Friday Free Stuff: some neglected favourites
28 September 2012
Data
- the World Bank not only provides the Open Knowledge Repository - books, reports, studies, working papers, journal articles, etc - but also a vast collection of data.
- databib, an annotated bibliography of primary research data repositories
- figshare - a site where you can host your research data either privately for backup/data management purposes, or publicly (eg negative data) so that "other researchers will not duplicate the work but instead may publish with your previously wasted figures :-)".
- Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, browsable in English and Te Reo.
- the Medical Heritage Library, giving open access to quality historical resources in medicine
- ECCO-TCP: Eighteenth Century Collections Online - 2,231 texts from the 18th century available to search, read, or to reuse the data and metadata for all sorts of research purposes
- the Open Library, a site aiming to create a record for every book in existence - so far including 20 million titles, of which over a million are freely accessible as ebooks.
- Comic Book Plus - Public Domain Comic Books
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