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Another great academic search engine for research students

Another great academic search engine for research students | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Microsoft Academic (MA) is another great educational resource we add to our list of academic search engines. Unlike mainstream search engines that are keyword-based, MA uses a different search algorithm, it uses what is known as semantic inference to identify your intent and consequently provide you with relevant search results ..."

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Five handy tools for research students

Five handy tools for research students | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Being a scholar entails doing a lot of research, readings, and writing of papers. Thankfully, technology can be of tremendous help in the research process. There are a wide variety of web tools and mobile applications that facilitate researchers work and  help them communicate and collaborate with the research community and easily share and disseminate research findings ..."

  1. CiteULike
  2. EasyBib
  3. Mendeley
  4. Zotero
  5. Paperpile
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Some very good research methodology textbooks for research students 

Some very good research methodology textbooks for research students  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here is a collection of some good research methodology textbooks to help refine your research skills ..."

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Nine helpful guides on academic writing for research students and educators 

Nine helpful guides on academic writing  for research students and educators  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The theme of this week’s book collection is academic writing and to this end I curated for you this useful list. I am principally addressing research students and academics but the insights and tips from these books are also relevant to anyone keen on improving their writing style ..."

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An interesting infographic featuring twelve good Chrome extensions for research students (Educational Technology and Mobile Learning) 

An interesting infographic featuring twelve good Chrome extensions for research students (Educational Technology and Mobile Learning)  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it
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An interesting infographic featuring 12 good Chrome extensions for research students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

An interesting infographic featuring 12 good Chrome extensions for research students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The visual below is based on a post we shared here a few days ago. It features a number of important Chrome extensions to help students research during the different stages in a research process. We arranged these extensions under four main headings: Search and curation (Diigo Web Collector, Google scholar, Evernote Web Clipper), Reading and annotation  (Readability, DocHub, Notable PDF), Taking notes ( Google Keep and Note Anywhere), Bibliography and citations (EasyBib, Cite This for Me, Zotero Connector) ..."

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Ten good academic search engines for teachers and students

Ten good academic search engines for teachers and students | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"If you haven't already seen it, here is a visual featuring what we believe are some of the best academic search engines for teachers and research students ..."

  1. https://scholar.google.com/
  2. https://www.eric.ed.gov
  3. http://www.virtuallrc.com/
  4. http://www.citeulike.org/
  5. http://jurn.org/#gsc.tab=0
  6. https://academic.microsoft.com/home
  7. https://www.loc.gov/
  8. https://www.refseek.com/
  9. https://www.sciencedirect.com/
  10. https://www.academia.edu/
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A good interactive digital curation tool for teachers and students 

A good interactive digital curation tool for teachers and students  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Webjets is a new information management tool we discovered through a post by Larry Ferlazzo. Webjets provides you with an intuitive platform where you can collect, save and organize digital content ..."

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Here is a new digital curation web tool for teachers and students 

Here is a new digital curation web tool for teachers and students  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Webjets is a new information management tool we discovered through a post by Larry Ferlazzo. Webjets provides you with an intuitive platform where you can collect, save and organize digital content ..."

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Here is a useful poster to help research students with APA citation

Here is a useful poster to help research students with APA citation | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it
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Ten great academic search engines for research students

Ten great academic search engines for research students | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Niche-specific content is usually not readily available through regular generic search engines. One example is the academic and scholarly content. While running a  search query about an academic topic through a generic search engine such as  Google would probably render fairly decent results, it, however, usually takes digging into so much fluff before finally landing on relevant results ..."

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