Open Access Repositories

Stephen Downes links to a list of Australian Open Access repositories and asks for a similar thing for Canada, which leads to a comment pointing to a list of such repositories from all over the world. I'm sure there must be some very useful stuff hidden away in some of the repositories listed.

Wordle of WinK blogs, 2008 1st semester (July 30, 2008)

I tried out the Wordle service today, having come across a recommendation in the Edublogger. It gives a graphic display of the most frequently occurring words in any feed or chunk of text. I fed it our WinK student blogs mega-feed.I suspect that it might only be handling recent posts, as words like [...]

Plagiarism and appropriation of genres

I recently obtained Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning, edited by Hall, Vitanova, and Marchenkova. One of the chapters*, written by Karen Braxley, has some interesting things to say about appropriation of genres, and its relationship to plagiarism. The students whose experiences and views form the main subject of the [...]

CiteULike (1)

Recently, CiteULike, perhaps the best online bibliographic tool, has been progressing in leaps and bounds…

OttoBib and ISBN numbers

Get a formatted citation for any book…

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