A recent memo in LSE about turnitin stated 2.2 JISC <Joint Information Systems Committee> is a national body responsible, among other things, for administering the UK HE <Higher Education> sector¹s use of the TurnItin plagiarism detection software, licensed from a US company, IParadigms. The School pays an annual subscription fee for its use of TurnItin based on fte <Full time Equivalent> student numbers: this was £4,690 for the 2006/07 session. LSE has about 8000 students (not sure what the full time equivalent is) You might also want to link to our project http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/Departments/owt/Research/sdaw/ Edgar Whitley <E.A.Whitley@lse.ac.uk> (by way of Jose-Carlos Mariategui)