I’m anxious to take a look at this new product from EasyBib.  Students could really benefit from tools such as this, particularly when it comes to avoiding plagiarism.  From the press release: New York, January 30, 2013 – Today’s student researchers are inundated with information and many don’t have the critical thinking or research skills [...]

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Mike Sweet, CEO of Credo Reference, gave me a tour of the new Credo Topic Pages yesterday.  What a great tool they are for background/overview information on 10,000 different topics!  The stimulus for creating the Topic Pages was context.  A University of Washington study on how students research in the digital age found that students [...]

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As another way to simplify research, Credo Reference announced a partnership with EasyBib, an automatic bibliography site.  Students can now conduct research in Credo Reference and with a simple click, track the bib data.  EasyBib was founded in 2001 by students and is used by over 16 million students.  They offer citations in MLA, APA, [...]

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