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CORE, the Open Access Repository for the Humanities

• full-text, interdisciplinary, social repository designed to increase the impact of work in the humanities

HathiTrust Digital Library

• millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world

OAPEN Library

• freely accessible academic books

Open Textbook Library

• affordable, quality textbook solutions

Institutional Repositories

• freely available academic research from nearly 2,500 institutions

ResearchGate.net

• create a profile
• produce a list of publications
• upload copies of papers and associated data
• share project or experiment failures
• track and follow research publications of others in your field
• review statistics related to your research
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Academia.edu

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• Currency: When was the information published/posted/last updated?
• Relevance: What is the importance of the information given your topic or information need?
• Authority: Who is the author/publisher/sponsor of the information?
• Accuracy: Is the information reliable, truthful, and correct?
• Purpose: Why does this information exist?

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