Thesis process

No. Only graduate students in thesis-based programs are typically eligible to request access to iThenticate. Note: if you would like access to Turnitin Similarity for a graduate course, please contact your instructor.

Yes, as a co-author you are permitted to analyze your document using iThenticate.

No. Only the author can upload unpublished/unsubmitted drafts of a sole-authored work to iThenticate. However, after a thesis (or thesis-related document) has been formally submitted for examination, it may be submitted to iThenticate by other members of the university (e.g., Examining Committee, GPD, SGS). A supervisor may upload a student’s unsubmitted thesis draft to iThenticate if the student grants explicit written permission to the supervisor to do so.

Any written component that is part of a thesis-based graduate program, such as a research proposal document. Other such documents may vary widely from program to program.

Graduate students in thesis-based programs and thesis supervisors will no longer be able to submit documents to Similarity. However, previously submitted documents and Similarity reports will remain accessible to existing Similarity users until the end of the winter 2027 term.

Yes. Once your thesis is publicly available in Spectrum it can be analyzed by anyone using iThenticate or other text-matching software.

Please consult Turnitin guides on the Enhanced Similarity Report.

It is important when using iThenticate to know how to interpret a Similarity Report correctly. If you are a student, please talk to your supervisor or consult a Learning Specialist about how to revise your drafts accordingly.

If you suspect research misconduct or plagiarism in a formally submitted thesis containing original research, contact the Concordia’s Research Integrity Officer immediately for information on how to proceed. For all other non-thesis related infractions, please contact the Academic Governance Assistant.

iThenticate checks student work against the following databases:

• Internet: An active archive of 54+ billion current and archived web pages
• Publications: A collection of over 80 million articles from library databases, textbook publishers, digital reference collections, subscription-based publications, homework helper sites and books
• Crossref: A collection of published scholarly works
• Crossref Posted Content: A collection of scholarly works that have been submitted but not yet published
• Submitted works: All items previously submitted to any of the repositories that are part of the account: Concordia University
• Premium scholarly content: Includes access to gated content from the Turnitin database, as well as access to ProQuest’s dissertations and theses database. This database provides over 1 million dissertations and theses.

No, iThenticate cannot identify AI-generated content.