Lycos is a survivor. Established in 1995, we were originally a search engine — before most people even knew what a "search engine" was.

ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day.

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About BookFinder.com

BookFinder.com is a one-stop ecommerce search engine that searches over 150 million books for sale—new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks. We save you time and money by searching every major catalog online, and letting you know which booksellers are offering the best prices and selection. When you find a book you like, you can buy it directly from the original seller; we never charge a markup.

The Google Scholar easy way to search for expanded research work needed by researchers and scholars. From one place, you can search across many fields of science and sources of information: credit research and theses, books, abstracts and articles from academic publishers, specialized associations and centers collect information before printing, universities and other institutions for scientific research. Helps Google Scholar to identify the most relevant scientific research in the field of search in the world of scientific research.

Baen Books is now making available — for free — a number of its titles in electronic format. We're calling it the Baen Free Library. Anyone who wishes can read these titles online — no conditions, no strings attached. (Later we may ask for an extremely simple, name & email only, registration. ) Or, if you prefer, you can download the books in one of several formats. Again, with no conditions or strings attached. (URLs to sites which offer the readers for these format are also listed.

Listing over 1 million free books on the Web

Our goal is to be «The Library To The World», a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be free to anyone who has an internet connection.