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Online Tools for Assignment

Introduce useful online tools that may help to prepare your assignment.

Online References

Online references are helpful tools for you to gain a board overview of a topic. You can understand the key issues, history, and sometimes, latest debates on a topic without going through dozens of books, journal articles, and other materials. This can help you to develop a mind map on a topic and learn keywords and terminologies for further research.

For example, how well do you understand the topics below? Try to use the following tools to learn more.

  • Palliative care
  • Crytocurrency
  • Prisoner's dilemma
  • Nazca lines
  • Dark tourism


Wikipedia
A free online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.

Credo Reference
​An online reference collection with full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering a broad range of subjects.

SAGE knowledge
​A digital library that covers an extensive range of eBooks, videos and reference works in various subject disciplines.

Oxford Reference
Provides access to 100 key Oxford Dictionaries, Companions, and Encyclopedias in various areas including language, science, medicine, humanities, social sciences, business, and management.

Open Knowledge Maps
A free online tool that can generate a knowledge map of a research topic.

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