Open Library might be a bit more popular than Academia.edu. We know about 263 links to it since March 2021 and only 185 links to Academia.edu. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
In terms of getting hold of these books and articles, this thread provides some useful (and legal) tips and some links provided in this thread, u/PhiloSpo also works to highlight open access works. Libraries are always an invaluable tool to recommend and can help you get hold of books, for me jstor.org with 100 articles a month on a free account, academia.edu has free papers have been very useful as a platform.... Source: 6 months ago
I've found a lot of free articles on patristics/saints at academia.edu over the years. Source: 7 months ago
PS: Dear MODs, if it's not appropriate for this sub, sorry to disturb, just delete this massage. (I got used to situation when subs delete my wish to share my ideas. Considering link to my reddit sub as something forbidden to share. For those who might think that my book is "schizophrenic nonsense" I disagree, as a trusted representatives of many scientific resources such as academia.edu, ssrn.com revised and... Source: 9 months ago
The problem here is that academia.edu is not perse a place where authors will upload their papers; it rather functions as a large academic PDF exchange. I have messaged the uploader a while back, but have not received a response. Source: 11 months ago
Available on the free tier at academia.edu. Source: 11 months ago
Check out https://openlibrary.org. You can search ´library science’, librarian’, etc, and something should come up. Just select the ‘ebooks’ option to search for items within the collection. And you can narrow the search by subject, etc. Source: 6 months ago
Right now I'm in the middle of the chicken and the egg problem where we don't have enough authors cataloging their publications and b/c of that obviously readers are not interested in using the site. I've gone back and forth with taking Open Libray's [0] catalog as that would at least flesh out our collection of books but then I'd have to deal with verifying authors to accounts so they can access their books.... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 7 months ago
The Internet Archive runs what they call the Open Library, which is a unique concept on the traditional library. You can sign-up with minimal details and digitally check out many scanned books from libraries all over the world. The only caveat is that almost all of the books are older editions - ones that would be impossible to find locally. It's great if you're looking for old routes, a look back in time, details... Source: 7 months ago
I want to clarify that I'm a non-US citizen, so accessing physical copies from US libraries or buying it from Amazon might not be feasible for me. To give you some context, my personal research was guided by the wiki section of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH (https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/reading/). I've conducted research using various online resources, including the Ebook & Open Source/Access Libraries... Source: 8 months ago
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