Freebies Hunt

Research

Listed are the hubs for getting academic resources like research papers, various references, facilitating studying with groups and collections of data used for the study.

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  • Academic Torrents

    A tracker for academic materials such as journals, whitepapers, and videos. Even features convenient bibliographic features.

  • Awesome Research (by emptymalei)

    An awesome list of mostly free and open source research tools and resources for your research project.

  • Awesome Public Datasets (by awesomedata)

    An awesome list of publicly available datasets for your research (or just to find a data set for your data visualization/science learning or something).

  • Academia.edu

    A collaborative and sharing platform for your research papers. It could also be useful to explore and find some literatures to be referenced for your next research.

  • arXiv

    A website that offers over 1 million open e-prints of papers on various fields such as astronomy, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and more.

    Personal comment:

    Recommending this one if you want to look for a literature for your research.

  • Brainly

    A study group for students and peer-to-peer engagement. Formerly known as OpenStudy.

    Personal comment:

    Recommended if you're looking for an academics study group.

  • Data.gov

    The repository of various datasets initiated and publicly released from the US government.

  • Figshare

    A platform for open scientific research data.

  • Mendeley

    A research organization tool. Also comes with a research network.

  • Google Scholar

    An academic research and publication hub. Could be useful in finding literary sources for your next research or thesis.

  • Google Dataset Search

    A search engine made by Google for publicly available datasets.

  • Kaggle

    A website that references public data sets. It's quite a website for your data science or research projects.

  • LaTeX

    A highly regarded typesetting system for scientific documents. Supports a wide variety of mathematical (and scientific) expressions and symbols from algebra, logic, calculus, and more advanced mathematical disciplines. The program is not standalone itself but it does have plenty of text editors built on top of the typesetting system to let you prepare LaTeX documents easily. The provided website already has a list of programs for you to easily refer to a text editor but still here's a list of programs built on top of LaTeX..

  • National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)

    A governing body on facilitating research on advancing scientific and technological breakthroughs. Also provides public access on its publications and data.

  • Papers We Love

    A community on reading and discussing academic computer science papers. The linked hyperlink is a GitHub repo containing a list of local chapters of the community, a list of resources to look for other papers, and a list of links for how to read an academic paper (which is always a very nice feature to include).

  • Researchgate

    An online community of researchers sharing and exploring other academic papers. Also, most published studies under their platform are free to view though you can't join their community unless you've proven your credentials as an academic research student.

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What is Freebies Hunt?

Freebies Hunt is a programmer-oriented and a personal resource list gathered by @foo-dogsquared after having a stroke with open content enthusiasm. This'll help you in finding quality free (and open source) resources to get started doing on your projects (or learnings).

Freebies Hunt is also an open source website which you can see the source code for it right here. Of course, feedbacks and contributions are welcome! 🤗

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If you are looking for an API of this site (for some reason) to get its data, you're in luck! It's available as an npm package. You could also see the source code of it in this remote repo.

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