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The electronic reference service is available through Arab libraries’ websites
Cybrarians Journal, 2006 In this review, we discuss one of the modern Arabic books in the field of libraries and information. It deals with one of the technological applications in providing information services, which is the digital reference service that is provided on the ...
Mahmoud Khalifa
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019 This article examines the effect of two Open Educational Resources (OER) - Khan Academy Collection and a teacher-authored open textbook - on mathematical course performance and attendance amongst first-year higher education Chilean students. It also aims
Juan Ignacio Venegas Muggli +1 more
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Reproducibility literature analysis - a federal information professional perspective
IASSIST Quarterly, 2020 This article examines a cross-section of literature and other resources to reveal common reproducibility issues faced by stakeholders regardless of subject area or focus. We identify a variety of issues named as reproducibility barriers, the solutions to
Erin Antognoli +5 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Fronteras de la Historia, 2016 las críticas a la Inquisición desde diversos sectores sociales del virreinato de la Nueva España durante el siglo XVII y primeros años del siglo XVIII. La autora utiliza el concepto de ‘movimiento de opinión’ a la Inquisición para señalar la existencia ...
Natalia Silva Prada
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Library catalogs in the Web 2.0 environment
Cybrarians Journal, 2011 The study discusses the recent developments that have occurred or are expected to occur in library catalogs in the Web 2.0 environment, which include supporting beneficiary participation in content, which is one of the most important characteristics of ...
Mahmoud Khalifa
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Cybrarians Journal, 2009 The study deals with applications of the second generation of Internet services, known as Web 2.0. The study began with an extensive discussion and complete analysis of the term Web 2.0, then the study developed a definition of the term.
Mahmoud Khalifa
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