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Skip Google for Research
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library” – from a 2012 campaign for the Netherlands Architecture Institute #libraries #librariesmatter More
“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin
BOOKSTORES/LIBRARIES IN ROMANCE FILMS: When Harry Met Sally (1989) Before Sunset (2004) Remember Me (2010) Funny Face (1957) Notting Hill (1999) You’ve Got Mail (1998) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Obvious Child (2014) 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Beginners (2010)
Think of this—that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and that they were alone with each other.
A. S. Byatt, Possession (via antigonick)
Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Cornelia Funke (via bookmania)
Column header, found in Science Gossip magazine, 1900.
Blessed are the librarians for they hold the books in sacred trust | 🎨 Laura Trinder 🔖 #libraries #librarylove #librariesmatter More
Lluvia de verano: en casa y con un buen libro (ilustración de Jungsuk Lee )
Ven a la biblioteca y aprovisiónate de libros para las vacaciones (ilustración de Laura Row)
The Gaffney Ledger, South Carolina, February 6, 1934
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I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.
Mark Jason Dominus (via bookmania)
I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods.
Rebecca Solnit (via bookmania)