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Amanda French

http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/tools/online-databases.html - 1 views

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Mahrokh Akhavan

Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.) - 0 views

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    The idea of open access to scholarly journals seems to be a big debate and this article talks about how publishers make millions of dollars off of research and peer reviews that are done for free. It also talks about Aaron Swartz who led the movement for allowing access to journals by basically "stealing" them and sharing them.
Sara Simpkins

The Ultimate Source for Research - 0 views

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    The ultimate guide for students who don't want to carry around their text books but still enjoy marking them up. With over 75,000 textbooks, Questia is an explosive host of information for the weary researcher. I really enjoy its easy navigation, ability to add comments in books, and wide range of topics. For an annual price of $100, I cut down on my book expenses and killed some book clutter in my apartment.
Claire Madison

Different ways to use research methods - 1 views

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    Helps understand different research methods and might help you understand how to make your research different.
Laura Vazquez

10 tips for smarter, more efficient Internet searching - TechRepublic - 0 views

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    This article goes over tips that can be helpful when doing research online. I think some of these were discussed in class but some of them are new too.
Maximum Sullivan

Support Grows for Open Access to Science Research - 0 views

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    Good article on federally funded research to be freely accessible over the internet. It's the second article on the page.
Rebecca Lee

Using Diigo to Collect, Highlight, Annotate, and Share Web Pages - Part 1 - 0 views

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    An interesting article that shows how you can use Diigo effectively to collect information and bits of information from many different webpages in an organized way. The article presents some questions to think about when doing web research and how we can use tools such as Diigo to aid in gathering a large amount of information in one place. It also explains more in depth what Professor French has told the class regarding Diigo.
Amanda French

First Look at Aaron Swartz Documentary 'The Internet's Own Boy' - 0 views

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    A couple of people wanted to do research on Aaron Swartz, who was arrested under the Computer Fraud Act for unauthorized use of MIT's network to download "all of JSTOR," presumably for rerelease onto the open web. Here's an article about a forthcoming documentary on him.
Ellie Cattle

Scientific research: Looks good on paper | The Economist - 0 views

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    An article about a recent incident in China where a group of people were found to be selling fake scholarly articles to academics and producing fake medical journals for sale.
Xiaotong Liu

Open-source software projects need to improve - 0 views

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    researchers says that 0pen-source software projects need to improve vulnerability-handling practices,
Jimin Kwon

Mason Interlibrary Loan Services - 1 views

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    "Interlibrary Loan helps you obtain research materials you need that are not available from George Mason University Libraries or Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) libraries." I believe this is a definitely helpful webpage for all of us.
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    Absolutely. Essential.
Amanda French

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine - 0 views

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    Don't forget about the Internet Archive and especially the Wayback Machine in your research -- lots of good free stuff here, and you can look at what websites looked like years ago.
Natasha Taliferro

Africa's "Father of the Internet" - 0 views

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    Nii Quaynor, Africa's "Father of the Internet" is responsible for establishing the continents internet capabilities. Quaynor, the first African to be on the board of ICANN, was recently inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.
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    Natasha, Quaynor would be a terrific person to research for your presentation and final project. Very interesting, and I had never heard of him before.
Nathan Reinecke

20 Extensions Every Chrome User Must Try - 0 views

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    Mostly useful for people who use Chrome, but most of these undoubtedly have analogues or versions in Firefox. A lot of good extensions for news, productivity and research, plus some stuff that's just plain cool.
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    While this website is helpful, many of the apps do not seem to be useful to everyday browsing, excluding a few in the Education section of the article. Granted, I still went and downloaded a lot of those apps because, as Nathan said above me, they're pretty cool.
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    Browser extensions are definitely neat -- all the browsers have them now, pretty much. Firefox was the first browser to be extensible like this, so there tend to be a lot of extensions available for it. Zotero, which we're going to learn about next week, started out as a Firefox extension. I thought about defining "extension" in core concepts, but it's maybe a little more advanced than that. Extensions (also called "add-ons" and "plugins") are basically little apps that "plug in" to a big app.
Cameron Wall

Understanding the Zotero Pane - Citation Managers - Subject and Course Guides at Washin... - 0 views

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    Even though Prof. French gave a rather in detail tutorial of Zotero in class, here's a visual guide in case you get lost!
Talia Wujtewicz

You can download the entire Wikipedia - 0 views

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    You can download Wikipedia and only have it take up about 9 GB of space on your computer. It would definitely come in handy if you need to do research but don't have Internet access.
Jimin Kwon

Zotero Tutorial - 1 views

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    A quick Zotero tutorial video for both Mac and Windows users
emarmoran

Michael S. Hart - 0 views

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    Michael S. Hart was one of the founding members of The Gutenberg Project. He recently passed away and this is the link to his obituary.
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    Thanks, Erin! He'd be a good guy to do research on for the presentation and final project.
Jonathan Carmona

Wikipedia and Films Success - 3 views

http://www.livescience.com/39075-wikipedia-blockbuster-prediction.html This article talks about how some researchers look at the views of the Wikipedia pages for upcoming films each year to predic...

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