This is the first question that comes up when talking about collaboration with respect to education. Scriptovia.com takes a strong stance against plagiarism and cheating. It is NOT an essay mill or a cheating site; it is a service that allows students to advance their own work through collaboration and the sharing of ideas. Content is on the internet and in libraries; Scriptovia is not doing anything different by putting student’s content in a centralized place.

Scriptovia.com goes to great lengths to educate its users about plagiarism – that it is ethically wrong and that users can incur serious penalties if they are caught plagiarizing. Some students may not understand what it means to plagiarize. Scriptovia.com explains what the difference is between collaborating and plagiarizing. It instructs them how to properly site references in their work and how to correctly use Scriptovia.com so that they don’t accidentally plagiarize someone else’s work.

In addition, documents on Scriptovia.com are presented in HTML form within the browser. This allows services like TurnItIn.com to crawl all of our documents and track plagiarism against them.

In the end the responsibility is on the student not to plagiarize.