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And Elsevier, the for-profit scholarly communications giant that many librarians and researchers love to hate, will never go away. The daylong program kicked off with a riveting one-on-one conversation between Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA’s president, and Youngsuk “YS” Chi, the chairman of Elsevier. It is a collaborative product,” she said.)
Unfortunately, a sizeable portion of this academic scholarship is locked behind paywalls thus restricting its access to those who can afford to pay. Several researchers and students are unable to afford the high costs required for access thus crippling their efforts to participate in the generation of quality knowledge.
This is the only service that can access the libraries like Elsevier/Scopus and Springer & Nature. This 2-in-1 solution seems pretty nice, especially knowing that it has access to the ProQuest databases. . This is certainly a huge factor when it comes to popularity.
Audiobooks offer the added convenience of being accessible even in situations where a print or digital ebook is not. Free and premium online courses Gone are the days when you need to go through a whole process in order to access paywalled knowledge. The Internet has made it super easy to self-educate.
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.
Mendeley started as an open-access research network, and some researchers balked when publishing giant Elsevier purchased the site in 2013. The service also features a number of tools for research management, including the ability to generate bibliographies, import papers from other software and allow users to annotate documents.
WorldCat enables you to access 'article citations with links to full text, authoritative research materials, one-of-a-kind documents and photos of local or historic significance, and digital versions of rare items that aren’t generally available to the public.' Access to ERIC is free and does not require any membership or subscription.
Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Inclusive access has already gotten up to acronym status,” he said.
If you are affiliated with an academic institution or organization you can use their login credentials for free access, otherwise, you will have pay to access paywalled materials. you can either directly access online content that’s openly available or click on a link for a library near you.
Many others now only publish their work in open access journals, and I intend to do the same. 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. I'm not the first academic who has made this stand and hopefully I won't be the last.
Libraries can and should be the epicenter of exploring, building and promoting these emerging techs, assuring the better futures and opportunities they offer are accessible to everyone. She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO.
You can use it freely, but many articles you find may be from paid academic databases such as JSTOR or Elsevier. If your school has a subscription for these paid services, your tuition should cover full access to these materials. Open access means free, so this is a great resource for cash-strapped students. DataElixir.
In contrast developing nations both produce and consume open education and scholarship, widely, due to economic needs, state and NGO support, and increasingly accessible technology. MAJOR BUSINESS SHIFT In major business news, publishers Elsevier and Pearson appear to be entering bankruptcy. Profits have collapsed.
Libraries can and should be the epicenter of exploring, building and promoting these emerging techs, assuring the better futures and opportunities they offer are accessible to everyone. She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO.
Which were very positive, including love for low cost, easy access, simulation games (for one class). In contrast developing nations both produce and consume open education and scholarship, widely, due to economic needs, state and NGO support, and increasingly accessible technology. Faculty panel from diverse Virginia institutions.
Libraries can and should be the epicenter of exploring, building and promoting these emerging techs, assuring the better futures and opportunities they offer are accessible to everyone. She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO.
The big four publishers - Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis and Springer - are making huge profits worldwide from the goodwill of academics. This is a growing trend as was evidenced recently when the entire editorial team on one of Elsevier's academic journal Lingua resigned over high price and lack of open access.
Increasing numbers of high profile academics (such as danah boyd and Martin Weller for example) are turning their backs on traditional methods of research dissemination, publishing their work exclusively on free-to-read open access platforms or on their blogs. Many have openly pledged to never write, edit or review for closed journals again.
Cutting off access to research results – either the seminal (foundational) research or the very latest findings published earlier this morning – is a certain way to kill this kind of endeavor. The overwhelming majority of research on cancer is owned by publishers of academic journals like Elsevier and Springer.
With technologies like AI taking the world by surprise, the ability to generate and access knowledge has become almost ubiquitous for anyone with an internet connection. In my experience, digitally proficient students are better equipped to access a vast range of learning resources and collaborate on a global scale.
Wikipedia is popular because it can be accessed from anywhere using a web enabled mobile phone. Blogging and open access journals are becoming the first choice of publishing for many academics and scholars. It is now the first port of call for many, supplanting Britannica and other previously popular reference books.
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. Education in the Courts. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” Very unfair! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” “Make MOOCs great again.” Is that possible?
Let’s not worry that there are many people who do not have access to electricity, let alone Internet, let alone digital devices.). ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.” ” Related? .”
” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” .” I mean, as long as data isn’t an issue and tech companies can build voice recognition software that recognizes languages other than English and accents other than Californian. Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech.
” “ University of California System is playing hardball with Elsevier in negotiations that could transform the way it pays to read and publish research,” says Inside Higher Ed. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Says Bug Opened Access to Private Photos.” ” Mark Zuckerberg is sorry. ” Phew.
The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. ” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. Meanwhile on Campus.
RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. ” Another remembrance via NPR : “‘Harold Believed In Me’: Remembering A College Access Advocate And NYC Schools Leader.” Sandbox has acquired Constructive Media. “FTSE giant RELX plots £100m? Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.
To have access to the full set of recordings, please purchase the archive set. Pat also wrote the entries about homeschooling for the International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition (Elsevier, 2010) and the online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015). Join the mailing list HERE to get the links needed to log into the Webinar.
To have access to the full set of recordings, please purchase the archive set. Pat also wrote the entries about homeschooling for the International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition (Elsevier, 2010) and the online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015).
Inside Higher Ed has more details on the University of California Berkeley ’s announcement that they’ll remove free online content rather than comply with a Justice Department demand to make it accessible to those with disabilities. “ Elsevier Wants CloudFlare to Expose Pirate Sites,” TorrentFreak reports.
” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” Speaking of Blackboard , here’s a press release about Blackboard Classroom: “New Solution from Blackboard Helps K–12 School Districts Make Learning More Engaging, Personalized and Accessible.”
A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. Go, School Sports Team! .”
Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. .” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.” ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech). See Roger Schonfeld’s response in The Scholarly Kitchen.
Via The San Jose Mercury News : “In a direct challenge to California ’s landmark law guaranteeing public access to beaches, Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla on Thursday filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that he should not be required to allow public access to Martins Beach in San Mateo County.”
” “ Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen ,” says TorrentFreak. The open-access publisher PLOS has a new CEO : Alison Mudditt. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who was due to speak to a sociology class Tuesday.” ” Education in the Courts. ” From the HR Department.
Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. ” Via Bill Fitzgerald : “Accessible tips for people to protect their privacy.” OOHLALA has raised $4 million from University Ventures, Joe Montana, Y Combinator, GoAhead Ventures, Osman Rashid, and Real Ventures. The “student engagement” platform has raised $4.12
Elsevier on “The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing ?” Officials at Northeastern say that it shows higher education should be more involved in training people for the artificial intelligence world.” ” More on the survey from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Or at least the year in ed-tech.
The for-profit Charlotte School of Law says it might get its access to federal financial aid restored. Elsevier has acquired bepress. As The Scholarly Kitchen’s Roger Schonfeld writes, “Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. ” ACT has invested $10.5
The program will focus on nonprofits that help refugees, which will be able to apply for fee waivers to access the Coursera course catalog.” Elsevier has acquired Hivebench. ” “ Law Schools Are Going Online to Reach New Students,” says The New York Times. Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).
The BBC reports that “ Cuba signs deal for faster internet access to Google content.” Campus Technology reports that “ Elsevier Debuts Metrics Tracking Journal Performance.” .” Also via Backchannel : “A Secret Ops AI Aims to Save Education.” ” Oh goody. Secret ops and AI.
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