The Plagiat.pl’s software will be accessible to all universities in Ukraine to fight with the plagiarism. These are the key entries of the memorandum signed between the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Plagiat.pl in Kiev. According to this agreement, Higher Educational Institutions of Ukraine get free access to the Polish anti-plagiarism system that allows to verify all Ph.D. papers.

Due to the memorandum, universities in Ukraine will be able to use Plagiat.pl’s software at ease. Plagiat.pl will help to import resources from university repositories or support Universities while internal comparative database creation. So that uploaded papers could be verified within internal databases resources in future. Plagiat.pl will also give the universities the opportunity to create an analog of the Inter-university Bases Exchange Program that has been functioning in Poland for several years. Any Ukrainian university that will join this Program, will be able to expand the range of verification sources due to database network that links all university-members. Documents checked in Ukraine will also be compared with the Global Internet Network.

– Plagiat.pl has been providing the anti-plagiarism services for over 15 years. During this time, we have defined the need to protect intellectual property in Poland. While in Ukraine, our office has been constantly developing  for over two years and today the moment has come for our eastern neighbors to seize the opportunity to further increase the respect for copyright and say goodbye to the plagiarisms in the Doctoral theses. We are pleased to share all our knowledge and our original technological solutions for this purpose – says Ali Tahmazov, Executive Director for International Market in Plagiat.pl.

Memorandum also includes implementation of seminars, trainings, conferences and workshops in the field of promotion of copyright protection in Ukraine. Using long-term experience, Plagiat.pl is also ready to conduct trainings and, together with interested universities, implement full procedures of effective anti-plagiarism detection covering not only access to the software itself, but also the entire analysis process of verification results.

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