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iThenticate

Description and educational content for the use of iThenticate on UNTHSC's campus.

Creating Your Account

  • Contact the Office of Research Administration for access here: access request form and iThenticate review form
  • Access iThenticate through our research support portal (Lib-Guide).
  • Submit your proposal draft to GRAMS and you will receive an automated message with instructions.

Submitting a Document

How can a faculty submit a document to iThenticate?

Faculty can submit the document by filling out an access request form at  access request form and also submit works for review with iThenticate review form.

The iThenticate similarity report will be emailed to you within two business days. You must be the author or have the author's permission to submit documents. Acceptable document types are Word(.doc), Word XML(.docx), Text(.txt), PostScript(.ps), PDF(.pdf), HTML(.htm), WordPerfect WPD(.wpd), or RTF (.rtf).

After I receive access, how do I submit a document?

There are a variety of ways to submit a document: Upload a single file, upload a compressed zip file (may contain up to 1000 files, or 100MB), or Cut & Paste text. For complete instructions, visit our help pages.

Document Requirements

What are the document submission requirements?

The file may not exceed 800 pages. The file size may not exceed 100 MB. The word count of one submission should not exceed 25,000 words. Files of larger size may be reduced in size by removal of non-text content. Files that are password protected, encrypted, hidden, system files, or read-only files cannot be uploaded or submitted to iThenticate.

The zip file upload accepts up to 1000 files or 200MB of zipped information. A zip file to be uploaded may not exceed either limit. Zip files should be checked to ensure only usable file formats are included in the upload.

Acceptable document types are Word(.doc), Word XML(.docx), Text(.txt), PostScript(.ps), PDF(.pdf), HTML(.htm), WordPerfect WPD(.wpd), or RTF (.rtf).

iThenticate Quick Start Guide

This quickstart guide will help you get started using iThenticate. First-time users will receive an email from their campus iThenticate administrator with a username and a one-time password. You may only log in once with the one-time password and you will need to change it the first time you log in.

  1. To log in to iThenticate, select the Login button at www.ithenticate.com.

    Enter your email and the password into the appropriate fields and select Login
  2. iThenticate will provide you with a folder group My Folders and a folder within that group titled My Documents.

    From the My Documents folder, you will be able to submit a document by selecting the Submit a document link.
  3. On the Upload a file page, enter the authorship details and the document title. Select Choose File and locate the file on your device.

    Select the Add another file link to add another file. You can add up to ten files before submitting. Select Upload to upload the document(s).
  4. To view the Similarity Report for the paper, select the similarity score in the Report column. It usually takes a couple of minutes for a report to generate.

 

*Information and images provided by iThenticate.  Accessed 1/31/2024