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	<title>Distance Education &#187; Research</title>
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	<description>Questions (and answers) for University of Iowa Distance Education students</description>
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		<title>Electronic Books</title>
		<link>http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/disted/2008/06/electronic-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Find Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first glance, it seems that electronic books would be a wonderful and convenient resource for distance ed students &#8211; if the book you want is available electronically. Here are some advantages and disadvantages of electronic books and a strategy to help you use them most effectively. 
Advantages:

No shipping &#8211; e-books, being electronic, are available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding articles online</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online articles are awfully convenient and certainly a timesaver for distance students, but finding online articles is not always as straightforward as we would like. That&#8217;s why the University of Iowa&#8217;s InfoLink system is so useful.
Each copyright holder needs to grant permission for different databases or providers to make their article available online and there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Database?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/disted/2008/03/which-database/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A student sent in this great question, which is so obvious I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t think to put something on the blog already.
Hello there,
I want to research portable classrooms. I am interested in severe weather risks to children in portable classrooms vs conventionally built classrooms, terrorist/shooter risks, exposure to noxious chemicals from the building materials/molds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching Multiple databases</title>
		<link>http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/disted/2008/02/searching-multiple-databases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Find Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Share tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a follow up to another question, a student asked&#8230;
&#8220;Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. You have been very helpful.  One more.  Is there a way to search all of the data bases together for one subject?&#8221;
Yes, you can use the Smartsearch, linked from the main library webpage, [...]]]></description>
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