July/August 2008  

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How to find academic articles online?

There are various services and free-of-charge databases available online which allow students to search for academic articles which later can be used in to create a bibliography.

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This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3457 journals in the directory. Currently 1173 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 189082 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals

 

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
http://scholar.google.com/

 

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American Educational Research
Open Access Journals in the Fiels of Education-links to electronic journals that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost.
http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/

 

 

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This serwis provides 10 milion articles from thousand of periodicals since 1984.
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 What's new: books, articles, www pages
Article Alert
Roberts, Walter R. WHAT IS PUBLIC DIPLOMACY? PAST PRACTICES, PRESENT CONDUCT, POSSIBLE FUTURE (Mediterranean Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Fall 2007, pp. 36-52)

The author, cofounder of the Public Diplomacy Institute at George Washington University and a former member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, writes that there is no agreement on what constitutes public diplomacy. A century ago, the populations of most countries were all-but-unreachable; no government had any reason to explain their policies to foreign publics. That changed with the invention of radio, which the Bolshevik and Nazi regimes used to great effect. It was the Nazi wartime propaganda activities in Latin America that prompted the U.S. to initiate cultural and academic exchanges.
 
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Electronic Journal
Markets and Democracy The connection between markets and democracy has never been a straight line. Since the 1700s economic thinkers have been debating this complex relationship. Is it possible to have free markets without democracy? Which develops first? Can the incentive of economic growth lead to greater democracy in countries that are not democratic?   more | Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version
 CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher Online is the award-winning choice of researchers seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the CQ tradition. With every issue of eNews we will present an abstract of new topic from CQ Researcher. For full version of the report or other reports please contact AIRC Warsaw.
ABSTRACT

Transition to Digital TV
By Kenneth Jost

After years of delays, the nation's full-power television stations are facing a deadline of Feb. 17, 2009, to switch from traditional analog broadcasting to all-digital. Digital TV promises viewers better-quality pictures and sound. The switch also frees up valuable room on the electromagnetic spectrum for wireless communications, including emergency transmissions. Broadcasters will be able to offer. . . .
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