CronoDAS comments on Googling is the first step. Consider adding scholarly searches to your arsenal. - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Tenoke 07 May 2013 01:30PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 07 May 2013 08:33:21PM 2 points [-]

The biggest problem with scholarly searches is paywalls. :(

Comment author: Kindly 07 May 2013 08:35:42PM 6 points [-]

If you're only going to read the abstract anyway, I don't think that's a problem; the abstracts are usually in front of the paywall, not behind it.

Comment author: Tenoke 07 May 2013 09:35:39PM *  2 points [-]

This is one of the reasons why I advocate reading the abstracts but I must be slightly alienated because it did not occur to me that people don't know that abstracts are pretty much always free so I merely hinted at that fact. I will edit it in.

Comment author: Locaha 08 May 2013 05:19:27PM 2 points [-]

sci-hub.org

Problem solved. Go now, and be at peace.

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 24 May 2013 11:03:04PM 1 point [-]

No matter what I enter, it just goes to http://www.kremlin.ru/

Am I doing something wrong?

Comment author: Locaha 26 May 2013 08:25:25AM 0 points [-]

PS. You need to enter the URL of the article you want to read.

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 19 June 2013 01:12:32AM 3 points [-]

Update for anyone reading this today: /r/scholar has informed me that US IP addresses are rejected. You'll have to change to a non-US IP if you want it to work.

Comment author: Locaha 26 May 2013 08:24:54AM 0 points [-]

I dunno, just checked, it worked for me.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 May 2013 09:49:34AM *  1 point [-]

I recall a site linked to recently that has many paywalled papers liberated, does anyone recall what it was called?