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TOKYO, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Turnitin (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3530468-1&h=1374474424&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.turnitin.com%2F&a=Turnitin) -- a leading provider of academic integrity and assessment solutions -- and

Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST) (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3530468-1&h=247225466&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jst.go.jp%2FEN%2F&a=Japanese+Science+and+Technology+Agency+(JST)) -- a government agency responsible for implementing science and technology

policy in Japan -- -- announced their content partnership.

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The partnership aims to provide the academic and research community with a

comprehensive Japanese content database to cross-check new academic content for

potential plagiarism, originality, and authorship. The Japan Link Center (JaLC)

(https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3530468-1&h=613424677&u=https%3A%2F%2Fjapanlinkcenter.org%2F&a=Japan+Link+Center+(JaLC)) -- Japan's Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration service for academic

content, which JST serves as a secretariat -- and JST's online academic journal

J-STAGE (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3530468-1&h=2685033462&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstage.jst.go.jp%2F&a=J-STAGE) are contributing Japanese academic content to Turnitin's secure and

extensive scholarly database.

Turnitin's content database helps researchers and publishers surface potential

plagiarism by uploading and comparing submissions against more than 82 million

scholarly articles provided and owned by the world's premier academic

publishers.

Content contributed to Turnitin by JaLC and J-STAGE includes: 1) JaLC content

derived from member institutions that use Turnitin plagiarism prevention

software and have had their contents' DOIs registered through JaLC, and 2)

J-STAGE content whose DOIs have been registered through JaLC. Already, over 2.6

million pieces of Japanese academic content have been added to the Turnitin

database from J-STAGE.

"In October 2020, Turnitin established a Japanese entity in response to growing

domestic demand from academic institutions," said Turnitin North East Asia

Regional Director Betsy Matsunaga. "This partnership further exemplifies the

Japanese education and research community's commitment to academic integrity.

We look forward to working with the Japan Science and Technology Agency to help

ensure the integrity of academic research."

"We have received many requests from Japan Link Center members and other

academic institutions in Japan to use plagiarism checking, especially for

Japanese content," said Japan Link Center Steering Committee Vice Chair Ritsuko

Nakajima. "We felt it necessary to respond to this request. We are very pleased

to be able to offer plagiarism prevention services to Japan Link Center member

institutions through this partnership. We hope that this initiative will help

improve research integrity in Japan and promote the distribution of academic

content originating from Japan."

Turnitin Japan media contact

Motoki Endo, mendo@turnitin.com

About Japan Link Center

Japan Link Center (JaLC) (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3530468-1&h=613424677&u=https%3A%2F%2Fjapanlinkcenter.org%2F&a=Japan+Link+Center+(JaLC)) centrally manages bibliography and location information of academic

content—such as articles, books, data, dissertations, reports, e-learning, and

more -- in Japan. It is a system to register a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

It was certified by the DOI Foundation on March 15, 2012 as the ninth DOI

registration body in the world and the only one in Japan. JaLC also collects

and manages bibliographic information related to the content when registering

DOIs. JaLC is jointly operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, the

National Institute for Materials Science, the National Institute of

Informatics, and the National Diet Library.

About Japan Science and Technology Agency

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3530468-1&h=1920737976&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jst.go.jp%2FEN%2F&a=Japan+Science+and+Technology+Agency+(JST)) is an organization that plays a central role in the Science and Technology

Basic Plan. Based on the goals set by the government, JST comprehensively

implements a variety of projects to promote science and technology and solve

social issues, including basic research, fundamental research and development,

support for commercialization of new technologies, distribution of scientific

and technological information, and more recently, promotion of international

joint research and development of next-generation human resources. As part of

the distribution of scientific and technological information, JST operates the

electronic journal platform J-STAGE (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3530468-1&h=2685033462&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstage.jst.go.jp%2F&a=J-STAGE)

and serves as the secretariat of the domestic Digital Object Identifier

registration organization Japan Link Center (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3530468-1&h=795253761&u=https%3A%2F%2Fjapanlinkcenter.org%2F&a=Japan+Link+Center).

About Turnitin

Turnitin (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3530468-1&h=3842947901&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.turnitin.com%2F&a=Turnitin) is

a global company dedicated to ensuring the integrity of education and

meaningfully improving learning outcomes. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has

partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and

fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Turnitin products are

used by educational institutions and certification and licensing programs to

uphold integrity and increase learning performance, and by students and

professionals to do their best, original work.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the

Netherlands, the Philippines, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United

States. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use

Turnitin services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback

Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, ProctorExam, and

Ouriginal.

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