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September 26th, 2013

What is it?  “Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with smart tools that track, analyze and visualize research.”  Over 20,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide Contains 49 million records, 78% with abstracts Includes over 5.3 million conference papers Provides 100% Medline coverage Interoperability with ScienceDirect, Engineering Village and Reaxys  [http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus] Benefits ·        more…

September 26th, 2013

Ecotones is a term used in ecology to describe the place in which two ecosystems touch or merge.  However, the term could also be used to describe what is anticipated in the Active Learning Center (ALC):  the touching or merging of the activities that typically have taken place in a classroom, lecture hall, or laboratory more…