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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
This is a really good thread from mastodon about the counter culture scenes of the 1980s and 90 and how they were destroyed and what we can do to rebuild them.
there is no point in getting depressed. We have to fight
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eating michigan shaped sour candy rn. i'm being informed they're called michigummies
we're talking upper peninsula and everything
This edible ain’t shi- *wakes up in muskegon*
ID: two gummies, one blue, one red. they're shaped like the two parts of michigan. ID end
I just bought some of these! when I saw them I was like, "just like tumblr!" the bag is mostly upper peninsulas
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WET BEAST WEDNESDAY
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I get the humor but y’all are allowed to admit he isn’t a divine prophet. Him having a few bad takes doesn’t diminish how good his other takes are. You’re ok to not agree with every last thing he says, I promise.
We’re not saying he’s a prophet, just that his framework allowed him to see blatant issues developing at that point in time. This is actually a fairly easy thing to do when you’re familiar with dialectical and historical materialism, the ability to point out present contradictions as worsening with time. It’s not “predictive” as much as pointing out that capital won’t avoid this scenario in the making.
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the joker is so fucked up for this one. OCD based death trap is crazy
two bits!
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eating michigan shaped sour candy rn. i'm being informed they're called michigummies
we're talking upper peninsula and everything
This edible ain’t shi- *wakes up in muskegon*
ID: two gummies, one blue, one red. they're shaped like the two parts of michigan. ID end
I just bought some of these!
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It's so funny to see these weirdos say "listen to Korean women's perspectives" when like anyone who isn't an outright TERF working in feminist spaces as Korean is saying that 4b is an awful transphobic movement. Like, even Judy Han, who ascribe capitalist motivations for trans women's desire to pass as well as Harisu (an influential transgender woman in South Korea's media landscape), makes it clear under no other certain terms that 4b's splintering from other feminist groups in South Korea is because the adherents that tried to work with organizers kept being weird and transphobic, as well as racist and classist (Han uses their usual diplomatic no-denouncement terms).
All of you that are falling for the 4b movement have more in common with early 2000s 4channers than you might assume. Uncritically repeating things the most right-wing members of the foreign country says because it comes in English, then even going so far as to run defense for the right-wing claims when challenged by people who know better is exactly how 2channers infiltrated and ingrained a view of Japan as a conservative hellscape to early 4chan /a/ users.
listen to a queer korean trans woman’s perspective when i say that korean culture is so deeply misogynistic and homophobic that any kind of feminist movement in korea is decades behind and the 4b movement is transphobic and rooted in terf shit.
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use, and i cannot stress this enough, thriftbooks
if thriftbooks doesn’t have what you’re looking for, especially if you’re looking for it used/cheap, alternatives include betterworldbooks and discoverbooks.
Other tips for cheaper books is checking amazon and scrolling down to the “buy used” or “other sellers” section and then checking to see if those sellers have storerfonts off of amazon.
There is also a good chance that you might have a local, indie book store that likely also has a used book section! Indiebound might help you find those book stores!
Also, check out your local library, sometimes, they have a for sale section or might have certain times of the year where they do massive used book (dvd, cd, etc) sales to fundraise!
(It’s also worth checking directly from an author’s or publisher’s page and seeing if they have other places they sell their books. I know this is about cheaper/used books, since some of y’all aren’t built for piracy or the library, but also if you want to dodge supporting amazon AND want to more directly support artists you support, there’s a good chance they might have alternate ways to buy the books!)
I use thriftbooks a lot, it's so good!
as someone who works in an independent bookstore, alibris is the best for supporting yr local bookstore! abebooks is now owned by amazon. thriftbooks is great also just doesn’t usually support independent stores.
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Truck drivers in Michigan have for years smashed into an undersized bridge called The Big Penny. Normal warning signs have not deterred drivers from wedging dozens of trucks into its hungry maw.
So they put eyes and teeth on the bridge, in part as a further deterrent.
It has not worked…
official michigan post
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Wrong Order - Gator Days
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CLASSIC Weird Book I Found At Work! No extra context needed.