{"id":23,"date":"2012-09-27T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pogo.lakesideschool.org\/library\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-09-27T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:54:14","slug":"academic-sources-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pogolives.com\/library\/2012\/09\/27\/academic-sources-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Sources for Everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love databases like JSTOR and Academic Search Premier; however, they are quite expensive.\u00a0 With a growing number of online courses like those provided by the Global Online Academy<\/a>, which hosts students from a variety of schools with varying levels of access, finding free scholarly sources is more important than ever.\u00a0 This month, Joyce Valenza wrote about this issue on her blog, NeverEndingSearch<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 In a post titled \u201cNew tricks for academics<\/a>,\u201d she discusses changes to Google Scholar<\/a>, a rediscovery of Microsoft\u2019s Academic Search<\/a>, and the connective power of Mendeley<\/a>.\u00a0 Today, a new academic source appeared in my inbox.\u00a0 According to the email,<\/p>\n

Academic Room<\/em><\/a> is an online platform that was conceived at Harvard as an independent initiative to facilitate multidisciplinary engagements among scholars and researchers around the world. Our <\/em>mission<\/em><\/a> is to democratize access to scholarly resources, which are organized in over 10,000 academic sub-disciplines. We share the conviction that easy and unimpeded access to quality educational resources should be a right and not a privilege. Our platform allows academics, researchers and students to create highly specialized portals for their subfields. These portals can be enriched with professional directories, scholar profiles, video lectures, bibliographies, journal articles, books, reviews, images, ancient manuscripts and audio recordings. \u00a0Scholars can now promote their work to a much larger audience than allowed by traditional channels.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even without registering, a user has access to a variety of multimedia.\u00a0 A quick look at the \u201cHistory of North America\u201d page reveals full text articles such as \u201cPsychological Warfare in Vietnam\u201d by James O. Whittaker and videos like \u201cMalcolm X interview at UC Berkeley (Oct. 11, 1963).\u201d\u00a0 A quick search for \u201ccivil war\u201d finds 752 items including lectures, books, reviews, and bibliographies.\u00a0 Academic Room<\/a> and other scholarly search portals are more than just repositories of information because they add the opportunity to create scholar profiles.\u00a0 As Valenza notes, there is great potential for them to \u201cbecome an interesting source for discovering experts, for assessing authority, and for identifying relationships among research and researchers.\u201d\u00a0 Not only are some of the walls coming down around scholarly sources, but these tools are also creating powerful paths for us to travel as we research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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