• Canva: A simple, drag-and-drop, design software that’s completely online and free to use.
• Infogram: Infogr.am is user-friendly interface to help develop creative, interactive infographics.
• Piktochart: Piktochart is a simple WYSIWYG editor to help develop and design charts and infographics.
• Easel.ly: A digital canvas to help develop unique data visualisations.
• Google Fusion Tables: Bust your data out of its silo! Combine it with other data on the web. Collaborate, visualize and share.
• Visual.ly: Create, share and explore great visual content.
• Tableau Software: A free data visualisation tool that can help you create an interactive viz and embed it in your website or share it. Anyone can do it, it’s that easy—and it’s free.
• Datawrapper: An open source tool helping anyone to create simple, correct and embeddable charts in minutes.
• SwayWhat: A platform for creating, sharing and finding data.
• VIDI: A suite of powerful intuitive Drupal data-visualisation modules for anyone to use on any standard set of data ranging from government databases to demographics and statistics.
• IBM Many Eyes: Collection of data visualisations, and a tool for infographics.
• Gapminder: Is a non-profit venture to help make public data from several multi-national organisations accessible.
• D3.js: D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS.
• Maps expalining the World at Wasington Post

2. Data visualisation blogs and resources

 

VI. FREE e-books in the internet

1. Greek e-books

•  http://gigapedia.com/
•  http://www.free-ebooks.net/
•  http://www.scribd.com/
•  http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
•  http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainText.aspx
•  http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
•  http://www.iue.it/LIB/ElectronicResources/ebooks.shtml
•  http://paulocoelhoblog.com/pirate-coelho/
•  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
•  http://www.wattpad.com/
•  http://www.archive.org/details/texts
•  http://www.howtogeek.com/news/download-the-entire-national-academies-press-library-for-free/5152/
• http://libgen.org 

•  http://www.openculture.com/2006/10/audio_book_podc.html
•  http://www.audioowl.com/
•  http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/
•  http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/

•  http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/28
•  http://www.bookmooch.com/

 

• http://www.corfuhistory.eu/

 

VII. SCIENCE AND ORTHODOXY

1. Orthodox sites

• Δόγμα
• The Orthodox Church
• Orthodox Christianity and the World 
• Eastern Orthodox Christian Forum
• Indian Orthodox
• The Voice of Orthodoxy
• The Orthodox Tube
• Orthodoxy in Switzerland
• The Orthodox Internet
• Orthodox Botswana

2. Universities and Research Centers

• St. Tikhon's Orthodox University
• The Orthodox Christian Resource Center

   

VIΙI. OPEN DATA

The World Bank Open Knowledge Center (OKR)

 

IX. ACADEMIC JOURNALS QUALITY

The International Guide to Academic Journal Quality (The Guide)

Business Research Plus Data

 

X. FUNDING

Horizon 2020 Project Funding

Fundnet Services [Fundraising & Grants Directory provided at no cost to our visitors. Since 1996 Fundsnet Services has provided resources information about grants, fundraising, philanthropy, foundations and non-profits organizations to those in need of funding and research for their their philanthropic efforts and missions].

Crowdfunding

These 10 crowdfunding sites cover most campaign types or funding goals you might have. Whether you’re looking to fundraise or not, go check out the sites here that grab your attention and get involved in this collaborative community.

1. Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a site where creative projects raise donation-based funding. These projects can range from new creative products, like an art installation, to a cool watch, to pre-selling a music album. It’s not for businesses, causes, charities, or personal financing needs. Kickstarter is one of the earlier platforms, and has experienced strong growth and many break-out large campaigns in the last few years.

2. Indiegogo
While Kickstarter maintains a tighter focus and curates the creative projects approved on its site, Indiegogo approves donation-based fundraising campaigns for most anything — music, hobbyists, personal finance needs, charities and whatever else you could think of (except investment). They have had international growth because of their flexibility, broad approach and their early start in the industry.

3. Crowdfunder
Crowdfunder.com is the platform for raising investment (not rewards), and has a one of the largest and fastest growing network of investors. After getting rewards-based funding on Kickstarter or Indiegogo, companies are often giving the crowd the opportunity to invest at Crowdfunder to raise more formal Seed & Series A rounds. Crowdfunder offers equity crowdfunding currently only from individuals + angels + VCs, and was a leading participant in the JOBS Act legislation.

