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Sources worth feeding Gemini Notebook
A notebook is only as good as what you put in it. Every entry below has a copy-ready link — paste it straight into Gemini Notebook's Add source dialog — plus a tip on the cleanest import route for that kind of material.
- 1Copy a link. Use the Copy link button on any source below.
- 2Open Add source. In your notebook: Add source → Website (or Link).
- 3Paste and confirm. You can paste several links at once — one per line.
Academic papers
Gemini Notebook reads the text of the page you give it. Paste pages that carry the full text (an arXiv abs page, a PubMed Central article) — a paywalled landing page imports as just an abstract.
The widest net for finding papers across every field; follow its links to a full-text version before importing.
Preprints for AI, CS, math and physics. Paste the abs page URL as a Website source — figures survive that route better than an uploaded PDF.
AI-assisted paper discovery with citation graphs — good for building the reading list before you build the notebook.
Free full-text biomedical papers — unlike PubMed proper, articles here import complete, not as abstracts.
Working papers in economics, law, finance and the social sciences, most downloadable as full-text PDFs.
Researcher-uploaded papers across every discipline. Useful for finding PDFs that are paywalled elsewhere; an account is needed for downloads.
Academic search engine indexing hundreds of millions of documents. Filter to open access to surface PDFs you can actually upload.
Builds a visual graph of papers related to one you pick. Good for finding what to read next — then add the actual PDFs or abstract pages to Gemini Notebook.
AI search that answers questions with citations to peer-reviewed studies. Use it to shortlist papers, then import the papers themselves as sources.
Aggregator of open-access papers from repositories worldwide — a good first stop for finding a free PDF of a paywalled article.
DOI lookup and metadata for 150M+ scholarly works. Use it to trace citations and find the canonical publisher page before adding a paper as a source.
Research graph linking papers to the grants, patents, clinical trials and policy documents that cite them. Free tier covers basic publication search.
Index of vetted open-access journals in every field. Useful for confirming a journal is legitimate and finding free full-text versions to import.
Free index of theses and dissertations from universities worldwide. Records link to institutional repositories where full-text PDFs are often available.
AI assistant that searches papers and extracts findings into tables. Use it to shortlist studies, then import the underlying papers into Gemini Notebook.
Union catalog for electronic theses and dissertations worldwide. Dissertations run long — import specific chapters as PDFs rather than whole volumes.
Free index of hundreds of millions of scholarly works with citation links. Good for mapping a literature before deciding which papers to import.
Scholar-written reading guides that map the key literature on a topic. Use an entry to decide which papers to pull into your notebook before you start importing.
The biggest collection of dissertations worldwide, with full text for most recent work. Needs institutional access; theses make dense, citable sources.
Stripped-down academic search that filters out commercial results. Useful for surfacing reference pages and documents to add as notebook sources.
Social network where authors upload their own papers. Often has a free full-text copy when the journal version is paywalled — check here before giving up.
Open-access journal network centered on Latin America, with Spanish and Portuguese full text. Good for research the big English-language indexes miss.
Elsevier's citation index for tracking who cites what across peer-reviewed literature. Use it to build a reading list, then import the papers themselves.
Free search over 200M+ scholarly records with patent cross-links — unusual for connecting research papers to the inventions built on them.
Looks up legal open-access versions of paywalled papers. Use it to locate a free PDF you can actually upload to Gemini Notebook.
Subscription citation index for tracing who cites whom across disciplines. Use it to build a reading list, then import the papers themselves.
Data & official records
Gemini Notebook is a reading tool, not a spreadsheet engine — feed it the written reports and summary pages, not raw CSVs, and ask about what the documents say.
Development and economic indicators for every country, each with a written overview page that imports cleanly.
Macroeconomic outlooks and country reports — the Article IV PDFs are dense, citable source material.
Comparative statistics and policy reports across member economies, with strong methodology notes.
Every US public company filing — 10-Ks and 10-Qs make excellent grounded sources for company research.
Long-form, sourced explainers on global trends — article pages import with their context intact.
Statcast data for MLB — pitch tracking, exit velocity, player pages. Export search results as CSV and upload them for stat-grounded notebooks.
