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Don't know much about geography? Physics? Nanotech? There are a number of really good video and audio resources available. Try the Research Channel, the Royal Society, Open Source Physics, everything you wanted to know about economics, the dismal science or it's cousin, political science... Then there is MIT World, Carnegie Mellon's open source learning initiative, Connexions, Vega, and the Princeton collection. Wikiuniversity is always interesting, Berkeley does a mean podcast, and the Edge video library is always, well, cutting edge. Stanford has the iTunes connection, and Fathom is a wide ranging site. Do you have a great resource? Share it in the comments section below.
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Research available online for free?
American legislators have proposed that scientific research paid for by US taxpayers should be freely available online to everyone.
Microsoft Launches "Windows Live Academic Search"
Microsoft has rolled out its competitor to Google Scholar. The site is called Windows Live Academic Search. Windows product differs in that instead of trawling the web overall, it works with academic publishers directly to index their content.
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