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|Anthropology Library at UC Berkeley.
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|Arxiv at Cornell University Library
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|arXiv is an e-print service of 538,000 articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics
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|Applied Math and Science Education Repository
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|A portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library
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|CogPrints - Cognitive Science ePrint Archive
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|an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
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|Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network - CKAN
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| a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN makes it easy to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that are machine automatable. CKAN combines the features of a listing/registry, a package index and a wiki. As a registry it acts like freshmeat but for open data and content resources. However it adds to a simple registry in key ways.
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|DASH - Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
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|A central, open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard.
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|ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center
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|ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
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|eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship. With eScholarship, you can publish the following original scholarly works on a dynamic research platform available to scholars worldwide:
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|eTexts at Adelaide University
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|Free web books online
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|British Library - Opening access to UK theses.
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|Google Books
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|Harvard is contractually obligated to limit access to most Harvard Libraries e-resources to current Harvard students, faculty, staff, and researchers who hold Harvard IDs and PINs, but there's a lot of accessible information available online here at one of the biggest libraries in the world, anyway.
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|Harvard University - Example: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/14115881?n=1&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=0.125
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|Harvard Law School Library Digital Collections
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|The Harvard Law School Library is dedicated to digitizing and making available online selections of its rare and important materials. In addition to bringing these materials to a wider audience, digitization facilitates access to unique and valuable materials while preserving and protecting fragile originals.
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|ibiblio.org - the public's library and digital archiv
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|Internet Archive
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|Universal Access to Human Knowledge; Wayback machine; Permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format; includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities
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|The Internet Public Library
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|The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment; Ask an IPL Librarian Reference Service.
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|The Internet Public Library 2
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|The ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII).
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|International Children's Digital Library
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|A Library for the World's Children
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|LibriVox: Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain
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|Free audiobooks: volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
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|Bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994
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|Your tool for exploring the world's largest library. The Library's new, personalized site, myLOC.gov, presents many of these items in compelling online exhibitions that reveal our nation's history, knowledge and creativity through primary sources, engaging activities and materials for teachers and students. Plan your visit. Touch history. Get lesson plans. Zoom into maps. Do a word search related to the founding documents of the United States. Try your hand at re-writing the Declaration of Independence.
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|National Science Digital Library
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|Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics; K-12 and higher education.
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|Nature Precedings
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|Connects thousands of researchers and provides a platform for sharing new and preliminary findings with colleagues on a global scale. Post pre-print manuscripts, posters and presentations on Nature Precedings to claim priority and receive feedback on your findings prior to formal publication.
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|Online Archive of California
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|The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 150 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.
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|Online Literature Library
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|The online literature library
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|PLoS Biology
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|A peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science
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|PLoS One
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|An interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research
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|Project Gutenberg
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|Over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources
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|a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
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|Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
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|devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences; Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing Submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world.
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|Social Science Research Network (SSRN) eLibrary by Network / Journal / Topic
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|SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 280,600 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 230,100 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.
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|Stanford University's Cubberley Education Library
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|Broad coverage of education is offered in a collection of over 170,000 volumes. Part of this collection is stored off campus in SAL3 for preservation. These items may be paged to campus. Current subscriptions to journals and other serials number about 1100. Many of these are available electronically to those affiliated with Stanford. Cubberley offers access to myriad electronic resources, including articles, books, reports, government documents, and data. We have the ERIC documents, college catalogs, and Kraus Curriculum resources (in each case older ones are on microfiche & newer ones on the Web.) We have a small but growing curriculum collection, plus historical collections of textbooks and college catalogs in paper format. Doctoral dissertations for the School of Education are shelved in Cubberley, with those from 1989+ also available online for downloading by the Stanford community.
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|Twitter Biomedical Journals
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|University of Pennsylvania's Online Books
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|Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web
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|University of Virginia Library
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|The University of Virginia Library, one of the oldest research libraries in the U.S., has partnered with Google to make selected books from the Library’s collections searchable online. For books in the public domain, full-text copies will be available at no charge through Google Book Search. Here are answers to frequently asked questions about this partnership.
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|World Digital Library
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|The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
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| A wiki for tracking searches in various categories for academic (i.e. faculty) positions. Please post listings by subject area
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| Bookshare
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| Bookshare is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities; dramatically increases the accessibility of books; is a searchable online library; offers more than 70,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools; for readers of all ages.
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| Europeana: Think Culture
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| Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 6 million digital items. Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects; Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers; Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts; Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts. Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe's museums and galleries, archives, libraries, audio-visual collections
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| The first collaborative photo encyclopedia - lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and enrich images to be useful for the whole world wide web.
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| Freebase is a large collaborative knowledge base. It is an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual 'wiki' contribution.
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|Mendeley Research Networks' Public Collections
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|Organize, share, and discover research papers! Mendeley is a research management tool for desktop & web. You can also explore research trends and connect to other academics in your discipline.
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|Webnographers.org
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|A central hub for those interested in ethnography and anthropology of the internet - bibliographies, ideas, library, tools, directories.
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|The Free Dictionary
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|Bibliotheca Alexandrina - The New Library of Alexandria
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|Citizendium
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|a "citizens' compendium of everything", is an open wiki project dedicated to creating a free, comprehensive, and ''reliable'' repository of structured knowledge
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|Encyclopedia of Life
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|An electronic page for each species of organism on Earth?
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|Insectopedia
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|Research portal pertaining to entomology and its related fields. After submission, all resources are classified by our staff of professional educators, including species, research, insect control, communication, pictures, schools, conservation, identification, expertise, hobbies and other important services.
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|Knol
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|dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought.
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|Library of Economics and Liberty
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|Wikipedia
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|Conversations with History
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|The Institute of International Studies promotes interdisciplinary research in international, comparative, and policy studies on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Established in 1955, the Institute focuses today on the following intellectual themes: Peace and global security in the 21st century; Environment, demography, and sustainability; Globalization, development, and human rights; Technological change and the transformation of the global economy
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|TED Talks
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|TED is an academic organization dedicated to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design
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|ISKME's mission is to understand and improve how schools, colleges, universities, and the organizations that support them build their capacity to collect and share information systematically, apply it to well-defined problems, and create knowledge-driven environments focused on learning and success.
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|a list of standards aligned free digital textbooks for high schools that cover the course content in mathematics and science subject areas.
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|CK-12's FlexBook Tool
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|8 textbooks; A place where you can find and customize content. Physical Sciences, Optics, Elements and the Periodic Table, Behavior of Gases, Mathematics, Advanced Geometry, Functions, Trigonometry, Life Science, Human Biology, Living Systems, Genetics
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|Community College Open Textbook Collaborative
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|Open Textbooks by Subject
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|Need free, world-class elementary level textbook
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|Need free, world-class elementary level textbook
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|Flat World Knowledge Textbooks
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|Remixable Textbook by Expert Authors. Free online. 'We preserve the best of the old — books by leading experts, peer‑reviewed and developed to high editorial standards, fully supported by review copies, teaching supplements and great service. Then we change everything. Our textbooks are: Free online; Affordable offline; Open–licensed; Customizable by educators.'
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|a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003; since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 38,073 pages
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|EPUB formatted eBooks which will allow users of modern eBooks readers to have the best possible reading experience.
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|Free Books
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|A lifetime of free audio ebooks and chapters
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|Many book collections in the public domain may be freely accessed here
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|20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks, Parts i & ii
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|News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books
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