Complete MLB history: stats, box scores, and standings back to the 1800s. Player and season pages paste in well as Website sources.
NBA statistics back to the league's founding, including advanced metrics. Player and team pages import as Website sources.
Official US transportation statistics — freight, aviation, border crossings. Download tables as CSVs or grab the report PDFs.
Finder for language corpora and tools held by European research centres. Use it to locate a resource, then import its documentation or texts.
The EU's open data portal spanning member states and institutions. Dataset description pages give Gemini Notebook useful context even when the data itself is CSV.
US federal open data catalog with hundreds of thousands of datasets. Import a dataset's landing page as a Website source to ground answers about the data.
Open repository of curated research datasets, heaviest in biology and medicine. Each dataset's landing page and README summarize methods and variables.
Official EU statistics on economy, population and society. The Statistics Explained articles summarize each dataset and import neatly as Website sources.
Deep soccer statistics — player and team tables, match logs and advanced metrics like xG. Stat pages import as Website sources for sports analysis.
Repository where researchers publish datasets, figures, code and posters with citable DOIs. Useful for finding the supplementary material behind papers.
Free downloadable maps of administrative boundaries for every country, down to municipality level. The standard reference for GIS work and spatial joins.
Searches dataset metadata across thousands of repositories. Use it to locate the source, then import that repository's documentation pages rather than raw data files.
Census microdata from 100+ countries recoded into consistent variables. Free with registration; the variable documentation pages make useful sources.
Community-uploaded datasets on nearly any topic. Import the dataset description and discussion pages for context; raw data files aren't notebook sources.
Repository of research datasets deposited alongside published papers. Handy for pulling the raw data behind a study you've already added to a notebook.
Official team and player numbers for US college sports, season by season. Export tables to CSV for upload rather than pasting the stats pages directly.
Where researchers post preregistrations, preprints, and project files. Project pages often hold the materials and data a published paper leaves out.
Aggregated market and consumer statistics on tens of thousands of topics. Free tier shows headline charts; note the original source each chart cites.
Search US demographic, housing, and business tables. Export a table or import a topic profile page to ground population and market-sizing questions.
Long-running archive of benchmark datasets for machine learning. Each dataset page documents variables and provenance — import the page, not the raw CSV.
One search box over statistics from dozens of UN agencies — population, health, trade, development. A quick starting point for country-level figures.
Road, rail, and inland-waterway transport figures for Europe and nearby regions, served as PXWeb tables you can export to CSV.
Official education, science, and culture indicators for most countries, including SDG tracking. Good grounding for cross-country education comparisons.
Computes answers to math, science, and factual queries rather than linking to pages. Better as a fact-checking sidekick than an importable source.
CERN-run repository where researchers deposit datasets, software, and reports with DOIs. Record pages and their attached PDFs both import easily.
Books & archives
For public-domain books, download the Plain Text file and upload it — the 500,000-words-per-source limit fits most novels whole. ePub uploads are supported too.
75,000+ public-domain books. Grab the Plain Text UTF-8 edition for the cleanest import.
Books, historical documents, magazines and archived websites — much of it downloadable as text or PDF.
Carefully typeset public-domain ePubs — a cleaner starting point than raw scans for literature notebooks.
Transcribed historical texts, speeches and primary documents, page-linked and citable.
Catalog and lending arm of the Internet Archive — useful for finding which editions exist and where.
Digitised manuscripts, maps, and historical newspapers from the UK's national library. Many scans download as PDFs for primary-source work.
Peer-reviewed open-access academic books, most downloadable as PDFs — a legal way to get whole scholarly monographs into a notebook.
Millions of digitized library volumes; public-domain titles are downloadable as full PDFs — a deep well for historical primary texts.
Thousands of open-access academic books, strongest in humanities and social sciences. Full PDFs download freely and upload straight into a notebook.
One search box across open-access scholarly books from many publishers. Read online or grab PDFs to upload as notebook sources.
Quick background on almost any topic. Paste article URLs as Website sources for context, then chase the footnotes for primary material worth importing.
