This is a long-shot. I run the website the TRIP Database and we have a related articles feature. If you go to this page http://www.tripdatabase.com/search/related and copy and paste the passage it'll return documents that are linguistically close. It's a long-shot as we may not have the original article in our index! But as it's just a simple 'copy and paste' function it might work!

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Puliyel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear All
I have been sent an article for peer review where I think large chunks have been cut and pasted from elsewhere, without acknowledging the original authors. I however cannot remember where I have read the articles before, and so I cannot verify if my suspicion is correct.

Does anyone know any software (free software if possible) that allows one to check for such things.

One way is to 'Google search' for an operative sentence but the numerous hits make it tiresome.

Any suggestions welcome.

Warm regards

Jacob Puliyel

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