is a somewhat "naive question". I have installed this plugin and entered my username and password. Then I enabled it as Journal Manager. However, for the life of me, I cannot find where I am supposed to check a submitted manuscript. Where is the option to run a text through ithenticate? Thank you in advance...

[kennymatthew]

Hello to everyone,

As I am new to OJS in general, this is a somewhat "naive question". I have installed this plugin and entered my username and password. Then I enabled it as Journal Manager. However, for the life of me, I cannot find where I am supposed to check a submitted manuscript. Where is the option to run a text through ithenticate? Thank you in advance...

; Enable iThenticate to submit manuscripts after submit step 4 ( config file)

But I cant find anything .......

[asmecher]

Hi all,

If you've followed the instructions in README.txt but still don't see the plugin appearing where you expect it, the most likely cause is a missing entry in the "versions" table for the plugin. To generate that, run the upgrade script (php tools/upgrade.php upgrade) once the plugin is unpacked into your installation. (Please back up your database before you do this.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team