Code & ML research
Documentation pages import better than repositories: paste a project's docs URL or README page, not the repo root.
ML papers matched to their implementations and benchmarks — import the paper page and the README together.
A daily-curated feed of AI research, each paper with a discussion page that adds context.
READMEs, docs folders and wikis are strong sources for how a tool actually works — paste the rendered page URL.
The reference for web platform APIs — reliable ground truth for a web-dev notebook.
Accepted answers on the technical sites make good targeted sources for narrow questions.
Courses & textbooks
Lecture notes and open textbooks are the highest signal-to-noise sources for studying — often better than the slides you were given.
Full courses with downloadable lecture notes and exams — the notes PDFs are ideal notebook sources.
Peer-reviewed open textbooks with free PDF downloads. One textbook chapter per source works well.
Article-format lessons import directly; video lessons come in via their YouTube versions.
University-backed online courses. Course pages and syllabi paste in as Website sources; most lecture video sits behind enrollment.
University courses from MIT, Harvard and 160+ schools, many free to audit. Course syllabi and lecture transcripts can seed a structured learning notebook.
Recorded Yale lecture courses with free syllabi and transcripts. Lecture transcript pages import well when you're studying a subject end to end.
Video & audio
Public YouTube videos with captions import as sources directly, with timestamped citations. For podcasts, upload the audio file — Gemini Notebook transcribes it.
Lectures, talks and interviews — paste the video URL. For whole channels or playlists, see the tools page.
Every talk has a full transcript page — paste that URL for a cleaner import than the video.
Find the episode, download the audio file, upload it as a source — long interviews become quotable, searchable text.
Podcast app with strong discovery for expert shows. Use it to find episodes, then feed transcripts or show-notes pages into your notebook.
Massive podcast catalog with expert interviews on nearly any subject. Audio can't be imported directly — look for episode transcripts or show notes instead.
Home of independent expert newsletters on finance, tech, science and more. Individual post URLs import as Website sources; some posts sit behind paywalls.
Indie film, documentaries, and design reels without the ad noise. Gemini Notebook can't ingest Vimeo video directly, so pair clips with transcripts.
Science & medicine
These sources mix journal PDFs, dataset docs and institutional reports — the PDF or article page imports far better than a paywalled landing page.
Gene-expression and anatomy maps of mouse and human brains. Import the documentation and white papers; the atlases themselves are interactive tools.
Preprints in biology posted before peer review. Free PDFs of the newest life-science results — check whether a published version exists yet.
US public-health datasets from the CDC, exportable as CSV. Pair a dataset export with the topic's fact-sheet PDFs for grounded health notebooks.
EBSCO's index of nursing and allied-health literature. Needs institutional access; export article PDFs through your library to import them.
Registry of clinical studies worldwide. Individual trial record URLs import as Website sources with design, endpoints, and posted results.
Systematic reviews that weigh the medical evidence on a question. Abstracts and plain-language summaries are free; full reviews often need access.
Elsevier's biomedical literature database, strong on drug trials, devices and conference abstracts. Subscription only — usually reached via a university library.
Annotated genomes for vertebrates and model organisms, with variation and comparative data. Gene summary pages make focused sources for genetics questions.
FIFA's testing and research arm for pitches, balls and football technology. Its published standards and studies suit sports science notebooks.
NCBI's open archive of DNA and RNA sequences. Record pages include annotations and publication links useful for genetics notebooks.
IARC's cancer statistics hub: incidence, mortality and prevalence by country and cancer site. The fact sheets import cleanly for epidemiology research.
IHME's catalog of population health data: Global Burden of Disease estimates, surveys, and vital statistics. Good for grounding country-level health comparisons.
WHO search across regional medical literature databases, strong on studies from low- and middle-income countries that PubMed can miss. Many records link to open PDFs.
Journal on physiology and performance in elite athletes — training load, testing, recovery. Abstracts are free; full articles are subscription-only.
Peer-reviewed research spanning biomechanics, physiology, and match analysis in sport. Subscription needed for full text; abstracts import freely.
Preprints in medicine and public health, posted before peer review. Cite with care — flag the unreviewed status in your notebook notes when importing.
