Replacement for Questia School Research Webiste

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Contributed by LEE SIEW HON CALVIN

Present Situation:

For the Literature Critical Essay, we have always paid for inidivual Questia accounts. We would purchase them for students and teachers, with the help of the librarians. But we were informed last year that Questia Schools is not available anymore.

Improvement:

We approached Wen Di for a solution and he suggested that we could use J-Stor which can be found in the NLB Database, and it is free. So, Wen Di came up with instructions for students to get their parents to register their accounts to get access to the NLB Database, so they will have J-Stor. Wen Di is very much part of this team but I could only add two names, which are the other two Sec 4 Literature teachers. I am not sure about the cost of Questia, as I research on the website and it is about 100 USD per account. Now, we can get academic journals for free.



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