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  1. Accessing iThenticate
  2. Using iThenticate
  3. Getting Help

For faculty, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students engaged in high-level research who are interested in checking their own materials for plagiarism, we have licensed iThenticate. This tool is the scholarly/publishing version of Turnitin.

Note that iThenticate requires users to agree to an external End User License Agreement. We recommend you carefully read this agreement in full before using iThenticate.

Accessing iThenticate

Only materials authored or co-authored by University of Pennsylvania instructors, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates engaged in high-level research intended for publishing may be processed through iThenticate. Materials produced by users outside this group, including applicants for admission to any University of Pennsylvania program or school, may not be submitted through iThenticate. Materials produced by undergraduate students in registered University courses should be processed via Turnitin.

To request access to iThenticate, please contact the Courseware Services Team at canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.

Penn upgraded to iThenticate 2.0 on October 21, 2026. If you had an account in the older version of the tool with submissions, please see our blog post for information on re-activating your account in the upgraded version of the tool.

Using iThenticate

  1. Go to Penn’s iThenticate login page, and log in with your Penn email address and the iThenticate password you set when activating your account.
  2. Next, follow the directions provided by iThenticate to upload a file and generate your Similarity Report.

    Supported file types are: Microsoft Word (DOC and DOCX), Excel (XLS and XLSX, PowerPoint (PPT and PPTX), PostScript, PDF, HTML, HWP, Rich Text Format (RTF), OpenOffice (ODT), WordPerfect, Plain text (TXT).
  3. Once the upload is complete, select Open from the progress box or select the file from My Files to view the Similarity Report. The document will highlight matches with links on the right of the corresponding content. For questions on % matching, please refer to Understanding the Similarity Report.

Getting Help

Please submit a request to canvas@pobox.upenn.edu for assistance with this tool.