What sources are available for PlagScan's plagiarism check?

Unfortunately, we are not allowed to access Google services such as Google Search, Google Books and Google Scholar like a private user, due to terms of use and copyright protection of the published authors and Google's terms of service. Currently, Google does not allow access to its API for use cases, where the search results are not shown directly, because that violates their business model and agreements with the publishing industry. We are regularly checking our options and will immediately provide coverage of Google content as soon as the regulations undertake the respective change.

For crawling web content, we use Microsoft Bing as backbone to enhance our available internet content in addition to our own web index, focusing on scientific and academic relevant sites.

The time it takes to process a document depends on multiple factors, such as its length and the prevalence of its topic online. Generally, you can assume that your report will be finished within 10 minutes. However, during peak hours with very high server load, it may take a bit longer to process your documents. We apologize in advance and ask that you check back the next day. If by then your upload and analysis are still not finished, please contact us immediately.

You can either view your plagiarism reports directly with a browser, or you can download them as .pdf files. The MS Word .docx report is particularly useful, since plagiarism findings are annotated directly within the Word document.