lagiarism, or the appropriation of ideas and works already published, is not new. History is full of complaints and anecdotes. What is new is the dimension that is taking with new electronic support, and specifically with Internet. Plagiarism on Internet goes on more with the move of total documents to a web page, being stablished on first as own (what is called framing); the appropriateness of resources or directories; or even the creation of similar domains to attract new users, could be understood as plagiarism.
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> > To identify plagiarism, mechanisms are been developed in different countries, most of them arise in an academic environment. (Turnitin, Scam, Chelk). There are also other initiatives being developed like "Office of Research Integrit" (ORI), or even styles like the "Uniform Requirements for manuscript Submitted to Biomedical Journals" make a special mention about plagiarism.
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> > Another aspect is the legal side. In US We have the "Digital Millenium", The "Copyright act" or the European Directive 2001/29/CE of may 22th of 2001. To many libraries is the limit on the traditional role that these centres are developing in the diffusion of the information.
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> > Nowadays there are not many solutions to stop plagiarism, although we propose some initiatives like including information about web pages plagiarism and legislation on pages, Suppress any kind of plagiated pages (framing, copies of directories...) from directories made by libraries or to inform on pages about mechanisms and initiatives prepared to detect the plagiarism on Internet.
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