Explore
Academia and Documentaries. All Basic Useful Links
👓 A general rule
Search your interests and check the sources, ie. the communication
channels and agents. Then look into them!
🤠 Popular Science
Watch or Listen
- YouTube / Castbox / search > topic +
documentary/doc/webinar/lecture/podcast/review/conference/presentation
examples
- BigThink
- VICE
- random narrow-focused webinars/podcasts/presentations, eg. how to
differentiate butterflies - older hobbyists
- random narrow-focused documentalistic shots, eg. hunt, travel vlogs,
local reportages about crime and court, amateur city tours
examples (RU)
- Живая Природа
- Живой Гвоздь
Books
RU
📗 Online Encyclopedias
📰 Journals and Publishers
Search your interests and note the source.
- search > person + interview/podcast/letters
- search > title/keywords + article/review/analysis/journal
- a producing agent > their own media
- a person > their social profiles, their communications
elsewhere
- an article you found > where it’s published
- a work on Wikipedia > Criticism > where that criticism was
published
- a writer of any kind, a person on Wikipedia > where they got
published or their interviews
Journals
RU
Publishers
Examples (RU)
- Ad Marginem
- Эксмо
- Манн Иванов и Фербер
🔎 Find Papers (Databases
and Libraries)
RU
🏴☠️ Piracy
Shadow Libraries
- LibGen
- Z-Lib > create the Telegram bot through the website
- Sci-Hub (papers only)
- Anna’s Archive > check “external downloads” (might be
faster)
🐤 Introductions to a Subject
- database/Reddit >
textbook/introduction/introductory/dictionary/encyclopedia/history/review/course/workbook/exercises/exam
- search online or on specific universities’ websites >
curriculum/syllabus/ study plan/ exam topics, pdf, reading list