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Elsevier Faces Tough Questions About Its Business Model During Library and Publishing Conference

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And Elsevier, the for-profit scholarly communications giant that many librarians and researchers love to hate, will never go away. The daylong program kicked off with a riveting one-on-one conversation between Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA’s president, and Youngsuk “YS” Chi, the chairman of Elsevier. But we are profitable.”

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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Audiobooks offer the added convenience of being accessible even in situations where a print or digital ebook is not. Free and premium online courses Gone are the days when you need to go through a whole process in order to access paywalled knowledge. The Internet has made it super easy to self-educate.

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10 Online Tools That will Make Your Students Better Researchers By @anttooley

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Once they have the ample resource materials to back their arguments, students then need to “bag it and tag it” in preparation for the citations and references. You can use it freely, but many articles you find may be from paid academic databases such as JSTOR or Elsevier. Between research and referencing, referencing is worse.

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7 Good Academic Search Engines for Science Teachers

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While some of the resources you might come across are available for free most of the academic literature, as you know, is paywalled and you can either use your institutional affiliation or purchase the document yourself to access it. Scopus Scopus by Elsevier is a database of citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature.

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Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles

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If you are affiliated with an academic institution or organization you can use their login credentials for free access, otherwise, you will have pay to access paywalled materials. you can either directly access online content that’s openly available or click on a link for a library near you.

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Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides.

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Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Inclusive access has already gotten up to acronym status,” he said.

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7 Good Google Scholar Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers

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You can use WorldCat to search for a wide variety of resources including research theses, books, magazines, songs, maps, genealogical records, movies, and more. The way WorldCat works is simple: type in your search query in the site's search box and browse through the list of libraries that provide access to the material you search for.

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