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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

ERIC offers a handy feature that enables you to filter your search by 'Full text' and 'peer-review' enabling to access and download research papers for free. Elsevier Elsevier is another reputable academic publisher that offers various open access resources for researchers, authors, and academic institutions.

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

Edsurge

Its main offering is TAO, an open-source platform that anyone can download for free to create and deliver tests. Among them: the New York City of Department of Education, Elsevier, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and PARCC, the organization involved in delivering Common Core assessments.

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Learning with 'e's

Taylor and Francis also offer individual online articles for download at just £21 per copy. A slightly better deal is Elsevier's Computers in Education journal which at 8 issues a year works out at just £34 per issue for a personal subscription. That's more than £38 (£67) for an issue, each of which is on average 175 pages in length.

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7 Good Google Scholar Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers

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WorldCat also features open source e-books, articles, and downloadable audiobooks and photos. ScienceDirect ScienceDirect is a platform by Elsevier that offers access to a huge collection of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters including open access materials.

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Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles

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WorldCat also features open source e-books, articles, and downloadable audiobooks and photos. While some of the resources on ResearchGate are available for free download in full-text format, others are not and you can only access their abstract. You can use Google Books to 'read, download, or preview books on Google Books.

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7 Good Academic Search Engines for Science Teachers

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Scopus Scopus by Elsevier is a database of citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature. WorldCat also features open source e-books, articles, and downloadable audiobooks and photos. Scopus covers academic research from various subject areas including science, humanities, arts, social sciences, medicine, and technology.

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Live Wednesday, March 7th - Panel Discussion of Seth Godin’s Stop Stealing Dreams

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In his 30,000 word manifesto (information on free download and discussion options here ), Seth Godin imagines a different set of goals. He explains, “School was invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s.