Plagiarism tools check whether text is copied. Solas checks whether the evidence is real — verifying that student references exist, are accurate, and actually support the claims they're cited for. Before submission, and without collecting a single student identifier.
Within the first weeks, your library and academic-integrity teams see verified-citation rates, the most common referencing issues by module, and the first unverifiable or retracted sources flagged — all aggregate, all before submission.
References can be fabricated, broken, or mismatched — from AI tools or honest mistakes. The surface looks academic; the evidence underneath may not hold.
Most UK students now use generative AI in their studies. The question is no longer whether they use it — it's whether the evidence in their work is real.
Studies suggest around half of AI-generated academic references are fabricated or materially incorrect.
Plagiarism tools check whether text is copied. Almost nothing checks whether the sources are real, accurate, and correctly used. That is the gap Solas fills.
We've put Solas inside a live Moodle course so you can see exactly what a marker sees. Two essays are already submitted — one with genuine, verifiable references, one with fabricated ones. Open the grading page and watch Solas tell them apart.
Log in as the marker, open "Solas Demo — Citation Integrity", and view the assignment's submissions. Each essay carries a Solas badge: the clean paper scores high and passes; the fabricated one is flagged for review, with a report listing every citation Solas couldn't stand up. You can also sign in as a student and submit your own essay to watch it get scored live.
marker, password SolasDemo2026! · see the integrity badges and reportsstudentA, password SolasDemo2026! · already submitted a clean essaystudentB, password SolasDemo2026! · already submitted a fabricated-citation essayHosted demo — the site may take a few seconds to wake on the first visit.
Checking whether references are complete, accurate, real, traceable, and properly connected to the claims they support. Solas works in three layers: students capture and verify sources as they research, audit the citation structure of a draft before they submit, and give your teams an aggregate, anonymised view of where cohorts struggle.
Solas checks whether a cited source actually exists — matching title, author, year, DOI, publisher, and URL against trusted databases such as CrossRef, OpenAlex, Google Books, and Unpaywall. References that can't be verified are flagged for review, never auto-accused.
Most bad references aren't deliberate — a missing author or date, the wrong year, the PDF cited instead of the landing page, a malformed DOI. Solas flags these so students fix them before a marker ever sees them.
Every in-text citation should appear in the bibliography, and every bibliography entry should be cited. Solas flags entries that are never used, and in-text citations with no matching reference — instantly.
Structured signals rather than a single verdict: whether a source is peer-reviewed, government-published, from a recognised publisher, a think tank, news, a blog, a commercial page, or unknown. Transparent indicators staff and students can reason about.
The most advanced check, deliberately cautious: Solas highlights places where a claim may not be backed by the source it cites, and prompts the student to review. It identifies possible mismatches — it never decides whether an argument is correct.
Anonymised, module-level patterns — common referencing issues, source-type reliance, verification rates, and improvement between draft and final. It helps libraries and study-skills teams target support, with no student identifiers and no essay content.
Solas ships with Cite Them Right Harvard today, with APA, OSCOLA, MLA and IEEE on the roadmap. It supports student judgement by checking citation quality and source integrity — without writing the essay, grading the argument or replacing academic feedback.
Not a replacement for the tools you already run — the missing layer beneath them. Solas checks the one thing they don't: whether the evidence is real.
Turnitin checks copied text at submission. Solas checks reference accuracy and source verification, formatively, before submission. Not a replacement — the missing layer beneath it.
Reference managers store sources. Solas verifies whether those sources are real, accurate, and correctly used — at the point of citing.
Grammarly improves the sentence. Solas verifies the evidence behind it.
Generators create a reference from metadata — which can be incomplete or wrong. Solas checks whether that reference can be trusted.
Academic integrity tooling can become surveillance infrastructure very quickly if you're not careful. Solas was designed from day one so that surveillance is structurally impossible, not just policy-prohibited.
The data your institution sees is genuinely aggregate. No student names. No student IDs. No browser fingerprints. No IP addresses. No essay content. Ever.
No software to install. No infrastructure to maintain. Students keep using the same Solas they already have.
Per-student annual licence keyed to your institution's domain. Standard university procurement, GDPR DPA, security questionnaire — all available pre-signature.
Your IT department circulates a short institutional code via email or VLE. Students paste it into Solas Settings; their installs upgrade to the institutional build, opt-in to anonymous module-level reporting.
Within the first weeks, your library and academic-integrity teams see verified-citation rates, the most common referencing issues by module, and the first unverifiable or retracted sources flagged — aggregate, before submission.
Per-student annual. The same price every university pays. No tier games, no enterprise mark-up.
£6 /student /year
billed annually, capped at your enrolled headcount
For comparison: Turnitin licences typically cost UK universities £5–£8 per student per year. Solas adds the layer Turnitin doesn't — verifying that the references behind the work are real, accurate, and correctly used.
15-minute demo. We'll show the dashboard on synthetic but realistic institutional data, walk through the privacy architecture, and answer whatever your Information Governance team wants to ask.
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