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AI Quick Tips 372: 5 Research Sources for NotebookLM

Written by Damien Griffin | Aug 29, 2026, 6:00:00 PM

We get a lot of questions about where people can find good-quality sources to use as starting points for NotebookLM notebooks. Of course, this varies wildly depending on your use case(s) but here are 5 sources that are often on the list -

  1. MIT OpenCourseWare - https://ocw.mit.edu/
    1. “An initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere”

  2. Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/
    1. Library of over 75,000 free eBooks

  3. PubMed - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
    1. “PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally”

  4. Data360 (World Bank’s Open Data portal) - https://data.worldbank.org/
    1. “Free and open access to global development data”

  5. IMF (International Monetary Fund) Data - https://data.imf.org/en
    1. Global economic and financial data

 

 

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