The search engine astronomers actually use — millions of astronomy and physics papers. Most records link to arXiv or publisher full text you can import.
Flagship multidisciplinary science journal. News and open-access articles import directly; paywalled papers need institutional access first.
Umbrella for PubMed, MedlinePlus, and vast biomedical collections. Start here to find authoritative health sources worth importing.
Open brain-imaging datasets — MRI, EEG, MEG and more — in standardized BIDS format. Import the dataset descriptions and papers; raw scans stay external.
Large open-access megajournal spanning science and medicine. Every article is free full text, so PDFs import without paywall trouble.
NIH's free chemistry reference — properties, safety and bioactivity for millions of compounds. Individual compound pages work well as Website sources.
Search index for biomedical and life-science literature. Grab the abstract page URL as a Website source, or pull free full text via the PMC links.
3D structures of proteins and nucleic acids. The structure summary pages and linked primary papers are the parts worth importing for structural biology work.
US cancer statistics from the national registry — incidence, survival and trends. The cancer stat facts pages import cleanly for oncology research.
The main index for sports science and sports medicine literature. Subscription via EBSCO — use it to locate papers, then source the full texts elsewhere.
Interactive viewer for genome sequences and annotation tracks. Pull its help pages and track descriptions into a notebook as reference sources.
The reference protein knowledgebase: sequences plus expert-reviewed function annotations. Entry pages import well for molecular biology notebooks.
WHO's indicator database on mortality, disease burden, and health systems worldwide. Country profiles and fact sheets import cleanly as sources.
Environment & earth science
Raw climate and geodata rarely imports directly — bring in the documentation, technical reports and summary pages instead of the datasets themselves.
EU climate reanalysis and projection datasets such as ERA5. Raw data needs processing first; the dataset documentation pages import as sources.
European land-cover maps in 44 classes, tracked since 1990. The GIS data itself won't import; use the product documentation and technical reports.
Open geochemistry, geochronology and petrology datasets from the earth science community. Good grounding for rock and sediment chemistry questions.
Seafloor depth model for Europe's sea basins built from thousands of surveys. The documentation pages work as sources for marine mapping projects.
UN statistics on crops, livestock, land use and food security for 245 countries, with free downloads back to 1961. Strong grounding for agriculture research.
Open records of where species have been observed worldwide — hundreds of millions of occurrences. Species and dataset pages cite the original surveys.
The standard global ocean depth grid, free to download. Its documentation and cookbook pages ground questions about seafloor mapping.
EU JRC grids tracking built-up land and population worldwide across decades. The technical report PDFs import cleanly and explain each layer's methodology.
Energy production, consumption, and emissions statistics by country. Free report PDFs and data explorers; full datasets require a license.
Core samples, borehole logs, and site data from decades of scientific ocean drilling. Expedition reports are open-access and import well as PDFs.
Climate scenario data and socio-economic baselines behind IPCC assessments. Pair its guidance documents with the assessment reports for a grounded climate notebook.
Open seismic waveform archives and station metadata for global earthquake research. Tutorials and data product pages work well as web sources.
Reviewed global earthquake catalogue reaching back to 1900, with relocated hypocentres. Event pages have stable URLs that work as Website sources.
Gateway to NASA's satellite and field observations of Earth. Dataset landing pages and user guides make solid sources for remote-sensing notebooks.
Official US forecasts, warnings, and climate records. Storm summaries and climate report pages import well for weather-event research.
The US archive of climate, ocean, and geophysical records. Monthly climate reports and station data exports ground climate-trend notebooks in real numbers.
UNESCO-backed records of where marine species live and in what numbers. Export occurrence data as CSV to ground marine ecology notebooks.
Interactive map layering geological survey data from countries worldwide. Best paired with survey publications, since the maps themselves don't import.
Earth and environmental science data repository with DOIs. Each dataset's landing page carries methods and metadata that ground climate and ocean research well.
US energy numbers: production, consumption, prices, and forecasts. The Annual Energy Outlook PDFs work especially well as notebook sources.
Portal for Landsat scenes, aerial photos, and land-cover products. The imagery itself won't import, but scene metadata and docs support remote-sensing work.
