Via the university library, lecturers have the opportunity to gain access to the plagiarism detection system. OURIGINAL to receive.

OURIGINAL is a software programme that compares the text passages of a submitted paper with a large number of other sources and highlights questionable passages as a result. This means that special attention can be paid to these passages when analysing the work.

In order to use OURIGINAL, you must register as a user of this software. To do this, please fill in the Registration and send them to . You will then receive a separate OURIGINAL e-mail address which you can pass on to your students. They can send their work in .doc, .odt or .pdf format to this e-mail address.

After the thesis has been checked, you as a lecturer will receive an email to your regular university email address. In the e-mail, you will receive a link to the review protocol, in which all questionable passages of the submitted work are marked. The submitted work is stored in a kind of "inbox" to which only the respective lecturer has access.

Important instructions for the use of OURIGINAL can be found in this Instructions.

For further information please use the official help page of OURIGINAL or contact .