RefBase

The NCSeT Reference Liturature Database is built upon RefBase. Refbase is an open-source web-based bibliographic manager designed to meet the needs of researchers, bibliographers, and librarians in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities for collaboratively building and sharing reference citations, while conforming to current international bibliographic standards. Continue reading “RefBase”

The Research Literature Database Model

The core of the NCSeT Reference Literature Database is a collection of research studies of the uses and impacts of supported text on the reading competence of students in the populations that are the target of the Center's attention. To support the core collection of supported text research, the database also contains materials that establish the conceptual and foundational knowledge upon which supported text is based. For instance, if supported text is to impact students' reading competence, then supported text researchers must build upon the research on reading competence itself, and how it varies among different student populations and teaching/learning contexts.

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