Research Tools
Up one levelUseful resources for research, including links to online libraries and catelogues, ranging from agriculture to policy. Many provide free access to full-texts.
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Demos Online Catalogue
- Demos is an innovative UK based policy think-tank. Their entire catalogue can be found online and is open source. Recent titles ranges from Rebuilding the Public Realm, Disorganisation,Capturing Cultural Value and The Risk Management of Everything.
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Multiversity Library
- MultiversityLibrary.com offers scholars, intellectuals, teachers and students electronic access to some of the most significant literature produced by people of colour from Asia, Africa and South America. Books range from Esteva's Grassroots Postmodernism to Nandy's The Intimate Enemy.
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Open Democracy
- openDemocracy.net is an online global magazine of politics and culture. Written by and for people across the world, from South and North, from the powerless to the influential, Open Democracy seeks to bring together those who are not well-known with writers and thinkers of international repute. The site includes over 1,500 articles.
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Prickly Paradigm
- The online catalogue for Prickly Paradigm Press, where a number of publications are available for free download. Authors range from Bruno Latour to Richard Rorty.
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Shikshantar Learning Resources
- Resources and references to material on Development, Modernity and Globalization, Critiques of Factory Schooling, New Directions for Societal Learning and much more.
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Soil & Health Library
- This is a specialist library about holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living. Most of the titles in this library are out of print. Many are quite hard to find. There are four sections: Radical Agriculture, The Restoration and Maintenance of Health, Achieving Personal Sovereignty and Achieving Spiritual Freedom.
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Wikipedia
- The free-content encyclopedia (that anyone can edit) with excellent content. Available in multiple languages.