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[pooxs]

Academics, if you can imagine it, in a world where you do not have access to a university and thus the subscriptions to online databases they hold, where do you find reputable sources of academic articles?

I'm teaching 1984 to my wonderfully intelligent 12s and want to give them readings on some of the concepts within that are more in depth and

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[alaryn]

Have you looked at SparkNotes?

1984 is the first listed under "Literature" in the "Subject Browser" to the far left or up the top.

Not sure if it's what you're looking for... If you want, I can totally log into Curtin's Library and see what pdf's are on e-Reserve, then email them to you ;)

Not sure whether someone would get in trouble for that, though... :\

[pooxs]

yeah, tried spark notes and the similar sort of sites.

I want something more academic than those sort of sites, actual articles published in journals type things.

for and against of censorship, reasons for lack of resources during war (obviously as people are producing weapons rather than clothes etc), for and against socialism, and propaganda are the main ones I'm looking for.

essentially I want external sources the kids can reference in their exams to back up their own opinions of the texts that the exam markers would hopefully have heard of

[alaryn]

I'm not sure whether Foucault's "Panopticon" would be too much for them.

Even trying to get a hold of Marx & Engles writing could be useful...

Umm, I have a couple more ideas I need to pull out of my brain, but I have to run off somewhere. I'll have a look later tonight when I'm doing my uni stuff :)

[pooxs]

they have read some Foucault last year, so not sure, worth a try.

Marx and Engles is too much for them. I got the History teacher to give them a crash course in the ideologies last term.

thanks :)

[flyingreptile]

You could try search citeseer and Google scholar. In some areas there are a lot of "expanded techreports", as when you submit to a conference there is often a harsh page limit and it is common to put an expanded version on your webpage.