Searchable record of earthquakes worldwide, historical through near real-time. Filter by magnitude, date, and region, then export events as CSV.
Archive of US geologic maps, reports, and stratigraphic names. Many older survey publications are scanned PDFs that upload straight into a notebook.
Downloadable US elevation, hydrography, and topographic layers. The user guides and layer documentation make useful GIS reference sources.
Historical and projected climate variables by country, plus risk profiles. The country climate summaries work well as Website sources.
NOAA climatologies of ocean temperature, salinity, oxygen, and nutrients. The atlas documentation PDFs are the part worth importing.
Gridded global climate layers, historical and future scenarios, for ecology and GIS modeling. Import the methods pages to document your variables.
AI & technology research
Conference proceedings and lab blogs publish full papers as PDFs or Website pages — those import cleanly and keep citations intact.
Proceedings of a major annual AI conference covering the whole field. Individual paper PDFs from the proceedings work well as sources.
Publisher library for computing research — conference proceedings and journals. Many papers are open access, and those PDFs import directly.
Long-form technical posts on AI safety and alignment research. Individual post URLs work well as Website sources.
Interactive, peer-reviewed explainers of machine learning concepts. Dormant since 2021, but the articles import well as Website sources for ML study notebooks.
Publications and technical blog posts from Google DeepMind. Blog write-ups often summarize a paper more digestibly than the PDF — add both as sources.
ICLR papers with their full peer-review threads on OpenReview. Reviews and author rebuttals add useful critical context alongside the paper PDF.
Journals, conference proceedings, and standards in electrical engineering and computing. Abstracts are open; full PDFs need a subscription or purchase.
Long-running open-access machine learning journal. Every paper is a free PDF with no paywall, making it easy to build ML literature notebooks.
Distributes speech and text corpora for language research and model training. Access is membership-based; corpus documentation pages are freely viewable.
Home of the MLPerf benchmarks for training and inference speed. Results pages and methodology docs anchor notebooks comparing AI hardware and systems.
Peer-reviewed journal on machine learning and AI applications. A curated counterweight to preprints when building an AI literature notebook.
Every paper from the top machine learning conference, back to 1987. Free PDFs make it easy to build a notebook around a research thread across years.
Shared machine learning datasets and benchmark task results with API access. Dataset description pages document provenance for reproducibility notebooks.
Papers plus their full peer-review threads for venues like ICLR. Importing reviews alongside the paper gives a notebook both sides of the argument.
Answer engine that links every claim to a source. Handy for finding candidate URLs to add to a notebook — import the cited pages, not the AI summary itself.
Free full-text papers from ICML, AISTATS, UAI and other ML venues. Direct PDF links with no paywall — easy bulk imports for ML literature reviews.
Long-form essays on AI research written for a technical but general audience. Articles pair well with the papers they discuss in the same notebook.
Open-access ML journal with rolling submissions and public reviews. Each paper has a landing page plus a PDF you can pull straight into a notebook.
Business & finance
Company and market research pages often sit behind a login — the free report PDF or public blog post is usually the importable version.
Professional market data and research behind a subscription. Exported research notes and reports can be uploaded; the terminal itself isn't importable.
Subscription research on startups, venture funding, and tech markets. The free newsletter and public report PDFs are the importable part.
Funding rounds, investor lists and acquisition histories for startups. Company profile pages import cleanly as Website sources for market research notebooks.
Institutional-grade market data, company financials and portfolio analytics. Subscription platform — exported reports can be uploaded as PDF sources.
The St. Louis Fed's collection of 800,000+ economic time series. Series pages document sources and revisions — solid grounding for macro research.
Syndicated consumer survey data on how audiences use social media, video, and devices across markets. Subscribers can export report PDFs for import.
Management and strategy articles grounded in academic research. Paste article URLs as Website sources; the paywall limits free reads per month.
Subscription industry reports covering market size, competitive structure, and forecasts. Report PDFs make strong grounding for market-entry notebooks.
ILO statistics on employment, wages, and working conditions for most countries. Indicator descriptions and country profiles import well as web sources.
