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100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars. While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library.

100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars

Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources. Note: Visit our updated list for the latest in academic search engines. General Start off your research with one of these more general academic search engines. Site. 40 Places for College Students to Find Free Unabridged Books Online. Jul 11, 2011 The cost of books can add up quickly for college students.

40 Places for College Students to Find Free Unabridged Books Online

Fortunately, there are a lot of great sites that offer free unabridged books online. Here are 40 of the best places to find free textbooks, audio books and full-text works of fiction and nonfiction. Cooking conversions. 12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free - StumbleUpon. Lifelong Learning. One of my favorite things about homeschooling is seeing my children learning to love learning.

Lifelong Learning

I come from a family of "lifelong learners"...a grandmother who learned to paint in her 60s, a grandfather who subscribed to a mail order home learning course for years, a mother who went back to school after her children both graduated...not to mention a family full of avid readers. Even more than I want my children to learn facts, I want them to learn *how* to learn, and I want them to love it. I never want them to feel that learning stops at graduation. I ran across an interesting article today, "Are You Working on You? ". Just Fifteen Minutes a Day: Ready…Set…Read!