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title: "AI Quick Tips 372: 5 Research Sources for NotebookLM"
description: Discover five valuable research sources for enhancing your NotebookLM experience, from MIT OpenCourseWare to global economic data portals.
---

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# [AI Quick Tips 372: 5 Research Sources for NotebookLM](https://thoughtsbrewing.com/blog/ai-quick-tips-372-5-research-sources-for-notebooklm)

 Written by [Damien Griffin](https://thoughtsbrewing.com/blog/author/damien) | 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/](https://ocw.mit.edu/)
2. Project Gutenberg - [https://www.gutenberg.org/](https://www.gutenberg.org/)
3. PubMed - [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
4. Data360 (World Bank’s Open Data portal) - [https://data.worldbank.org/](https://data.worldbank.org/)
5. IMF (International Monetary Fund) Data - [https://data.imf.org/en](https://data.imf.org/en)

 

 

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