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i never showed off these flowers in the way they deserved to be!

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mornin’ 👋🏻

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As a librarian I want to scream about this constantly

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

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Whatever is learned with satisfaction and enjoyment stays with you forever.

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my second ben lerner book — charming, self-affacing without being insincere, with traces of what eventually became the hatred of poetry, committed to poetry without being able to define it, drifting but not aimlessly, and so, so funny

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.

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Topaz Winters, from "Cherry Blossoms"

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Remember that hotel that had a little house full of coffee and tea, a little kettle, mugs and sugar? We recently went back for a weekend and they still have them – very silly, very cute, very joyful

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Stretches + thermodynamics ♥️

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Read this before bed the other night and loved loved loved it 🤍

#claire keegan #small things like these #book #read #college #studyblr #study break #study #psychology #neuroscience #books #fellowship #internship #university #library #library books #library and information science #library science #current book #current read #recent reads

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(11/30) Recently I explained the concept of dépaysé(e), which literally translates to “de-countried”. Before I learned this word I could never eloquently describe why it always felt so off to be back in Ireland, and how I tend to feel a bit lost and foreign there despite being Irish. It can also be used in a positive context though! You could describe a holiday being great bcs everything felt so different, j’ai été dépaysé(e) ☕️

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Tough times never last, but tough people do. 

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2/8/2024

30nym challenge Day 4: what book are you currently reading?

📚 - Un verdor terrible por Benjamín Labatut

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You’re never too old to learn something new. Never stop studying. 

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You’re never too old to learn something new. Never stop studying. 

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