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The World Factbook: The US CIA’s Encyclopedia of Nations

https://imgur.com/a/Ra8PYCS What is The World Factbook? The CIA world factbook is produced by the United States Central Intelligence Agency....
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Globaleaks – Keep the next Edward Snowden safe

Mark Felt, Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, so many familiar names which the media put on...
Libraries

OECD iLibrary: the gate to OECD’s knowledge

OECD iLibrary: the gate to OECD's knowledge

Baidu Scholar: A Useful Tool and Information Source

Baidu Scholar was created in China in June 2014. A free academic resources comes from Chinese biggest search platform baidu, It dedicated to the resource retrieval technology and data...
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Pastebin: A place to save and share your text files. A source review report

Pastebin is a website created in 2002 by a group of developers. It was created mainly for...
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Instagram: Influential #hashtags, Posts and People retrieval

Searching on Instagram sometimes leads to imperfect results.  However, there are some good tools that might be...
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When Your Bike is Your Life. Check out these 5 Apps for Cyclists

If you are a keen cyclist or cycle adventurer and would like to discover new, undiscovered routes...

Face Searching: 3 tools you shouldn’t miss

Face searching. You may think that this type of searching doesn't affect you, but try the following methods and tools and check if (and...

Trump vs. Biden: a Search Keyword Analysis

How do people search for both candidates? We have chosen the following keywords and phrases: 1) TRUMP, BIDEN 2) VOTED FOR TRUMP, VOTED FOR...

The “New Normal” Agenda for Librarianship

This week the scheduled Real Time sessions ended at librarian.SUPPORT. While it wasn’t intended to, the series of discussions and presentations really sparked some...

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The Importance of Information Needs: From Rambo movies to the COVID-19 vaccine

Our world produces an extraordinary amount of data & information that cannot be (of course) be managed and approached in the normal, everyday way....
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Image Search Engines You Should Bookmark

There are specific systems that enable you to search using image files. This article will introduce you to a few useful ways to do...
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OpenRailwayMap: Which Stations Are at the End of the World?

The open OpenRailywayMap project provides a unique insight to existing rail networks around the world. Moreover, you can analyze exotic or risky areas...
Data

Google Domain and Title #Searching: COVID-19 examples

In a previous article dedicated to introducing google searches, we introduced "phrase" as an excellent tool for narrowing of the resulting set of documents....
Data

Google Domain and Title #Searching: COVID-19 examples

In a previous article dedicated to introducing google searches, we introduced "phrase" as an excellent tool for narrowing of the resulting set of documents....
Information

3 Layers of the Web: Surface, Deep and Dark

At the end of the 1980s, when Tim Berners Lee was working at CERN on the development of HyperText Markup Language — HTML (more...
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Digital Maps: Use Them in Your Teaching

Digital maps have become an indispensable part of our everyday life: Quickly calculate the route for the trip to the next business meeting, display...
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WayBackMachine Uncovers Our Digital Past

Have you ever wondered what some aspects of organizations, institutions, or projects looked like 20 years ago? There are several tools and applications on...
Hacks

650m of Tweets per Day? Searching more efficiently on Twitter

If you use Twitter as your communication channel, it would be interesting for you to test the following Twitter advanced search operators. They could...
Hacks

Google Advanced Search Operators: Master Your Search Abilities

When searching on Google, there is a better way how to handle with large amount of your results. Try to narrow your search with...
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How Far is the South Pole from Your City? Just check WolframAlpha

An interesting question for all professionals not only as an informational adventure. What will help to answer? WolframAlpha. Za jeho vznikem stojí Stephen Wolfram, počítačový...
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OpenCorporates offers over 180 million company records. For free.

Businesses, enterprises, and the people associated with them are vitally important in our professional lives. Whether we create connections as entrepreneurs or business owners,...
Information

Shaping our Future with Open Data

We live in a period characterised by a continuous process of data creation. There is, however, a specific type of data known as open...
Data

Google #Searching (4): How to Reach FTP servers

In this instalment of our series on more effective Google searching, we will turn our attention to exploring FTP servers, which often contain very...

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