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 NEWS
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Our values are: Partnership, Excellence, Innovation,
Diversity, Openness to change, and Service
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1. New
MA / MS Manual and Forms:
The new Master’s Thesis and Report Guide:
Format and Presentation is now online. Check the
Graduate Research Assistance
page for the complete document and related forms
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2. New
Electronic Resource:
2.1
Credo Reference:
an online collection of over 500 high-quality reference
books, including
Almanacs, Biography
and Genealogy, Maps, Atlases, Speeches and Transcripts
and Statistics and Datasets
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2.2
ScienceDirect Freedom Collection
Access to approximately 2240 Elsevier publications dated
from 2008 to present
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3.
Research Assistance Tool
Journal
Citation Reports:
Allows the evaluation and comparison of journals to show
the highest impact journals in a field.
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4.
Evaluation Source
Turnitin:
Allows faculty and students to improve academic writing.
It checks
for possible instances of plagiarism before submitting
the final drafts to the course instructors. It can
handle papers in 31 languages in addition to English,
including Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian,
Russian, Spanish and Chinese (simplified and
traditional). For Faculty to activate account: Email
E-Resources
Librarian SUBJECT Turnitin Account; MESSAGE
containing name, department, faculty and UOB email
address.
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4.
Bibliographic Assistance Tool
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RefWorks 2.0 :
Is
a web-based bibliography and database manager that
allows you to create your own personal database by
importing references from text files or online
databases.
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