Short evidence summaries on labor economics questions — each article weighs pros and cons and ends with a policy takeaway, with a downloadable PDF.
Long-run GDP per capita estimates stretching back two millennia. Download the Excel release and upload it when a notebook needs hard numbers on economic history.
Long-form reports on productivity, technology, and the global economy. The PDF downloads work well as grounded sources for market and strategy notebooks.
Subscription database of company financials, filings, and executive data. Export report PDFs through a library login to feed company-research notebooks.
Market, economic, and alternative data feeds for quant work. Export CSVs from the free tier and upload them to ground financial analysis notebooks.
Working papers from leading economists, often years ahead of journal publication. Paper PDFs are ideal grounded sources for economics notebooks.
The standard dataset for comparing GDP and productivity across countries back to 1950. Grab the documentation PDF too — it explains what each variable means.
VC, PE and M&A deal data behind a subscription. Its free blog and annual reports are still worth importing for private-market context.
Financials and deal intelligence on US private companies that don't file publicly. Subscription product aimed at diligence and market sizing.
Volunteer-run index of economics working papers and journals. Most entries link free author PDFs — often the fastest route to an econ paper's full text.
Institutional-grade company financials, transactions and screening from S&P. Exported reports can feed a notebook; access is subscription-only.
Consumer and media insights from Google's marketing team. Individual article and report pages import cleanly as Website sources for campaign research.
US employment, wage, and inflation data. CPI releases and occupational outlooks make solid grounded sources for labor-market and economics research.
Reports on European football's finances, transfers, and club landscape. The annual landscape report PDFs import directly as grounded sources.
Bilateral import and export statistics for most countries back to 1962. Query results export to CSV; the free tier covers basic pulls.
Country-by-industry series on manufacturing output, value added, and employment. A subscription is required for full data downloads.
UNU-WIDER's collection of Gini coefficients and income-share measures for 200+ countries. Grab the dataset with its companion documentation.
Paid audience-segmentation tool covering media habits, attitudes, and demographics. Exported reports can ground marketing personas in a notebook.
History & humanities
Archives return scans and item pages rather than clean text — look for a transcript, PDF, or article summary before importing the artifact page itself.
Search millions of digitized items from American libraries, archives and museums in one place. Handy for locating primary sources on US history topics.
Digitized art, books, photos and artifacts from European cultural institutions. Item pages carry rich metadata for history and heritage research.
Licensed archives of historical newspapers, government records and rare books. Access runs through subscribing libraries; downloaded scans can be uploaded.
Archive of scholarly journals and books, strongest in humanities and social science. Downloaded article PDFs import cleanly as sources.
Digitized manuscripts, maps, newspapers, and photographs from the US national library. Item pages and scanned documents are free primary sources.
Greek and Latin classics side by side with English translations. Individual text pages import cleanly as Website sources for classics research notebooks.
The standard index for finding scholarship on literature, language, and folklore. Use it via a library to locate papers, then import the full texts you find.
The IOC's archive of official reports and research on the Games. Digitized documents suit notebooks on sports history and Olympic policy.
Greek and Latin classics with English translations and commentary. Individual text pages import cleanly as Website sources for classics study.
The go-to index for philosophy literature, with category-based browsing. Many entries link open-access PDFs you can drop straight into a notebook.
University-press journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. A growing open-access subset imports freely; the rest needs library access.
Rigorous, regularly updated philosophy articles written by specialists. Each entry is a self-contained Website source that anchors a topic well.
Law & government
Government sites publish authenticated PDFs of bills, filings and records — import those directly rather than a search results page.
US bills, laws, and congressional records straight from the source. Bill text pages and PDFs import well for legislative research.
Free worldwide patent search from the European Patent Office. Patent PDFs upload well for prior-art review and technology landscape notebooks.
US Government Publishing Office archive: bills, the Federal Register, congressional records, and court documents, all as authenticated PDFs ready to upload.
Subscription archive of law reviews, session laws, and treaties stored as page-image PDFs. Check that downloads have a text layer before uploading.
