Search tools beyond Google also free resources for books

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.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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Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks

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NASA technical reports server ntrs.nasa.gov has most of NASA technical reports (conference papers, journal articles, slide shows, ebooks, contractor reports, etc.)

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Should we start printing things out again….I know that’s nuts, but I feel like we should.