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Information Exploration: Becoming a Savvy Scholar
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This freshman course explores the scientific publication cycle, primary vs. secondary sources, and online and in-print bibliographic databases; how to search, find, evaluate, and cite information; indexing and abstracting; using special resources (e.g. patents) and “grey literature” (e.g. technical reports and conference proceedings); conducting Web searches; and constructing literature reviews.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Barbera, Patty
Locknar, Angie
Sadoway, Donald
Date Added:
09/01/2006
Thesis Research Design Seminar
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This seminar is for students who plan to write a senior thesis in Political Science, and is required of all MIT Political Science majors. Seminar participants will develop their research topics, review relevant research and scholarship, frame their research questions and arguments, choose an appropriate methodology for analysis, draft the introductory and methodology sections of their theses, and write a complete prospectus of the project.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Petersen, Roger
Date Added:
09/01/2004
A social networking site is not an open access repository
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“What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?”

“I put my papers in ResearchGate, is that enough for the open access policy?

These and similar questions have been common at open access events over the past couple of years. Authors want to better understand the differences between these platforms and when they should use one, the other, or some combination.

This blog post is a primer on understanding the differences between academic social networking sites and institutional repositories (IRs).

Subject:
Applied Science
Information Science
Material Type:
Reading
Author:
Justin Gonder
Katie Fortney
Date Added:
12/06/2020