Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism, in particular the inclusion of texts from other sources in academic works that are not marked as quotations, must be avoided, regardless of whether this is done deliberately or out of ignorance.
According to § 11e of the Student Regulations of the University of Basel and § 4 Paragraph 7a of the Regulation Relating to Academic Integrity, plagiarism is a disciplinary offence that will be punished accordingly.

The Turnitin campus licence expires on 31 August 2026.

At the University of Basel, the Turnitin plagiarism detection software will be available until 31 August 2026. Following the termination of the campus licence, individual members of the university or university organisational units are, of course, free to continue to licence plagiarism-checking tools on their own responsibility.

The University of Basel has a campus licence for the plagiarism detection software Turnitin. This software enables all student assignments to be checked for matches with other texts (originality check). To achieve this, Turnitin uses millions of articles, websites and papers uploaded by students (only when approved by the institution) worldwide. The system compares sequences of words (including synonyms and optionally machine translations of non english texts). Content evaluation must be done by teaching staff or authorized specialists. Departments, lecturers and researchers at the University of Basel may request that an account be created via plagiarismus-ub@unibas.ch.

Members of the University of Basel, in particular students whose work is not checked as part of a course, have the option of doing this themselves in a specially created ADAM course "Plagiarism Self Check-in".

Lecturers have the option of having student work checked in ADAM as part of a course. To do this, the object "Plagiarism check" must be added to the course.  Instructions for lecturers and students can be found here .

Scientists and researchers of the University of Basel can set up a personal account via plagiarismus-ub@clutterunibas.ch.