4. RocketHub
Rockethub powers donation-based funding for a wide variety of creative projects. What’s unique about RocketHub is their FuelPad and LaunchPad programs that help campaign owners and potential promotion and marketing partners connect and collaborate for the success of a campaign.

5. Crowdrise
Crowdrise is a place for donation-based funding for Causes and Charity. They’ve attracted a community of do-gooders and and fund all kinds of inspiring causes and needs. A unique Points System on Crowdrise helps track and reveal how much charitable impact members and organizations are making.

6. Somolend
Somolend is a site for lending for small businesses in the US, providing debt-based investment funding to qualified businesses with existing operations and revenue. Somolend has partnered with banks to provide loans, as well as helping small business owners bring their friends and family into the effort.

With their Midwest roots, a strong founder who was a leading participant in the JOBS Act legislation, and their focus and lead in the local small business market, Somolend has begun expanding into multiple cities and markets in the US.

7. appbackr
If you want to build the next new mobile app and are seeking donation-based funding to get things off the ground or growing, then check out appbackr and their niche community for mobile app development.

8. AngelList
If you’re a tech startup with a shiny lead investor already signed on, or looking for for Silicon Valley momentum, then there are angels and institutions finding investments through AngelList. For a long while AngelList didn’t say that they did crowdfunding, which makes sense as they have catered to the investment establishment of VCs in tech startups, but now they’re getting into the game. The accredited investors and institutions on AngelList have been funding a growing number of top tech startup deals.

9. Invested.in
You might want to create your own crowdfunding community to support donation-based fundraising for a specific group or niche in the market. Invested.in is a Venice, CA based company that is a top name “white label” software provider, giving you the tools to get started and grow your own.

10. Quirky
If you’re an inventor, maker, or tinkerer of some kind then Quirky is a place to collaborate and crowdfund for donation-based funding with a community of other like-minded folks. Their site digs deeper into helping the process of bringing an invention or product to life, allowing community participation in the process.

Fundraising Software

Capterra

XI. ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINES

A collection to discover the very best search engine for finding the academic results you’re looking for.

General

Need to get started with a more broad search? These academic search engines are great resources.

1. iSEEK Education:iSeek is an excellent targeted search engine, designed especially for students, teachers, administrators, and caregivers. Find authoritative, intelligent, and time-saving resources in a safe, editor-reviewed environment with iSEEK.
2. RefSeek:With more than 1 billion documents, web pages, books, journals, newspapers, and more, RefSeek offers authoritative resources in just about any subject, without all of the mess of sponsored links and commercial results.
3. Virtual LRC:The Virtual Learning Resources Center has created a custom Google search, featuring only the best of academic information websites. This search is curated by teachers and library professionals around the world to share great resources for academic projects.
4. Academic Index:This scholarly search engine and web directory was created just for college students. The websites in this index are selected by librarians, teachers, and educational consortia. Be sure to check out their research guides for history, health, criminal justice, and more.
5. BUBL LINK:If you love the Dewey Decimal system, this Internet resource catalog is a great resource. Search using your own keywords, or browse subject areas with Dewey subject menus.
6. Digital Library of the Commons Repository:Check out the DLC to find international literature including free and open access full-text articles, papers, and dissertations.
7. OAIster:Search the OAIster database to find millions of digital resources from thousands of contributors, especially open access resources.
8. Internet Public Library:Find resources by subject through the Internet Public Library’s database.
9. Infomine:The Infomine is an incredible tool for finding scholarly Internet resource collections, especially in the sciences.
10. Microsoft Academic Search:Microsoft’s academic search engine offers access to more than 38 million different publications, with features including maps, graphing, trends, and paths that show how authors are connected.
11. Google Correlate:Google’s super cool search tool will allow you to find searches that correlate with real-world data.
12. Wolfram|Alpha:Using expert-level knowledge, this search engine doesn’t just find links; it answers questions, does analysis, and generates reports.

13. GeolabInstitute facebook page

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