Development of an Academic research plagiarism detection system

Description

Abstract The problem of plagiarism in Africa generally is growing at an alarming rate, especially in Nigeria. The students of all categories are involved, ranging from primary, secondary to tertiary institutions. To solve this problem, this research focuses on a way of developing software which detects plagiarized information on the internet and our computer folders which contain some past research works documents and repository of our important documents. In view of achieving this, some internet searching engines were used such as Google.com, Altavista.com, Yahoo.com. While on detecting on computer’s past records saved, some pattern matching algorisms were used. As part of the instruments used, Programming language( Visual Basic 6.0) was used in connections with Database management utility(Microsoft Access).