October 4, 2006
Turnitin Comes Back to Kansas
When the University of Kansas decided to drop its subscription to Turnitin, the widely used plagiarism-detection service, professors fretted that the institution was taking away a valuable tool (The Chronicle, September 20). But campus officials said the service, which cost them $22,000 a year, was too pricey.
That seems no longer to be the case. The university announced yesterday that it would change course and renew its subscription to Turnitin, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. Financial details of the deal were not released, but Turnitin officials say they assuaged Kansas officials’ concerns about intellectual-property rights by agreeing to withhold some student papers from the huge database against which all essays are checked. —Brock Read
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