Based on our record, Open Library seems to be a lot more popular than ScienceDirect. While we know about 263 links to Open Library, we've tracked only 20 mentions of ScienceDirect. 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.
You can research some more in those two sites (especially in sciencedirect.com, you can filter by open studies if you are broke like me). Source: 11 months ago
That's incorrect. You also need to get some better sources. EPA.gov, the ICCT report, and sciencedirect.com are highly political institutions. Source: about 1 year ago
First of all, sciencedirect.com is not a peer reviewed science site. it gets a 2 out of 4 stars when rated by actual scientists. Source: over 1 year ago
The source "sciencedirect.com" is at the end of the quote and you can easily do your own research but you won't. Also the point is to show the hypocrisy that people accept random standards like that because you're programmed to. Source: over 1 year ago
You might want to look at building a passive solar water heater. According to sciencedirect.com, "passive solar water heating systems generally transfer heat by natural circulation as a result of buoyancy due to temperature difference between two regimes; hence they do not require pumps to operate. They are the most commonly used solar water heating systems for domestic application." They are non-electric. Source: over 1 year 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: 5 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 / 6 months ago
Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 6 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
Emerald Insight - Emerald Insight is a website that offers you thousands of books, articles, journals, and research papers on virtually all subjects from physical sciences such as physics and chemistry, to life sciences such as botany and zoology.
Archive.org - Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies...
Springer Link - Springer Link is a website offering access to millions of articles, research papers, books, and journals to researchers and students.
Z-Lib - ZLibraryPart of Z-Library project. The world's largest ebook library.
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