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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. It’s organized by the nonprofit Ithaka , which delivers research and strategic advice to libraries, publishers and other members of the academic enterprise. There is no way to lock in curiosity,” he said.

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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Some good platforms that offer free ebooks and audiobooks include: Internet Archive, LibriVox, Open Library, Open Culture, Bookbub, and many more. The sheer volume of data and information you come across online is overwhelming to say the least.

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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. The real value of this free reference manager is in the publicly shared libraries of other users. In fairness, you should likewise share your own library to benefit others.

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Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles

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Almost all of these tools provide extra features beside online search including, for instance, the ability to create personal libraries where you can save and organize your books, automated citations generation , social networking with other researchers, collaboration, and many more. Only you can see the articles in your library.

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7 Good Academic Search Engines for Science Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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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7 Good Google Scholar Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers

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WorldCat WorldCat is one of the largest online library catalogs that connect thousands of libraries collections into a single platform allowing you to search various libraries from a single search box. 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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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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