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Academic search. Academic reference management software for researchers. Alexa the Web Information Company. Best Free Duplicate File Detector. If you are like me, you often find that you create duplicate files as you rename or use files in another context, or just backup more than you had intended.

Best Free Duplicate File Detector

Duplicate File Detectors help you find and/or delete these duplicates and regain the storage space they previously occupied. Judging from some of the recent comments, it would appear that some cautions should be noted before using this type of software. One might also note that with the cost per gigabyte rapidly decreasing (As of Oct 2011, 500 GB drives can be found for $39), redundancy is no longer such a bad thing. Don't ever just blindly run the program, find all the duplicates and then click "remove". This can be disastrous in the sense that even though filenames are the same, sometimes the content is different. Don't scan too much at once. Despite the best software, human intelligence may still have to be used.

OK, rant finished. Go straight to the Quick Selection Guide Auslogics Duplicate File Finder is another option. CiteSeerX. Connotea Maintenance. Memrise - the fun way to learn anything. Everyone's library. Fulltext. Help. Histoire Mondiale.

Home. Internet Citation Maker. Do you or your students have trouble citing online/Internet sources properly?

Internet Citation Maker

Simply link to this page on the course web page and save yourself and others valuable time. The citation maker supports APA, MLA, BibTex and Refer citation styles. Catalog your books online. Qu’est-ce qu’un moteur de recherche ? Cet article est une republication.

Qu’est-ce qu’un moteur de recherche ?

Pendant des années j’ai tourné autour de cette question, comment rendre compréhensible facilement pour des élèves ce qu’il y a derrière un moteur de recherche. Par un schéma bien sûr, mais comment le réaliser ? J’ai essayé plusieurs fois sans succès. En premier lieu, car je suis un piètre dessinateur malheureusement. Et aussi car je n’arrivais pas à exprimer ce processus clairement. Reference manager.

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A stub is an entry that did not yet receive substantial attention from editors, and as such does not yet contain enough information to be considered a real article. In other words, it is a short or insufficient piece of information and requires additions. 1 Definition A citation or bibliographic citation is a reference to a book, article, web page, or other published item with sufficient details to uniquely identify the item. Unpublished writings or speech, such as personal communications, are also sometimes cited. Bibliographic management and citation formatting are central to this. Search Engine Plugins. Search Engines: What they Are, How They Work, and Practical Suggestions for Getting the Most Out of Them. Search Engines What they Are, How They Work, and Practical Suggestions for Getting the Most Out of Them by Bruce Grossan (bruce@singu.lbl.gov)February 21, 1997 Today, in the S.F.

Search Engines: What they Are, How They Work, and Practical Suggestions for Getting the Most Out of Them

Bay area and in Silicon Valley, you are "hip" and "in" depending on which World Wide Web search engine you use, and the "hippest" one seems to change weekly. Those of us who have to get real work done using these engines just want to know which ones should we use when, and what we should know about how they work. First, some background is given, then there is a section on how search engines work (including hints on how to get your site found). Contents I. Get More Hits By Understanding Search Engines III. The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature. The Ultimate list of Free Stock Photos Sites for eLearning. Are you looking for free e-learning images, photos, cliparts or illustrations?

The Ultimate list of Free Stock Photos Sites for eLearning

In this post I will present you The Ultimate list of Free Stock Photos Sites for eLearning. If anyone of you have used one or more of the above Free Stock Photos Sites I will very much appreciate if he/she share with us his experience! If you know another Free Stock Photos Sites that is not included in the list I will highly appreciate if you leave a comment with a link! PublicDomainPictures.net is a repository for free public domain photos. You can download high quality photos, upload your own pictures, earn money to charity, get exposure and gain popularity and improve your photographic and graphic skills.FreeImages is not just another clipart graphic site!.... Web Reference Database - refbase. Zotero. Cet article décrit une application web 2.0 1 Introduction Zotero est une Extension Firefox qui permet de collecter, gérer, citer et exporter des références bibliographiques et des documents en texte intégral au format PDF.

Zotero

Il s'agit d'un logiciel libre (open source) multilingue, créé à L'Université George Mason en Virginie, appartenant à la famille des outils de gestion des références bibliographiques. Ces outils sont particulièrement utilisés par les étudiants de 3e cycle et les chercheurs pour gérer le fruit de leurs recherches documentaires et formater automatiquement leurs citations et leurs bibliographies. L’un des plus utilisés d’entre eux, EndNote, est un outil payant (nécessitant une installation en local).

Voir ici un comparatif des différents outils de gestion de références bibliographiques. La dernière version Zotero 2.0 beta intègre des fonctionnalités des plateformes sociales et du Web 2.0.