Fun Friday Resources
/I don’t know “fun” these are, but here’s a long list of databases/search engines that I have blatantly lifted from one of the accounts I follow on Bluesky. Note: I have deleted a couple of resources for being a little bit sus: a Russian search engine and a crypto-based search engine. I mean..
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.
link.springer.com: access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br: library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
repec.org: volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov: an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net: provides one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
www.ecosia.org/: Ecosia is a not-for-profit tech company that plants and protects trees. By dedicating 100% of its profits to the planet, Ecosia has planted over 214,229,374 million trees since its founding in December 2009
Gutenberg.org: Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks
Duckduckgo.com: “Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind. Get our browser on all your devices. Search and browse with the DuckDuckGo browser for more protection. Unlike Chrome and other browsers, we don't track you.”
Ebscohost.com: Reliable information for all kinds of research
Startpage.com: Startpage is a global privacy technology company built around the principle of always putting privacy first. Our suite of easy-to-use privacy products helps anyone around the world to protect their personal data online
Have fun, and don’t search anything I wouldn’t search.
