Day 2 Springer Realtime
This is an amazing database! I have been accessing Springer journal articles for some time now, but usually only through the UBC library access since most articles were not free. However, on this site, I was able to do many keyword searches and had no issue with downloading article after article – so that was one big bonus. Watching the tracking though was fascinating…I am not sure how I would use it in an educational setting except for my own global perspective of what everybody is accessing through this database…call it being nosy I suppose, but I feel like I am definitely part of a global learning community by watching the downloads on the Icons section of the site. Thanks for the link!
This is a fascinating topic…thanks Week 12!
Brenda
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Allie 10:23 am on November 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks for your post, Brenda!
I think that tools such as Springer Realtime can be really helpful as a teaching tool for having students identify what are the most important or influential articles and authors; I think it can also be useful as a learning tool to think about why certain works are more influential than others. I know that when I teach (undergraduates), I always try to stress that the first (X) number of sources that pop up in a search aren’t necessarily going to be the best ones for their papers – things like Springer Realtime, and cited reference searches on Web of Science and Google Scholar can help all of us identify the best sources for our research needs.
bcourey 3:11 pm on November 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Great ideas Allie…thanks for that