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Home - PMC - NCBI. Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page. The National Bureau of Economic Research. Welcome · Digital Public Library of America. Top Ten Databases - Top Ten Databases to Start Your Undergraduate Research - Research & Technology Guides at University of Michigan Library. Ckan - The open source data portal software. Welcome to ARTstor. Far Left Robert Henri La Reina Mora, 1906 Colby College Museum of Art Top Center Winslow Homer Girl Reading, 1879 Colby College Museum of Art Bottom Center.

Welcome to ARTstor

Current subscribing institutions. DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART. Quality You Can Rely On. Rijksmuseum: Explore the collection. Research Databases & Archives. National Libraries. Library of Congress Home. Smithsonian. National Archives and Records Administration. The British Museum. The Bedford Research Room. Flow of Information. The Timeline: A look at linear time and information: from the occurrence of an event, era, social movement or discovery, ...to the documentation of evidence relating to this event, era, social movement, etc.to how the evidence is disseminatedand how researchers (and term paper writers) can find this documentation One Day - Days Later Articles appear in newspapers , and information is disseminated on TV, radio and web pages .

Flow of Information

Depending on the event or occurrence, this information may be prolific or sparse. For example: a general news search in Lexis Nexis lists 102 articles on the Exxon Valdez oil spill that appeared March 25 - March 31, 1989, just a few days after the event. A Week - Weeks Later Articles appear in popular magazines . Example: General magazine : Church, George J. Information Portals. Skills for Online Searching - ipl2 A+ Research & Writing. Learn how search syntax works Search syntax is a set of rules describing how users can query the database being searched.

Skills for Online Searching - ipl2 A+ Research & Writing

Sophisticated syntax makes for a better search, one where the items retrieved are mostly relevant to the searcher's need and important items are not missed. It allows a user to look for combinations of terms, exclude other terms, look for various forms of a word, include synonyms, search for phrases rather than single words. The main tools of search syntax are these: Working with data. Visual Literacy in an Age of Data. Statistician Hans Rosling inserts himself into charts during a TED talk and creates a narrative around the data.

Visual Literacy in an Age of Data

Shazna Nessa explains visual literacy and why it’s critical for data visualizers to take it seriously. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. —Henry David Thoreau. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources. Using primary sources. Repositories of Primary Sources. Home - Journalist's Resource Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center. Palmquist, Bedford Researcher 4e Student Center. Citation Styles - Citing Sources - Guides at Texas A&M University.

How to make presentations: techniques, handouts, display technologies. Synthesis. Research Trends: Special Focus, The Arts & Humanities. The Arts & Humanities include a diverse range of subjects, including many of the oldest intellectual pursuits such as Philosophy, Religion, Music, History, Art, Theatre and Literature.

Research Trends: Special Focus, The Arts & Humanities

These disciplines, along with fields such as Language, Linguistics and the History of Science, share a common concern with humanity and culture. This mutual interest means that we can expect much of the research in the Arts & Humanities to bridge disparate fields, in much the same way as modern scientific research increasingly links traditionally separate disciplines. One method for investigating this multidisciplinarity of research is to look at the citation links formed between journals when a paper published in one journal makes reference to a paper published in another. The Arts & Humanities landscape The Arts & Humanities as a subject area is only rarely the focus of bibliometric analyses, due to a common emphasis within the bibliometric community on citation analysis. Mapping journal context. How to Read an Assignment. Writing "Original” Papers § Harvard Guide to Using Sources. Some writing assignments you receive at Harvard will explicitly ask you to present an "original" thesis, claim, or idea.

Writing "Original” Papers § Harvard Guide to Using Sources

But even when the word "original" isn't mentioned, you should assume that your professor expects you to develop a thesis that is the product of your own thinking and not something drawn directly from a source and planted in your paper. Plagiarism Isnt Just an Issue for Students. On Quotes and Quoting. Plagiarism. You have something in common with the smartest people in the world.

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You see, everyone has ideas. Plagiarism detection in PowerPoint presentations. Googling the phrase "bullets imply no significant order" yields many jackpot matches with the Harvard-Florida work.

Plagiarism detection in PowerPoint presentations

These slides listed below may have, however, made an appropriate attribution of the original source, something that can be verified by examining the relevant slides. [PDF] Guidelines for Effective Visuals File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Bullets imply no significant order. *. Use numbers only to show rank or sequence. ?? Information Research. Research. Posters. Research. Lol My Thesis. Student Resources. Issues, Experts, Answers. In Context - Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Citelighter - The fully automated bibliography, research, citation, and internet highlighting tool. Citebite - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages. Ultimate Research Assistant - Generate Research Report.

The Web Credibility Project - Stanford University. MLA Research Exercises. How to Write an Original Paper. The need for media literacy in the digital age. How To Make Students Better Online Researchers. I recently came across an article in Wired Magazine called “ Why Kids Can’t Search “. School of Data - Evidence is Power. The legitimacy and usefulness of academic blogging will shape how intellectualism develops. Academic blogging has become an increasingly popular form, but key questions still remain over whether blog posts should feature more prominently in formal academic discourse.

The legitimacy and usefulness of academic blogging will shape how intellectualism develops

Jenny Davis clarifies the pros and cons of blog citation and sees the remaining ambiguity as indicative of a changing professional landscape. The wider scholarly community must learn how to grapple with these ethical and professional questions of rigor in standards of academic sourcing. In this post I attempt to tackle a complex but increasingly important question: Should writers cite blog posts in formal academic writing (i.e. journal articles and books)? To begin with full disclosure: I cite blog posts in my own formal academic writing. But not just any blog posts. Unintentional Knowledge - The Chronicle Review.

By Julio Alves I started teaching writing in graduate school 20-plus years ago, and it did not take me long to start looking forward to the pile of research papers at the end of the semester.

Unintentional Knowledge - The Chronicle Review

Unlike much of the writing earlier in the semester, done from assigned readings and carefully crafted prompts, the research papers tackled broad, open-ended questions. Students developed their own ideas and went to the library to research topics of their choice. It was exciting to see how they made sense of what they read. Monk - Search & annotation tools for handwritten manuscripts.

Be a Wikipedia Editor. From Wired How-To Wiki Let's get one thing out there first: Anybody can edit Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. In that sense, anyone can be a Wikipedia editor. However, to be trusted within the Wikipedia community requires a bit more effort. This article will show you how easy it is to get started and set you on the right path to being a Wikipedia editor.

You're looking at a Mediawiki wiki, and it works in the same way Wikipedia does. Make Your First Edit. Animated Information Graphics: Using Data and Motion to Reveal the Story. Ideas by Creativity Pool. Teaching Copyright. Copyright and Creative Commons.