A Research Tip From A Friendly Neighborhood Librarian! 

Do you ever read so much gay fanfiction that you forget that straight people are a thing because I sure do

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Cobb's limbo

Inception ends in a cliffhanger. Where the totem spins and is about to stumble (or not). The intensity of such an uncertainty is paramount, but we did make our peace with it. It's a unique feeling of homecoming that plays with our minds, when he ignores the totem and proceeds greet his children. For in his mind, he's home. Not the physical presence, but the mental satisfaction. Limbo it might be, but he's not leaving. For he's where he feels home, the place he has built, nurtured and guarded. This is his zero. His beginning. His end. Our limbo is the reflection of our circle of comfort. Our view of what makes us feel at home. Getting out of it is the real world. The adventure. The difficulty of surviving. So do you stay in limbo? Do you leave? Or do you bring in new elements in and make then your own?

My Mind in its Abstract Splendour

The “Alternate Life” Juxtaposition

My next entry focuses on the various forks in life, the so-called “what-ifs” that we so deny to talk about but haunts us in the times of

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DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome?  Research.  You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects.  Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks.  Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more.  Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana-  Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free!  And legal!  They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access- Science things!  Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen-  Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access-  Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this.  Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.

You sir/ma'am/entity, are what we expect from now on

Yes exactly why

No one :

Absolutely no one :

Indian guys while walking :

I stand corrected. I still wanna be him tho

HP fandom: Hermione’s clearly a morosexual. I mean, she fancies Ron!

Ron Weasley: *is a literal chess master*

Ron Weasley: *is a strategic genius*

Ron Weasley: *is incredibly knowledgeable about the wizarding world*

Ron Weasley: *suspected that Lockhart was a fraud months before it was revealed*

Ron Weasley: *noticed Hermione’s weird behaviour due to the time turner when virtually no-one else did*

Ron Weasley: *suspected the horcrux being alive before both Harry and Hermione did*

Ron Weasley: *suspected the taboo on Voldemort’s name before both Harry and Hermione did*

Ron Weasley: *came up with the idea to get the basilisk fangs to destroy the horcruxes*

Ron Weasley: *remembered the house-elves during the battle of Hogwarts when even Hermione forgot*

Ron Weasley: *has repeatedly proved how smart, capable and intelligent he is, despite not being especially studious*