{"id":11968,"date":"2023-05-02T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2023-05-02T02:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:00:59","slug":"how-to-find-scientific-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2023\/05\/how-to-find-scientific-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"How to find scientific literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since there are many readers who ask, let me present you the super simple guide of how to find that scientific work you are looking for:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11969\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-find-scientific-literature.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2728\" height=\"1996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-find-scientific-literature.png 2728w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-find-scientific-literature-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-find-scientific-literature-1024x749.png 1024w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-find-scientific-literature-768x562.png 768w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-find-scientific-literature-1536x1124.png 1536w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-find-scientific-literature-2048x1498.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2728px) 100vw, 2728px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You follow them in order. Start with the easiest methods, and if it fails or doesn&#8217;t apply, try the next one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SciHub<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2018\/04\/how-to-use-sci-hub-to-get-academics-papers-for-free\/\">SciHub (Science Hub) is a pirate site<\/a> (download stuff for free) with many parallel domains. Some currently working ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.ru\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.ru\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.it.nf\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.it.nf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.wf\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.wf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If it doesn&#8217;t work, try with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proxysite.com\/\">webproxy like this one<\/a>, or with a VPN. They are sometimes blocked in some but not other countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sci-Hub only works for stuff that has a DOI (those IDs that start with &#8220;10.&#8221;). If the work you want doesn&#8217;t have it, go to the next method.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LibGen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2018\/04\/how-to-download-ebooks-from-library-genesis-libgen-for-free\/\">LibGen (Library Genesis)<\/a> is another pirate site like SciHub, but for books. There are many mirrors (parallel websites) and these sometimes stop working. These currently work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libgen.rs\/\">http:\/\/libgen.rs\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/annas-archive.org\/\">https:\/\/annas-archive.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/z-lib.is\/\">https:\/\/z-lib.is\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zlibrary.to\/\">https:\/\/zlibrary.to\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Google advanced search<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You use <a href=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/google-advanced-search-operators\/\">Google&#8217;s advanced search<\/a> by using various keywords, e.g.:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11970\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-advanced-search-example.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2436\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-advanced-search-example.png 2436w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-advanced-search-example-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-advanced-search-example-1024x367.png 1024w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-advanced-search-example-768x276.png 768w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-advanced-search-example-1536x551.png 1536w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-advanced-search-example-2048x735.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2436px) 100vw, 2436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is also what you use to search <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\">archive.org<\/a> because the site&#8217;s own search engine is terrible, e.g.:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11971\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive.org-search-example.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2418\" height=\"1966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive.org-search-example.png 2418w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive.org-search-example-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive.org-search-example-1024x833.png 1024w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive.org-search-example-768x624.png 768w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive.org-search-example-1536x1249.png 1536w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive.org-search-example-2048x1665.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2418px) 100vw, 2418px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>If you need more advanced help<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gwern.net\/search\">Gwern has an in-depth guide here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since there are many readers who ask, let me present you the super simple guide of how to find that scientific work you are looking for: You follow them in order. Start with the easiest methods, and if it fails or doesn&#8217;t apply, try the next one. SciHub SciHub (Science Hub) is a pirate site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[2628,3299,3006],"class_list":["post-11968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-libgen","tag-scihub","tag-searching","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11972,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions\/11972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}