According to a report (swe) from the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (HSV) the most common cases dealt with by the disciplinary boards at Sweden's universities are cheating by plagiarism. It is a serious problem that has increased the last few years, perhaps most because of the extended possibilities of downloading educational related material from the Internet.

Many universities have acknowledged the problem of plagiarism and have taken measures against it, such as using URKUND .

URKUND provides a service that can be used to deal with this problem. The Service has been developed in co-operation with the Pedagogical Department at Uppsala University and consists of a system for submission of papers, reports, essays and other written material. By using URKUND as a student you make sure that no one can use your work for plagiarism purposes. The system has both a preventive effect and controlling function and this makes it very difficult for your work to be illicitly used without it being detected.