Free access to polar research
Press Release,
Norweigan Polar Institute,
Dec 08, 2010
Polar Research, the journal of the Norwegian Polar Institute, will become an open-access journal starting in January. You might think, that's nice, but this doesn't really have anything to do with online learning. Really? One application I can think of right away is to have students (or more accurately, student volunteers, because you shouldn't assign students these sort of things) create summaries of the published papers. Writing these summaries and posting them online not only creates a valuable service, it also gives them practice reading technical articles, stretches their knowledge and vocabulary, integrates them into a field they are interested in, and allows their contributions to be commented on and as necessary corrected by the community or journal article authors. The URL will be http://www.polarresearch.net/ starting in January.
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