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Invaluable resources to promote academic success and career readiness
Proficiency in information literacy, critical analysis and research are among the most important skills to ensure educational excellence and employability. Books on ScienceDirect provide invaluable resources to help students and researchers build these skills.
Get a global perspective from students, academics, researchers and librarians about the value of books in achieving educational excellence and career readiness.
Students, educators and researchers are having to explore new areas because many of today’s complex questions are coming at the intersection of disciplines. To get themselves up to speed, they need the fundamental base of knowledge and practice available in books:
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Books provide a sweep of knowledge and help synthesize information that can otherwise be fragmented in other sources.
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Applying knowledge to finding answers or solutions is the next step in progressing student and researcher proficiency. Here, too, books are a powerful resource. Use of subject-specific monographs, foundational references, major reference works, book series and serials, and handbooks opens in new tab/window all are crucial to advancing from knowledge to application.
The knowledge and application learned from books help students progress to an academic or research career path. High-quality Books on ScienceDirect help aspiring researchers to think creatively and communicate clearly, expose approaches to tackling important problems and demonstrate how to conduct research with integrity. These are all qualities that today’s employers desire in those coming into the workforce.
“Books play a very important role in learning about research. They have a more pedagogical presentation and a systematic collection of knowledge.”
RM
Robert Mann
Professor of Physics and Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
