Online Tools
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Books and Literature
- Find connections between your favorite authors at Literature Map
- Approaches to Postmodernism
Tech Tools
- RAW turns spreadsheet data into vector graphics
- Turn your Google Drive folder into a PDF
Historical Media
- Find open-source and copyright-free media at CreativeCommons search
- Digital Public Library of America amazing resource of historic materials
- The British Library has digitized many historic texts and images
- Europeana historical documents and lots of art
Science Materials
- Encyclopedia of Life seeks to collect information and pictures of all forms of life on Earth
- PLOS, Public Library of Science, nonprofit publisher of scholarly works and academic papers
- BioRxiv, biology research
- SocArXiv, sociology research
- arXiv, open access to 1,180,311 e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics
- PeerJ, peer-reviewed, open-access articles on life-, bio-, health sciences and computer science.
Open-source Scholarship
- Directory of Open-Access Journals disseminates free academic papers
- ShareOK, shared resources between OU and OSU
- MLA Commons, repository of open access materials
Free Education!
- Coursera, (mostly) free online education on any topic
- Academic Earth, free online courses
Documentaries and Videos
- Free Documentaries
- SnagFilms lots of free documentaries here, too, as well as low-budget short films to inspire
- TED—always worth your time
Self-improvement
- Habitica, an online app to help you learn better habits