More Research Links - A Mirror (Credit @s-n-arly on tumblr)

In my previous post on options for research beyond Google, there were a good number of compiled links from a post by Edward Clark. I'll admit I don't know who that is, but I thought the link looked pretty good. Since my previous post has an embed link for tumblr, if the post is deleted or lost the links will also be lost. So I'm going to blockquote some of them here.

• refseek - Academic Search Engine - More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
• WorldCat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
• SpringerLink - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
• Bioline International is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
• RePEc: Research Papers in Economics - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
• Science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
• PDF Drive is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): Basic Search is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.

There was an update post with more search databases and other useful sites. The important point to research is to do the deep work of using many sources that are free from bias.

• Qwant - Search engine with no tracking or advertising
• Ecosia - Search engine that plants trees – has ads and that ad revenue runs the engine while funding tree planting

Academic/Reseach

• Academia - platform that shares academic research
• arXiv - (pronounced archive, apparently) is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,328,899 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. It is housed by Cornell University
• Astrophysics Data System - The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic collections containing more than 15 million records covering publications in astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and general science.
• REPEAT: BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): Basic Search BASE is a search engine specifically for academic studies texts, and contains more than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.
• REPEAT: Bioline - This is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
• Education Resources Information Center - ERIC is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.
• JSTOR - academic digital library providing access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
• PubMed - the National Institute for Health's National Library of Medicine, comprises more than 35 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
• Research Gate - founded to address the problems in the way science is created and shared. Connects the world of science and makes research open to all.
• REPEAT: Research Papers in Economics - Volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science for RePEc.
• Sci-Hub - research publication library – technically pirated content, but please note that the researchers do not get paid for publication, and will often send you a PDF of their research for free if you ask, it's the publications that want to restrict access to paying readers
• REPEAT: US Government Science Portal - Science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
• REPEAT: World Cat - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where the rare book you need is.

Libraries

• Boston Library History & Political Science - The Boston Library has a ton of history and poli sci resources. Big libraries often have things available digitally for free, even if you aren't in the area.
• Hathi Trust Digital Library – This library provides free digitized books from all over the world.
• Internet Archive - This non-profit library houses millions of free digital books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• PDF Drive - This is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format, claiming over 225 million names. Caution advised as some users report malware may be hidden in with the valid content.
• Project Gutenberg - This site provides free downloads of digital books, focusing on works with expired US copyright. Note, if you look for out-of-print books on Google, it will try to sell you books that you can actually download free from Gutenberg (I've tested this multiple times).
• Z Library – This digital library provides ebooks for free. ... ... Whoa. This is serious. This domain has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Understand this. Information wants to be free.