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Database checklist: Key academic research resources

Database checklist: Key academic research resources
(iStock) Members of the media do “research” by performing all sorts of tasks — pulling financial records, tracking down contact information for sources, scraping data from government websites. But another key skill is the ability to locate and review academic studies to strengthen and deepen stories. The Journalist’s Resource studies database distills top research, but there’s a much bigger universe of research out there. One common search strategy for finding academic research is trying a series of keywords in popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. While no particular strategy is perfect, establishing a checklist of key databases is essential. Access issue Of course, there is the problem of free versus paid access to research. News databases As part of your search strategy, you may want to also “pull the clips” on a topic, to see what the media has reported and what prior research has been cited publicly. A core checklist Below is a list of useful databases. Open databases

Free Document Search Engine, Read or Download PDF Manual, eBooks, Files - DocumentSearch.org 100 Search Engines For Academic Research Bestseller All Video On Demand: Rent or Buy Clothing & Accessories Major Appliances Arts, Crafts & Sewing Automotive Baby & Nursery Beauty & Grooming Books & Textbooks Collectible Coins Camera & Photo Cell Phones & Accessories Classical Music Computers, Tablets & Components Blu-Ray & DVD Electronic Components & Home Audio Entertainment Collectibles Video Games Other Gift Card Brands Grocery & Gourmet Food Patio, Lawn & Garden Health & Household Business & Industrial Supplies Jewelry Kindle Store Kitchen & Dining Magazines Miscellaneous Digital Music CDs & Vinyl Musical Instruments Office & School Supplies Pet Food & Supplies Shoes, Handbags, Wallets, Sunglasses Software Sports Collectibles Sports & Fitness Home Improvement Toys & Games Watches by TeachThught Staff General Need to get started with a more broad search? ResearchGate Access over 135 million publication pages and stay up to date with what’s happening in most professional fields. RefSeek Digital Library of the Commons Repository Microsoft Academic Search Google Trends Jurn

DICE. Difusion y Calidad Editorial de las Revistas Españolas de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Data.gov List of scientific journals The following is a partial list of scientific journals. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past. The list given here is far from exhaustive, containing only some of the most influential, currently publishing journals in each field. Note: there are many science magazines that are not scientific journals, including Scientific American, New Scientist, Australasian Science and others. For periodicals in the social sciences and humanities, see List of social science journals. General and multidisciplinary science[edit] see also Category:Multidisciplinary scientific journals Basic and physical sciences[edit] Astronomy and astrophysics[edit] Chemistry[edit] Earth and atmospheric sciences[edit] Materials science[edit] Mechanics[edit] Physics[edit] Life sciences[edit] Biology in general[edit] Agriculture[edit] Bioinformatics[edit] see List of bioinformatics journals Biophysics and biochemistry[edit] Botany[edit] Ecology[edit]

Millennials want a work-life balance. Their bosses just don’t get why. It may sound like a tiresome complaint, but a new study of nearly 10,000 workers in eight countries has found that baby boomers' attitudes toward work-life balance are having real-life consequences for younger workers. (Natalie Jennings and Tom LeGro/The Washington Post) Workers around the globe have been finding it harder to juggle the demands of work and the rest of life in the past five years, a new report shows, with many working longer hours, deciding to delay or forgo having children, discontinuing education, or struggling to pay tuition for their children. Why? A big reason is the economy: Professional workers in companies that shed employees in the Great Recession are still doing the work of two or more people and working longer hours. But another big reason? Close to 80 percent of millennials surveyed are part of dual-income couples in which both work full time. [How we helped a Millennial in a dead-end temp job find his dream job] [Why Millennial parents have it so much harder ]

Scientific journal For a broader class of publications, which include scientific journals, see Academic journal. The history of scientific journals dates from 1665, when the French Journal des sçavans and the English Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society first began systematically publishing research results. Over a thousand, mostly ephemeral, were founded in the 18th century, and the number has increased rapidly after that.[1] Articles in scientific journals can be used in research and higher education. Articles tend to be highly technical, representing the latest theoretical research and experimental results in the field of science covered by the journal. Types of articles[edit] There are several types of journal articles; the exact terminology and definitions vary by field and specific journal, but often include: In addition to the above, some scientific journals such as Science will include a news section where scientific developments (often involving political issues) are described. Cost[edit]

What if you could replace performance evaluations with four simple questions? istockphoto Everyone loves to hate performance evaluations, and with good reason: Research has shown them to be ineffective, unreliable and unsatisfactory for seemingly everyone involved. They consume way too much time, leave most workers deflated and feel increasingly out of step with reality. A once-a-year, backwards-looking conversation with the boss hardly fits our forward-looking, instantly updated world. Yet despite all that frustration, many companies do little to change them, thinking there are few alternatives. That hasn't been the case at Deloitte. Deloitte's new approach, which it has piloted among roughly 10 percent of employees so far, would do away with "cascading objectives," those nonsensical attempts to create similar goals for everyone in the organization. Given that Deloitte advises many of the world's biggest companies, one can only hope the internal move will have a domino effect across many more workplaces. 1. 2. 3. 4. That's it. Read also:

Translation Studies Bibliography Translation Studies (sometimes also called: Translation and Interpreting Studies) comprises the discipline dealing with transfer and mediation, containing aspects of intra- and interlingual translation, intercultural communication, adaptation, interpreting, localization, multimedia translation, language mediation, terminology and documentation. In recent years, Translation Studies has demonstrated that it has established itself as a mature academic discipline. We welcome you to explore the broad range of publications in this field, using the innovative and advanced Translation Studies Bibliography. The database is continuously updated and now contains approx. 40,000 annotated records. The bibliography is enhanced by a thesaurus and provides CrossRef DOIs, where available, for easier interlinking. Starting from 2002, the original TSB partners were KU Leuven, the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) and John Benjamins Publishing Company. DOI:

List of academic databases and search engines From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ substantially in terms of coverage and retrieval qualities.[1] Users need to account for qualities and limitations of databases and search engines, especially those searching systematically for records such as in systematic reviews or meta-analyses.[2] As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems, see: the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposesthe article about bibliographic databases for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles. Operating services[edit] [edit] [edit]

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