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division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1277 journals and 6,131,218 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,955,839 articles free . With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals.

Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4422 journals in the directory. Currently 1690 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 323198 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

"Reading is a foundational skill for 21st-century learners. Guiding learners to become engaged and effective users of ideas and information and to appreciate literature requires that they develop as strategic readers who can comprehend, analyze, and evaluate text in both print and digital formats. Learners must also have opportunities to read for enjoyment as well as for information. School library media specialists are in a critical and unique position to partner with other educators to elevate the reading development of our nation's youth."

In celebration of Media Awareness Week (November 2-6, 2009) we are encouraging students, teachers, and the general public to create videos, digital stories, text, images or any digital media that showcases the different ways they are Media Literate.

Some excellent online tutorials including: Evaluate full-text scholarly content online - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/tutorials/scholarlycontentonline.html

"Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time."

tests, quizzes and even allowing students to annotate a document that you upload. Set up your quiz/test using true/false statements, longer text answers or students can draw the answer. You can setup a marking key meaning that the site will mark the answers for you and give instant data on who is correct. Your student can either have there own free account or they can access the material using a link. The site works across a wide range of devices.

I like SoundGecko. Easy to use, no download required.

Includes rubrics for qualitative analysis of informational and literary texts

Unpaywall.org lets searchers access full-text research papers from its index of 10 million legally loaded, open-access articles.

Dive into the rich world of Shakespeare with our full-text, interactive editions of his plays. myShakespeare replaces traditional footnotes with multimedia resources for the 21st-century student.

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"Recently, I've also been fascinated by the way the human mind interprets visual symbols. From doodling to reading and writing text, the brain is wired with a proclivity for visual sensory ability. In order to help students harness this power, we have been trying our hand at visual notes and sketchnoting in class. Then I decided to try some lessons with infographics."

Here's Joyce Valenza's take on the idea, with suggestions for collaboration with teachers and some other web 2.0 tools: http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2013/06/20/recording-kids-history-as-readers/

Is this what libraries will look like in ten years' time?

three stages of consumption and creation, informally dubbed "hanging out," "messing around" and "geeking out."