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Stacy Gilbert; Kyunghye Kim; Rebecca Kelley; Alyssa Wright; Alessia Zanin-Yost – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
News aggregator databases offer different content and features, but there is little guidance on how these databases compare. This article compares the coverage scope, availability of 35 U.S. newspaper titles, and features of six news aggregators available to U.S. academic libraries: "Newspaper Source Plus" (EBSCO), "Factiva,"…
Descriptors: Databases, Library Automation, Access to Information, Information Sources
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Muhafidin, Didin – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2020
Information Communication and Technology has made a lot of investments to the rapid transformation of modern society. The goal of the study was to establish a highly customized student information and accounting system in Indonesia to promote the enrolment and accounting phase and to meet the needs of all clients and employees in the provision of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Information Systems, Databases
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Tchoua, Roselyne B.; Qin, Jian; Audus, Debra J.; Chard, Kyle; Foster, Ian T.; de Pablo, Juan – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Structured databases of chemical and physical properties play a central role in the everyday research activities of scientists and engineers. In materials science, researchers and engineers turn to these databases to quickly query, compare, and aggregate various properties, thereby allowing for the development or application of new materials. The…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Databases
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Nicholson, Karen P. – College & Research Libraries, 2015
In his article "The McDonaldization of Academic Libraries?" Brian Quinn explores to what extent and to what effect academic libraries have become "McDonaldized," according to the concept developed by sociologist George Ritzer. Quinn identifies a number of ways in which the four dimensions of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Automation, Library Personnel
Welker, Josh – Computers in Libraries, 2012
Any librarian who has managed electronic resources has experienced the--for want of words--"joy" of gathering and analyzing usage statistics. Such statistics are important for evaluating the effectiveness of resources and for making important budgeting decisions. Unfortunately, the data are usually tedious to collect, inconsistently organized, of…
Descriptors: Library Services, Databases, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries
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Kovacic, Zlatko J.; Green, John Steven – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
Growing enrollment in distance education has increased student-to-lecturer ratios and, therefore, increased the workload of the lecturer. This growing enrollment has resulted in mounting efforts to develop automatic grading systems in an effort to reduce this workload. While research in the design and development of automatic grading systems has a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Teacher Student Ratio, Faculty Workload
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Persico, Donatella; Pozzi, Francesca; Sarti, Luigi – Distance Education, 2010
Monitoring the learning process in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments is a key element for supporting the efficacy of tutor actions. This article proposes an approach for analysing learning processes in a CSCL environment to support tutors in their monitoring tasks. The approach entails tracking the interactions within…
Descriptors: Cues, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes