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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

The sheer volume of data and information you come across online is overwhelming to say the least. Some of these platforms include: Eric, SpringerOpen, Elsevier, SAGE Open, JSTOR, ScienceOpen, Digital Library of the Commons, Directory of Open Access Journals, and many more.

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ACT’s Latest Act: Investing in an Open-Source Assessment Startup

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That requires data and data analytics, and we are building our own internal capabilities. But each platform might use its own proprietary data format that is incompatible with others. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Roorda said the investment is more than $1 million.

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Will 'Publish or Perish' Become 'Clicks or Canned'? The Rise of Academic Social Networks

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Mendeley started as an open-access research network, and some researchers balked when publishing giant Elsevier purchased the site in 2013. One concern I don’t think people are talking about is how these sites are tracking the most popular topics and showing that data to users. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.”.

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

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You can use it freely, but many articles you find may be from paid academic databases such as JSTOR or Elsevier. You may find some useful material in this free website that makes a weekly collection of the best data science news, resources, and inspirations from around the web. It can’t hurt to check, anyway. DataElixir.

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7 Good Academic Search Engines for Science Teachers

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"Science.gov makes it possible for users to search over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia.

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

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And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). Who Owns Student Data? Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks.

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