Discovered through Ghana's CARLIGH consortium, DrillBit gave Garden City University a single platform for similarity checking, AI detection, and grammar analysis — at a cost that made sense where separate subscriptions did not.
Garden City University in Kennyase-Kumasi, Ghana was looking to subscribe to a plagiarism detection platform. Through the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH), DrillBit was proposed to the institution — primarily on the basis of its cost-effectiveness relative to other available tools.
The library's decision ultimately came down to value: instead of paying for three separate subscriptions — for similarity checking, AI detection, and grammar — DrillBit delivered all three in a single platform at a moderate price.
The librarian's case for DrillBit was straightforward: it delivers what would otherwise require three separate subscriptions — similarity score, AI use rate, and grammar results — all from a single check.
DrillBit checks submissions for matching content and surfaces a similarity index — the core requirement for any plagiarism detection workflow and the baseline for research integrity checks across the institution.
Alongside similarity, DrillBit generates an AI use rate for each submission — identifying the extent to which AI-generated content is present. Previously this would have required a separate tool and a separate subscription.
DrillBit also generates grammar analysis as part of the same report. Rather than subscribing to a separate grammar tool, the institution gets writing quality feedback alongside originality checks in one place.
DrillBit was integrated with both the university's Moodle LMS and its institutional repository. Research theses and projects uploaded to the repository are indexed — so when new submissions are checked, they can be cross-referenced against the institution's own archive of prior work, not just external databases.
"With DrillBit, you get all three in one — similarity, AI detection, and grammar. That is the good news about DrillBit. The customer service is very prompt. At any point in time that you have a challenge, they are always at the door waiting to help you. I would encourage all librarians all over the world to subscribe to DrillBit."
Garden City University is an academic institution in Kennyase-Kumasi, Ghana. Its library, led by Electronic Resource Librarian Georgina Ao Atoproke, discovered DrillBit through the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) and adopted it as its primary platform for plagiarism detection, AI use checking, and grammar analysis.
The institution's Moodle LMS and institutional repository are both integrated with DrillBit, giving the library comprehensive coverage over new and archived research submissions.