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12 Fabulous Academic Search Engines

12 Fabulous Academic Search Engines | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
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Academic search engines are the companions of a good research. We have to find everything that's going on in our topic, with no excuses.

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Twelve academic search engines to support your literature reviews.

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Search engines that most people don't know about/don't use. Very useful for any university of college student.

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Going beyond Google

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How Twitter will revolutionise academic research and teaching

How Twitter will revolutionise academic research and teaching | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
Social media is becoming increasingly important in teaching and research work but tutors must remember, it's a conversation not a lecture, says Ernesto Priego

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Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
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And the scientific community at large (non USA)?

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Science research: three problems that point to a communications crisis

Science research: three problems that point to a communications crisis | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
Retraction is exploding, replicability of research diminishing, and our measure of journal quality is farcical, argues Curt Rice
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"Science is currently rated by a process that is itself unscientific, subjective, and secretive"!? Wow!

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Top Two RDR Articles on Qualitative Research Design in 2012

Top Two RDR Articles on Qualitative Research Design in 2012 | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
In 2012, Research Design Review published 10 articles pertaining to qualitative research design.  These 10 posts have been compiled into one volume titled, "Qualitative Research Design: Selected ar...

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Very useful comments. A must read.

Antonio Figueiredo's curator insight, February 10, 3:17 AM

In 2012, Research Design Review published ten articles on qualitative research design, compiled into a small volume titled, “Qualitative Research Design: Selected Articles from Research Design Review published in 2012.”

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Research Support - The University of Queensland Library

Research Support - The University of Queensland Library | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
Research support available to you
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Material importantíssimo. A ver e ler!

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Eigenfactor

Eigenfactor: ranking and mapping scientific knowledge
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A must see for your research.

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Scimago Journal & Country Rank

"The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database."

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An unavoidable tool.

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Visual Science: - Series - The New York Times

Visual Science: - Series - The New York Times | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
Articles in the Visuals: series from The New York Times.
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Visualização da informação: uma das formas mais poderosas de construir conhecimento. Série de artigos no The New York Times.

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1209 The Practice of Writing

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Tomorrow's Professor - Desk-Top Faculty Development, One Hundred Times A Year

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The Importance of Developing Writing Rituals

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"When you meditate daily, meditation becomes integrated into the core of your life.

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The same is true with writing. When you are out of practice, the blank sheet is daunting. However, when writing has become a central part of your life, words and ideas tend to flow-if not effortlessly, at least more smoothly."

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Visual Science - Map of Knowledge - NYTimes.com

Visual Science - Map of Knowledge - NYTimes.com | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
Electronic data searches in which users moved from one scientific journal to another have been used to create “a map of worldwide scientific activity.”
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User generated content at its best. Luís Bettencourt at LANL belongs to the team.

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Maps of Citations Uncover New Fields of Scholarship - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Maps of Citations Uncover New Fields of Scholarship - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
A powerful new way to analyze data about how often and where academic research is cited breaks down walls among scholars.
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Counting citations is a very primitive way of measuring the impact of academic research.

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altmetrics: a manifesto – altmetrics.org

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"As the volume of academic literature explodes, scholars rely on filters to select the most relevant and significant sources from the rest. Unfortunately, scholarship’s three main filters for importance are failing."

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Será que a contagem de citações é um método válido para determinar a importância de um artigo em particular?

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Harzing.com - Research in International Management, Products & Services for Academics

Harzing.com - Research in International Management, Products & Services for Academics | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
Anne-Wil Harzing is Professor in International Management and Associate Dean Research at the University of Melbourne.
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Publish or Perish. Up to date, complete, a must be in every researcher computer.

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12 Fabulous Academic Search Engines

12 Fabulous Academic Search Engines | Scientific research world | Scoop.it
Francisco Restivo's insight:

Academic search engines are the companions of a good research. We have to find everything that's going on in our topic, with no excuses.

Antonio Figueiredo's curator insight, February 2, 7:42 PM

Twelve academic search engines to support your literature reviews.

EmilieSoleil's curator insight, February 12, 11:56 AM

Search engines that most people don't know about/don't use. Very useful for any university of college student.

Pati Morris's curator insight, February 14, 11:03 AM

Going beyond Google