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How to Study at Home
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- Are you interested in knowledge for knowledge’s sake?
- Are you interested in a new body of information that you can share with others as it is needed in order to be helpful to your community?
- Do you want to learn a more vocational body of knowledge or skill set?
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What to Read
- Black Perspectives: This is the blog of the African-American Intellectual History Society. It publishes a range of posts and commentaries about Black history and scholarship. While the website is primarily useful as a source for historical information and analysis, there are plenty of available syllabi, including lesson plans concerning prison abolition, welfare reform, anti-Black racism in medicine, and Charleston.
- Decolonizing Conservation: Sara Cannon, a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of British Columbia, created this reading list for non-Indigenous conservation scientists and others to more carefully consider the relationship between conservation biology and colonialism.
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- BAR Book Forum: Part of the Black Agenda Report, BAR Book Forum is an incredibly curated selection of reviews and conversations with thinkers, writers, and authors on a wide range of topics around African and Afro-diasporic issues.
- Nature: The "Books and Culture" section on offer contains prescient reviews and commentaries about contemporary and historical scientific issues, debates, and politics.
- All Monuments Must Fall: This collaboratively produced syllabus emerged to offer analysis for the Black-led uprisings to topple racist monuments and memories in the United States, as well as a broadly international lens around racial geographies.
- Decolonizing Science: This helpful reading list by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein relates science to colonial harm, specifically oriented towards the debate around the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the Mauna Kea and indigenous land sovereignty.
- TED Ideas' Math 101: The purpose of popular mathematics, which are reflected in the books suggested on this list, are a useful way of approaching and better understanding mathematical thinking.
- The Standing Rock syllabus: This is a downloadable syllabus created by the NYC Stands for Standing Rock committee, which compiled a number of written works about both the Dakota Access Pipeline and histories of Indigenous resistance in the U.S. more broadly.
- Nursing Clio: This is an open-access peer-reviewed project about issues related to gender and medicine. The website compiles a list of relevant digitized archival collections, teaching resources, exhibits, and online platforms.
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- The Directory of Open Access Journals, a database containing 12,000 different journals in science, technology, medicine, the humanities, and social science
- Free Medical Journals, an archive of over 5,000 full-text medical journals
- PubMed Central, a free full-text archive of the medical and life sciences literature contained in the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine
- Biomed Central, a full-text archive of biomedical science research
- JSTOR, an invaluable source for free articles across disciplines—it has an open-access site
- Google Scholar, which can yield free PDF versions of articles of interest
- Manchester University Press, an impressive open-access collection of both books and journals in the social science and humanities
- Unpaywall, a useful app which legally redirects you to a free version of a journal article if you happen to encounter a paywalled one
- Academia.edu and ResearchGate, websites where academics upload and circulate their work; the former is accessible with a Google account, and the latter permits non-academics and non-scientists to access their large database of papers
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- Project Gutenberg, one of the largest and oldest sources for free ebooks
- ManyBooks, a library of multi-genre public domain books (i.e., books to which intellectual property rights do not apply, because they were created before copyright existed)
- LibriVox, a collection of free public domain audiobooks in multiple languages
- The International Children’s Digital Library, which offers a global collection of children's books in multiple languages from around the world
- Online Books, a digital library of books, research publications, and archival collections all maintained by the University of Pennsylvania
Free (And Cheap) Courses You Can Take
- Khan Academy, a video-based resource for instruction for math and science topics for mostly secondary school and university levels
- OpenCulture, an open-source platform where you can download courses via ebooks, audiobooks, videos, and other materials
- Duolingo and Memrise, two popular free apps for basic language learning—and here is a list of paid apps that are subscription-based or have a relatively low monthly cost