Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at Ai2.
Author: Seeker
Elicit
Researchers commonly use Elicit to: Speed up literature review; Find papers they couldn’t find elsewhere; Automate systematic reviews and meta-analyses; Learn about a new domain. Elicit tends to work best for empirical domains that involve experiments and concrete results. This type of research is common in biomedicine and machine learning.
STORM
An AI tool from Stanford University that writes Wikipedia-style articles based on Internet research. Based on the prompt you provide, the system conducts Internet-based research to collect references and generates an outline. STORM then uses the outline and references to generate the full-length article with citations.
Perplexity
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
Name that Book : LibraryThing
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. This “Name that Book” group is particularly useful in helping you find books if you can’t remember the name, author, or other pertinent details of a book you’re looking for.
Talpa Book Search
Talpa Book Search alls you to use natural language to find books by plot details, genre, descriptions, and much more; additionally, you can search by book covers, searching by the visual components of the cover, including the color and what’s on it.
Privacy Guides
If certain searches are blocked where you are, this site offers guides, tools, and other resources to assist you online.
Intelligence X
Intelligence X is a unique search engine and data archive that works with specific search terms (selectors) like email addresses, domains, URLs, IPs, Bitcoin addresses, and more. It searches diverse sources, including the darknet, document sharing platforms, and public data leaks, and maintains a historical data archive similar to the Wayback Machine. Intelligence X is useful for open source intelligence.
Mednar
Mednar is a free, medically-focused deep web search engine that uses an advanced search technology by Deep Web Technologies. As an alternative to Google, Mednar accelerates your research with a search of authoritative public and deep web resources, returning the most relevant results to one easily navigable page. Unlike Google, a Mednar search occurs in real-time, retrieving relevant medical information as if you were going to each individual website yourself.
Google Hacking Database
Also making use of Fravia+’s techniques, Exploit-db.com’s list of ‘Google Dorks’ or ‘webbits’ shows you how to Google very specific security-related items.
Search Engine Colossus
International Directory of Search Engines – Search engines of multiple languages and nationalities, as well as topic-specific search sites.
Archive.today
Webpage captures. Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages by taking a ‘snapshot’ of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page.
ResearchGate
Our mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all. The 20 million researchers in our community come from diverse sectors in over 190 countries, and use ResearchGate to connect, collaborate, and share their work.
Academic Torrents
Academics Torrents was established to meet the demands of science in the age of big data. It utilizes a scalable BitTorrent platform that distributes the burden of hosting data, eliminating the risk of data loss due to the rise and fall of dataset hosting providers. Researchers are empowered to replicate data they are working with and share large datasets without incurring the high costs usually associated with commercial providers. Academic Torrents is a product of the Institute for Reproducible Research (a U.S. 501(c)3 nonprofit).
arXive ePrint Archive
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
Harold F. Johnson Library
A searchable repository of books, articles, media, and more.
ScholarWorks
ScholarWorks@GVSU is a service of the Grand Valley State University Libraries. The 22,000+ papers to date represent research and scholarly output selected and deposited by individual university departments and centers on campus. Helping our researchers increase the visibility and impact of their work.
Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.
PubPeer
The PubPeer Foundation is a California-registered public-benefit corporation to improve the quality of scientific research by enabling innovative approaches for community interaction. It’s a service run for the benefit of its readers and commenters, who create its content. Our current focus is maintaining and developing the PubPeer online platform for post-publication peer review.
Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Genealogy Resources
An exhaustive list of helpful links of genealogy resources.
Private Search Engines
A private search engine guide for those concerned about search engine privacy and search result censorship.
How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
The mother of all FAQs, or, Frequently Asked Questions. Sometimes a large part of searching is knowing how to phrase your query.
Cheatography
Cheatography is a collection of 6487 cheat sheets and quick references in 25 languages for everything from science to business, educational and language guides, home and health, to game and hobby cheatsheets. A myriad of subjects, topics of just about anything you could think of!
Cheatsheet Collections
An ongoing and curated collection of awesome software, frameworks and libraries, learning tutorials and videos, technical guidelines and best practices, and cheatsheets in the world of information technology.
Awesome Cheatsheets
This curated list of cheat sheets covers a wide range of topics, including programming languages, frameworks, databases, and more, making it a valuable resource for developers of all levels. They include everything you should know in one single file.
Codeacademy Cheatsheets
Codecademy’s collection offers a comprehensive array of cheat sheets covering various programming languages, from Python and JavaScript to Ruby and SQL. These well-designed and easy-to-navigate resources are perfect for both beginners and experienced coders alike.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. It also houses the largest index of archived webpages.
Universal Digital Library
A collection of one million books.
“Dorking”, or: How to Find Anything on the Internet
“Dorking”, or: How to Find Anything on the Internet
Think of this as a tl;dr for Fravia+’s searchlores. This is a quick ‘n dirty rundown of advanced Googling techniques that have been around since the dawn of meta search engines.
Conference Keeper
The most complete calendar and collection of genealogy-related events and educational opportunities on the internet.
Cyndi’s List
Cyndi’s List is a genealogy research site free for everyone to use and it is meant to be your starting point when researching online. A categorized and cross-referenced index to genealogical resources for you to use in your research.
Library of Congress
One of the largest collections in the world of printed and recorded materials; outstanding source for free images; resource for all copyrighted materials in America and beyond. LOC maintains collections of nearly all city directories and county histories in the U.S.; houses a comprehensive directory of all known copyrighted newspapers by timeframe and where they can be located today, in the important U.S. Newspaper Directory and Chronicling America; and offers comprehensive historical materials of all kinds.
National Archives and Records Administration
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Maintained by the U.S. Federal government, NARA houses millions of microfilmed, printed, and manuscript records. Excellent for census records; governmental and military history records; military pension files; product patents; also passenger lists, early naturalization records, and much more.
FamilySearch
A completely free genealogy database website. You can use an Advanced Search tool by surname, record type, and/or place to access millions of records. The FamilySearch Wiki is a “go to” resource to find what exists for a wide range of family history topics, even beyond FamilySearch’s extensive databases.
USGenWeb
USGenWeb – Free Genealogy on the Internet
Established in 1996 by a group of genealogists who shared a desire to create free online resources for genealogical research. Originally beginning with online directories of text-based resources, their vision has grown into a network of over 3000 linked websites, all individually created and maintained by a community of volunteers. Today you may find a variety of unique county and state resources including photos, maps, transcriptions, historical documents, helpful links, and more.
SpringerLink
Access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols, journals, and more.
Bioline International
Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI’s goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. By providing a platform for the distribution of peer-reviewed journals (currently from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and Venezuela), BI helps to reduce the global knowledge divide by making bioscience information generated in these countries available to the international research community world-wide.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is an initiative that seeks to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related areas. We want to make research more accessible both for the authors and the readers. RePEc is a crowd-sourced effort: a) thousands of people and organizations contribute the underlying data, b) a core team of contributors manage the system, and c) sponsor organizations provide the infrastructure. As such, the RePEc initiative has no central expenses, and thus can provide all services for free to all users.
Science.gov
Science.gov provides access to millions of authoritative scientific research results from U.S. federal agencies. Over 2200 scientific sites, and more than 200 million articles are indexed.