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Reliable Turnitin alternatives for K12

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Turnitin has long been the go-to resource for uncovering plagiarism in student work, but there are reasons why that may not be a good choice for you or your students. This is the only service that can access the libraries like Elsevier/Scopus and Springer & Nature. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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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. Google Scholar. You can use it freely, but many articles you find may be from paid academic databases such as JSTOR or Elsevier. It can’t hurt to check, anyway.

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7 Good Google Scholar Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For us in academia Google scholar is a staple search engine. However, Google Scholar is not the be-all and end-all of academic search. In the list below I share some of the best academic search engines that are viable alternatives to Google Scholar. It is like Google Scholar but with way less features.

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7 Good Academic Search Engines for Science Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

After covering Google Scholar alternatives , I got an email from a science teacher asking for recommendations for science-focused academic search engines so I created the list below. Scopus Scopus by Elsevier is a database of citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature. billion of cited references."

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Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Unlike mainstream search engines such as Google and Bing, these tools are academically focused providing you with results that are most likely to be relevant to your search queries. Google Scholar Google Scholar is Google's search engine for academic and scholarly literature. Only you can see the articles in your library.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Google ’s chairman Eric Schmidt praises Trump. Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. “technologizing” the government. ” Phew!

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Department of Education is looking for nonprofit organizations to help support its #GoOpen campaign to nurture state and district take-up of ‘open’ educational resources ,” says EdWeek’s Market Brief. Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.”