Internet Goodies
Links to varying freebies around the web!
FREE STREAMING SITES
Free third party streaming sites. Use at your own risk!
FREE EBOOKS + AUDIOBOOK LIBRARIES
Accessible and free eBook and audiobook libraries. Some require library cards.
- OverDrive / Libby (library card)
- Hoopla (library card)
- Biblioboard (library card)
- Project Gutenberg
- ManyBooks
- Planet eBook
- FullBooks
- The Online Books Page
FREE/OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHERS FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Open and free access publisher websites for academic research.
- Internet Archive | Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- PubMed | Comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
- ERIC Institute of Education Sciences | For education literature.
- Directory of Open Access Journals | Over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.
- Directory of Open Access Books | Multilingual and multidisciplinary free ebooks.
- Ubiquity Press | Open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data.
- Europeana | Digital European culture library.
- Digital Public Library of America | Digital American culture library.
- Library of Congress Digital Collections | Millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts.
- Wiley Open Access | Publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines.
- SpringerOpen | All areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences journals.
- Scientific Research Publishing | More than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.
- Sci-Hub | The first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers.
- Z-Library | Here you can always find the relevant information on the available domains for your region.
Internet Archives
Collections of archived internet.
Watch with Friends/Screen Share Sites
Screen sharing sites to use with friends.
Online Browser Games
Games you can play in your browser and without download. Also play with friends!
- Scribbl | Browser game. Guess each others’ drawings.
- Playing Cards | Play any card game with your friends on this virtual tabletop.
- Cards Lacking Originality | A Cards Against Humanity clone.
- Krunker | As a browser game, this is the simplest version of a first-person shooter.
- Jackbox Games | Purchase to play multiplayer games.
- Oregon Trail | One player, but easy to share a screen and play together.
- My Free Bingo Cards | Online bingo.
- Slither | Upgraded version of the classic Snake game.
- Taiko Web | A drumming game that can directly connect with a friend and compete for a high score.
- Retro Games Online | Old console games.
- Surviv | Offers four-player team modes as well as solo sessions.
- Spyfall | You're an FBI detective. Problem: someone in your department is an enemy spy. Your full department has been brought in. You must question each other to discover the spy.
- Scattergories | Quickly fill out a category list with answers that begin with the same letter. Score points if no other player matches your answers. To win the game, score the most points.
- Codenames [rules] | Spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames.
- Colonist | Free online version of Settlers of Catan.
- Webopoly | Webopoly is an free online property trading game you can play in your browser.
- Set with Friends | An online multiplayer card game.
- One Word | This is an online game based on Just One, a co-op word game for 3+ players.
- Longwave | Longwave is an online, real-time adaptation of the Wavelength board game.
Randomizer Websites
Bored website time.
- Recommend Me a Book | Read the first two pages of a random book to see if you like it or not.
- WindowSwap | Open a new window somewhere in the world.
- Random poems on Hello Poetry | Poems on shuffle.
- The Useless Web | Takes you to a useless website.
- Radiooooo | Pick any decade and any country to listen to the music of that time and place.
- Neutral Spaces Lucky Dip | Receive a piece of writing at random from a writer’s portfolio.
- Hedonometer | Measures the happiness of large populations in real time.
- Virtual tours: the Louvre,the Vatican, the Met, the San Diego Zoo | Virtual tours of museums or zoos.
- Eyeshot | Google Maps random street view randomizer.
- Chrome Music Lab | A website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
Chrome Extensions
Chrome-specific handy extensions.
- Podcastle AI | Converts tet news/articles to a podcast.
- Weava Highlighter | Highlight websites and PDFs.
- coffeelings | Personal mini journal and mood tracker.
- Picture-in-Picture Extension | Allows you to watch videos in a floating window while interacting with other sites or applications.
- Dark Reader | Dark mode for every website.
- Todoist for Chrome | Set tasks, make plans, and organize your day.
- Mercury Reader | Removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.
- WebStrike | Easily block websites during worker strikes.
- Visor | Screen dimmer and reading aid, may help with fluency, eye-strain, concentration and comprehension whilst reading.
- AlphaText | Customize and change the appearance of online articles to enhance text readability.
- Shinigami Eyes | Highlights transphobic/anti-LGBT and trans-friendly subreddits/users/facebook pages/groups with different colors.
- Momentum | Replace new tab pages with a personal dashboard featuring to-do, weather, and inspiration.
- Taskade | Team task lists, notes, and video chat.
- LaterBox | Division of tasks by priority, monitors daily activity and progress, monthly productivity reports.
- FlashTabs | A digital flashcard app in your new tab screen.
- The Great Suspender | Make your computer run smoothly by suspending the tabs you aren't using.
Other Peoples’ Google Drives/Masterposts
Misc. Google drives and masterposts by others!