The Digital Commons Network: Business Commons provides you with 60,700+ Open Access full-text articles pertaining to Business.
Digital Commons Network – is an open access network that provides articles, dissertations, thesis, and book chapters on a variation of business divisions. There is direct connection to articles with an abstract and ability to download. There are citations available for easy use and formatting purposes. The user may research across business and sub-disciplines with ease and search by author, institution, sub-disciplines, collections, keywords, publication year, publication type, as well as file type. This provides direct research application – eliminating extra steps in the search process. There are abstracts provided for each article, book, etc. with direct links to the article and download. Alike the links are open to share via social media.
This site/resource is free and requires no cost for use.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
This material may be useful for any individual, team, busines, etc. It would also be useful for anyone who is looking for peer reviewed, scholarly articles. It may be useful for:
Personal Development
Professional Growth/training
Individual research
Team research
Individual use
Class use
Coaching
Technical Requirements:
Basic web browser needed; viewed in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and did not experience any difficulties in viewing the content.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. It helps to:
Expand knowledge a realm of business topics and sub-topics.
Determine how to differentiate peer reviewed articles.
Differentiates learning styles – diverse learning.
Target Student Population:
College students in General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, business professional, managers, staff, faculty within college of business
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
A foundation in business and sub-divisions of business would make the search more applicable; however, anyone interested in development on the subject matter and across sub-disciplines would benefit from this site.
Basic computer skills are needed providing one is open to learning the navigation process to attain desired search outcomes.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The site and material are easy to navigate and understand. The learning material may be implemented into a variety of learning opportunities. Links were working and functional to share on social media. Further, content is relevant and accurate to the purpose of the learning object.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
This is an excellent tool to develop knowledge across audiences. The ability to search by various means including author, institution, collections, disciplines, publication year, publication type, etc. Shares citations for easy reference and formatting purpose
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
Layout is clear, consistent, and easy to use
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