What is a Turnitin paper view request?
When students at Oxford Brookes submit their work to Turnitin, their papers are stored in an institutional repository, which is separate from the repositories of other institutions. Papers submitted to the Oxford Brookes repository will be checked against repositories of other institutions and vice versa. Turnitin uses these repositories to check for similarity and show matches in an originality report.
However, if a match is shown with a paper in another repository, Turnitin can only reveal the matching passage, and cannot immediately show you the whole document. This is because the work is protected by Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and the host institution must first grant a request for access to the whole paper. Requests made to another institution to view a student paper submitted through Turnitin are called Turnitin paper view requests.
What do paper view requests look like?
If a tutor from another institution submits a request to view a paper submitted to your course, you will receive an email asking you to grant access. The email looks as shown below.
Click the pink spots for an explanation of the information it contains:
Figure 1. Email from Turnitin with a paper view request. Click the purple spots for an explanation of the information it contains. View full size image.
How should I respond to the request?
You must ignore it and take no action.
How can I stop receiving these requests?
You can filter these emails out in Gmail using our template. With the Gmail filter, those emails will skip your inbox and will be saved in a Gmail label for quick retrieval.