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The LexisNexis Academic Product Wiki will help you make the most of the content and features in LexisNexis Academic. It includes Academic Help guides showing you how to use the product, as well as Research Help guides with advice on doing research in news, business, industry, legal, and biographical materials. Use the Quick Links at left to go to the home page for a specific product or to browse the the wiki. See the Research Help link for a list of topical research guides, and the Article Index link for a complete list of all articles on the wiki.

Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.

'ScholarPlagiarism.Com, is the #1 online free academic plagiarism checker software for both students and researchers.'

"RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers."

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Search across 130 UK academic repositories and find documents most closely matched to your search terms and conceptually linked to your search results.

A curated academic search-engine, indexing 4,201 free ejournals in the arts & humanities.

"store, share, discover research - get more citations for all of the outputs of your academic research over 5000 citations of figshare content to date"

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PlagiarismDetection.org offers an innovative, user-friendly online tool that helps students and instructors with detection and prevention of academic plagiarism. Our sophisticated, yet easy-to-use detector conducts thorough and in-detail detection for plagiarism of a submitted document within a few minutes only. The plagiarism detection software is designed to leave no chances for plagiarized works and runs against all the available Internet resources, including websites, digital databases and online libraries (such as Questia, ProQuest, etc.). As a result, the program underlines the plagiarized parts of the text and indicates the original source the passage was initially taken from. Finally, PlagiarismDetection.org generates a full report, indicating the overall originality rating and the percentage of plagiarized materials in the submitted text. Customer has an opportunity to share plagiarism reports with other people by simply giving them the link, generated by our program.

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books.

"Currently making 1.67TB of research data available. Sharing data is hard. Emails have size limits, and setting up servers is too much work. We've designed a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds."

invisible web, hidden web, and deep web all refer to the same thing: a massive storehouse of online data that the search engines don't capture. That's because terabytes of information are buried in databases and other research resources. Searchable and accessible online but often ignored by conventional search engines, these resources exist by the thousands. Known in research circles as the invisible, deep, or hidden Web, this buried content is an estimated 500 times larger than the surface Web, which is estimated at over four billion pages. This mass of information represents a potent research resource, no matter what your discipline or interest. Below are some tools to help you mine it. Students and serious researchers may also find our collections of web directories and scholarly and academic research tools and strategies useful.

rclis is pronounced "reckless" and stands for research in computing, library and information science. rclis is a project to build a database about all current and current and past research in computing and library and information science. The data will be freely available for public and private, commercial and non-commercial purposes. It will serve as a testbed for digital library research. It will initially be released using the public metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), using the Academic Metadata Format (AMF). Other delivery mechanisms and metadata formats may be added as time permits.