Awareness among Research Scholars towards Turnitin: A Study of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology Hisar, Haryana

After Google a tremendous growth has been noticed in digital contents even becoming double and triple after few days. Thereby, the access of these contents has become so easy even copying also. The scholars are taking the material from web and incorporate the same in their research work with attribution or without attribution and publish by their own name. When any scholar publishes his/her research work in the form of review paper/s and research paper/s without acknowledging the original author, it leads to plagiarism or more text similarity. To deter the same, numerous tools are available in the market. Few are offering their services without payment and few are on payment basis. Turnitin is one significant deterrence tool among of them as many studies depicted. In this connection, to know the scholars attitude towards Turnitin, a survey has been conducted with 80 scholars of different disciplines of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar. The present research paper intends to know the awareness of research scholars towards Turnitin anti-plagiarism software so that the level of awareness of scholars may be judged accordingly and can offer the orientation, if require.