Plagiarism is a serious problem identified amongst research community. Plagiarism has been around for centuries, but with the use of Internet and easy access to material in electronic format has made it easier to plagiarize materials of others. On the other hand plagiarism detection is now as easy as plagiarizing a document. There are a number of anti-plagiarism software available either freely or commercially, which can be used for plagiarism detection. But the commercial softwares are too expensive. So it is not affordable for an individual to purchase those softwares. This paper highlights the plagiarism detection softwares which are freely available online, that can be downloaded free of cost. It is suggested that faculty members and research scholars can use these anti plagiarism softwares in checking their thesis or research papers before submitting to universities or conferences. Identifying the plagiarized content has become one of the major concerns of journals publishers, research center and conferences organisers. The software that are mentioned and referred to in this paper are all valuable resources to discover plagiarized materials. By employing these softwares one can ascertain that none of the articles, documents or research work in any form and capacity, is not plagiarized and thereby the copyright of the publisher and the authors are not violated. Plagiarism can destroy any one's career and this paper creates awareness of plagiarism softwares among research scholars, faculty members and helps them to have successful academic careers in future by avoiding plagiarism.
Tripathi et al. (Thu,) studied this question.