

These ports are for outgoing HTTP traffic only.

To connect to the Global Reference Database, ensure that the Blackboard Application servers are allowed to access the following host and ports. Access to the database is enabled by default. The Global Reference Database allows institutions to search their own data repository as well as many other data repositories. Blackboard does not claim ownership of submitted papers. They submit their papers voluntarily and agree not to delete papers in the future. Students are not required to submit papers to this database. Students are free to select the option to check their papers without submitting them to the Global Reference Database. It is separate from each institution's internal database, where all papers are stored by each corresponding institution. The SafeAssign Global Reference Database is a separate database where students voluntarily submit copies of their papers to help prevent plagiarism. Internet: SafeAssign searches across the broader internet for matching text using an internal search service.ProQuest ABI/Inform Journal Database: More than 3,000 publication titles, 5 million documents, and over 200 topical categories from the 1970s to present time and covering topics from Advertising to Women's Studies.Global Reference Database: Contains over 59 million papers volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism.Institutional document archives: Contains all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions.Student submissions to SafeAssign are compared against several sources: Results returned from each service are further processed based on both the weight returned by the search service and comparative weighting by the SafeAssign algorithm, which determines the result set to be returned in the Originality Report. This proprietary algorithm analyzes submission text and optimizes the words and terms to be searched against multiple data sources. SafeAssign is based on a unique text-matching algorithm capable of detecting exact and inexact matching between a submitted paper and source material. Looking for the latest release notes? View release notes for SafeAssign.
