Turnitin
The University subscribes to the JISC Plagiarism Detection Service, Turnitin. Turnitin is used by most universities in the UK to detect plagiarism in students’ work.
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin checks student work against a database and produces an originality report, highlighting any outside sources and providing a link to the original text.
How is it used?
Your work may be submitted to Turnitin periodically by your department.
The University may submit any student's work to Turnitin (in accordance with Regulation 15.3e) and may make, or authorise third parties to make, copies of work for:
- assessment
- comparison with databases of earlier work, or previously available works, to confirm that the work is original
- addition to databases of works used to ensure that future works submitted at this institution and others do not contain content from the work submitted.
The University will not make more copies of your work than necessary, and will only keep these copies for as long as necessary.
Personal data
When you registered with the University, you gave it permission to disclose your personal data to third parties for purposes relating to your studies.
Please note that, if at any time the University submits any of your work to Turnitin, the service will retain certain personal data indefinitely – for example, your name, email address, programme details and the work submitted. Such data may be transferred by the service to countries worldwide (some of which may not be governed by EU data legislation) in order for the work to be checked and an originality report generated.
You may ask for your personal data to be removed by contacting the University’s Data Protection Officer (dataprotection-queries@lists.bath.ac.uk).
