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Churnalism US - a project of Sunlight Foundation. Lingo3G Document Clustering Engine. Lingo3G Document Clustering Engine Lingo3G clustering engine organizes your search results into topics.

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With an instant overview of what's available, you will quickly find what you're looking for. Choose where to search: Type your query: More options More advanced options Hide advanced options Example queries: data mining | london | clustering About Lingo3G: Lingo3G is a Document Clustering Engine that can organize collections of text documents into clearly labeled thematic groups called clusters, in real-time, fully automatically and based only on the documents' content. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. The Best Websites for Finding Academic Books and Journals. July, 2014 Instead of heading to the library to bury your face in the stacks, use these search engines to find out which libraries have the books you need, and maybe even find them available online.

The Best Websites for Finding Academic Books and Journals

WorldCat: Find items from 10,000 libraries worldwide, with books, DVDs, CDs, and articles up for grabs. You can even find your closest library with WorldCat’s tools. Google Books: Supercharge your research by searching this index of the world’s books. HighBeam Research: Research articles and published sources with HighBeam Research’s tools. Vadlo: Vadlo is a life sciences search engine offering protocols, tools, and powerpoints for scientific research and discovery. List of academic databases and search engines. Wikipedia list article This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ substantially in terms of coverage and retrieval qualities.[1] Users need to account for qualities and limitations of databases and search engines, especially those searching systematically for records such as in systematic reviews or meta-analyses.[2] As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems, see: the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposesthe article about bibliographic databases for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles.

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So what are your options for not falling foul of the copyright laws when searching for images? Google Advance Image Search allows you to search under a number of different 'Usage Rights' options:- Flicker - Lots of kind people on Flickr offer their work under a Creative Commons license and the site allows you to browse or search through content under each type of license:- Some other options for finding pics:- AnimalPhotos.info: Thousands of free to use animals photos divided up in to easy to browse categories.CarPictures.cc: This site contains thousands of Creative Commons licensed photos of cars, easily divided up by manufacturer so you can find exactly what you are looking for.Creativity103.com: An archive of over a thousand abstract backgrounds you can use for free or just for inspiration. Peace. Scirus - for scientific information. Google Scholar. Google Books.

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Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] - How-To Geek - StumbleUpon

You don’t need to limit yourself to searching just for simple strings; Google supports all manner of handy search tricks. If you want to search just HowToGeek.com’s archive of XBMC articles, for example, you can plug in site:howtogeek.com XBMC to search our site. Get More Out of Google [HackCollege via Mashable] Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to. If it can be modded, optimized, repurposed, or torn apart for fun he's interested (and probably already at the workbench taking it apart).

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