Use of Turnitin and Urkund anti-plagiarism software tools for plagiarism detection/similarity checks to the Doctoral theses: Indian experience.

India is one of the massive higher education systems in the world. The doctoral research output of plays a significant role as it is a primitive source and blueprint of research also growing fast pace it has a 24% increase in doctoral degree compare to the previous year. Anti-plagiarism software screening to theses text is boon to Indian universities and first instances it is preserving from copy verbatim the doctoral theses particularly in English against 234592 online theses in Shodhgang repository. But scanning of doctoral theses detecting plagiarism in Indian regional languages not completing effectively the cause is oblivious Indian languages scripts not covered in software. Software tools adopted for the plagiarism/similarity check it showed the diverse results of the similarity index for the same text of doctoral theses. Moreover, the court has observed that human judgment is needed to determine the copying rather than considering the software-generated report are the major issues in the present scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]