Look up any ISO standard's scope, terms, and definitions for free; full standard texts must be purchased. Good for pinning down exact terminology.
Free US case law, codes, and regulations with clean permanent URLs. Paste opinion pages as Website sources for legal research notebooks.
Subscription research service for case law, statutes, and news archives. Export documents as PDFs to bring vetted legal sources into a notebook.
Every US Supreme Court slip opinion straight from the Court, as free PDFs. Primary-source material that grounds legal research better than commentary.
Full-text search across US patents and applications. Save a patent as PDF and upload it — claims and specifications ground prior-art questions well.
Search international PCT filings alongside dozens of national patent collections. Documents download as PDFs for patent-landscape notebooks.
Psychology & social science
Survey and study sites often gate the raw dataset — the summary report or working-paper PDF is what actually imports as a source.
Repeated public-opinion surveys across African countries on democracy and governance. Its briefing papers and summary PDFs make solid grounded sources.
The APA's database of psychology journals and books. Abstracts are open; full text usually needs institutional access before you can import a PDF.
Transcripts and recordings of child-caregiver speech used in language-acquisition research. Transcript files upload as plain-text sources.
The US Department of Education's index of over a million education studies. Many records include free full-text PDFs you can upload directly.
Two decades of cross-national survey data on European attitudes and values. Topline reports and questionnaires make good grounded sources; data is free.
Long-running opinion polls and workplace research. Many topline articles are free and import as Website sources; detailed reports are paid.
University of Michigan archive of social science studies with rich codebooks. Import the codebook and methodology PDFs; datasets need a free account.
Publishes peer-reviewed data papers describing reusable psychology datasets. Each paper documents collection methods — good methodological grounding.
Yearly surveys of political attitudes across Latin America since 1995. Annual report PDFs are free and summarize findings country by country.
Raw survey data behind the international student assessment rankings. The country reports and technical PDFs are the most notebook-friendly entry point.
The UK regulator's yearly study of online behaviour — social, video, and creator platforms. Report PDFs are strong evidence sources on digital media use.
Survey research on US public opinion, demographics and tech use. Report pages and downloadable topline PDFs both make solid grounded sources.
Democracy indices for 200+ countries stretching back to 1789. The codebook and country reports are the pieces worth importing alongside the data.
Decades of comparable survey data on beliefs and values in nearly 100 countries. Questionnaires and findings reports make strong social-science sources.
News & current events
Import individual article URLs, not a homepage or section front — Gemini Notebook needs the full article text, not a list of headlines.
Shows how left, center, and right outlets cover the same story. Handy for pulling contrasting articles into one notebook to compare framing.
Wire-service reporting with minimal spin. Article URLs import cleanly as Website sources for current-events notebooks.
Global reporting and explainers in dozens of languages. Article URLs make reliable Website sources for news notebooks.
Compares how left, center, and right outlets cover the same story. Useful for pulling contrasting article sets into a notebook on a contested topic.
Investigative reporting that publishes its underlying documents and databases. Import both the story and its source records for well-grounded notebooks.
Wire service known for fast, sober reporting on world and financial news. Article pages import well when you need a dated factual record of events.
Oxford's yearly survey of how people find and pay for news across dozens of countries. The free full-report PDF is a strong single source on media habits.
UK-based daily with no paywall and deep science, climate and culture desks. Reliable article imports when you need free full-text news coverage.
Creative & media industry
Trend reports and platform blog posts are the importable layer here — the underlying dashboards and raw analytics tools are not.
Instagram's own trend reports on Gen Z culture and creator behavior, published on the company blog. Handy primary material for marketing notebooks.
Large-sample research on how posts actually perform on Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms. Useful benchmark sources for social media strategy notebooks.
Viewership data for streaming platforms, including the monthly Gauge report. The public report pages are citable sources for media-industry notebooks.
Search engine for hundreds of millions of openly licensed images and audio files, with license details for proper attribution in your projects.
Live rankings of trending hashtags, sounds, and top-performing ads by country. Useful grounding for short-form content strategy notebooks.
Everything listed is legitimately free to access. Check the license before republishing what a notebook produces from these materials — free to read is not always free to redistribute.