#research tools

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Enter: Advanced Search on JSTOR.

There's a nifty section there titled "Narrow Results," where you can select the kind of results you're in the market for.

Since I cannot be bothered to read law rn and since my 'useful links' need organising anyways, I think I'm just gonna share these here for anyone interested.

Google dorking is the use of advanced syntax to make incredibly fine-grained searches, potentially exposing information that wasn’t supposed to be on the internet:

Some of my go-to filters are as follows:

“Query” searches for documents that have at least one field containing the exact string.

site: allows for a specific site to be searched. See also inurl and intitle.

type: specifies the tor of resource to look for. Common examples are log files, PDFs, and the sitemap.xml file.

Metasearch engines (such as SearxNG) permit you to access results from several web-crawlers at once, including some for specialized databases. There are several public instances available, as well as some that work over tor, but you can also self-host your own.

IVRE is a self-hosted tool that allows you to create a database of host scans (when I say self-hosted, I mean that you can run this in a docker container on your laptop). This can be useful for finding things that search engines don’t show you, like how two servers are related, where a website lives, etc. I’ve used this tool before, in my investigation into the Canary Mission and its backers.

Spiderfoot is like IVRE, but for social networks. It is also a self-hosted database. I have also used this in the Canary Mission investigation.

Some miscellaneous websites/web tools I use:

SecurityTrails: look up DNS history for a domain

BugMeNot: shared logins for when creating an account is not in your best interest.

Shodan/Censys: you have to make an account for these, so I don’t usually recommend them.

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Hello, all. I've been asked by a few people what research tools I've used for Illuminate: Blackout. Please see the following list. This isn't exhaustive. There are many that I deleted because their contents would inevitably yield narrative spoilers that I'm still unfurling and that won't come to fruition until books 2 or 3. Either way, I think what's provided below is plenty to dig through! Please enjoy and please take care. As a warning, some of the PDFs in the google drive folder have very grisly medical photos and some have content dealing with the physical and psychological affects of sexual assault. Happy writing + happy researching! Please be on the lookout for other websites from my bookmarks! --- GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDER - Full of PDFs organized in sub-folders by subject. This folder also has a word document with over 200 bookmark links in (mostly) alphabetical order. Many links that are pivotal to plot points for book 2/3 were removed. --- RESEARCH WEBSITES:

American Psychological Association

Healthline

IntechOpen - Open-Access Books

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Mayo Clinic

Medscape - Comprehensive clinical information and resource material. Note: You have to register to read the full information on this website. A trick I've learned is that if you're reading an article and you're not registered, go to the print icon on the left of the page (if using computer or tablet) and click 'Print Entire Contents of the Article'. With this, a new window pops up, and you'll be able to read the full contents of an article.

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Oxford Academic

PDFDrive

Psych Scene Hub - A platform where mental health professionals share ideas, cases, and concepts that bridge the gap between academia and the real world, replete with videos and interviews in psychiatry and neurosciences.

Psychology Today

PubMed

ResearchGate - "For the intellectually curious, the seekers of truth, the geeks, the makers: our members offer you a treasure trove of knowledge in areas as diverse as materials science, agriculture, human health, and quantum physics."

Science Direct - Research in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Psychology, and Medicine

Springer Link - Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings.

Very Well Mind + Very Well Health

--- If any of you think of additional tags I should give for this post, please let me know. That, or if I see reblogs I might 'borrow' some tag ideas.

--- Edit as of March 1st, 2022: I am removing my Google Drive folder from this listing and it will no longer be accessible. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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Edit as of Feb 23, 2023: I've adding to the list above for resources:

PDFDrive