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Worldcat mentions (64)

• Happy Dewey Decimal System Day! 🥂🎉🗃️

  Look up editions and search for books within a given subject https://worldcat.org/. Source: 6 months ago

• Question regarding interlibrary loans

  If you're in the US, you can look up the book in Worldcat (https://search.worldcat.org/) to get a sense of what libraries actually hold the books you are looking for. When US libraries are doing ILL, they are often using a backend system that is working with the information in that catalog. Source: 7 months ago

• How to Find Children's Books in Foreign Languages?

  Also check out worldcat.org . Type in a title, look for 'View All Formats and Editions' in the lower right of a listing. You can see if the book is offered in your choice of language or format. Click to go deeper into a specific offering and reveal all the details. Now you can get a ISBN number and can search the internet with that number. Source: 10 months ago

• Controversial porn books in US middle schools

  I think worldcat.org has a database that can tell you some school libraries that have a book. Source: 12 months ago

• Recommendations for Books about Singapore w/Contrarian Views?

  Your future, my faith, our freedom: A democratic blueprint for Singapore by Chee Soon Juan. This book was published around 2000 and talks about the many issues with CPF, public housing, the overdependence on MNC in our economy, foreign talent, Singapore education, etc. It is hard to get hold of this book because it has been out of print for many years but you can find it in the NUS library. It is a brilliant and... Source: 12 months ago

Unpaywall mentions (44)

• First time a vacuum was ever created in a laboratory

  You might also find this interesting: https://unpaywall.org/. Source: 7 months ago

• Black holes eat faster than previously expected

  > can you detail what the possible issue is? Why? Are you in a position to help everyone? (As you probably guessed while reading the comment you replied to, I don't really need help; more on that below). "Occasional" is not universal; as you aren't getting the problem in a here-and-now sense you can probably play around with the "here" part by using Tor Browser to see if you can get to the article via the link... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• I am fuckin tired of every other short or video of being about another useless gpt promt or extension. Please give me better trusted resources

  There are many of course the problem is that the ai hallucination problem is still a huge issue. For instance, getting all of https://unpaywall.org/ or something similar into an LLM would be a boon for scientists, but... If you can't trust what it is saying you will end up going back to pull the source anyway. The analysis it provides would probably be helpful though. Source: about 1 year ago

• Can the light from my grow light pass through The Gnat Preventive Chamber™ to the plants inside?

  For problem 1. I can recommend this browser extension: https://unpaywall.org/ it basically redirects you to a legally available free version of any article you are looking at, if it can find one. Source: about 1 year ago

• Got a pub and can’t even view the full text article

  Try this: https://unpaywall.org, it’s legal. Source: about 1 year ago