Dear friends and followers:

I would like to share a tip today about directly finding a free paper in a repository. I hope this method is new for you, so may learn something new.

- A scientific manuscript repository is a (digital) place where papers are stored. Institutions (ie Universities) have repositories, normally managed by the libraries.
- If you conduct research at your institution and you publish an article, you can deposit it there after publication to make it "discoverable" by search engines.
- These institutional repositories are normally free to access.

I will illustrate its use in 4 steps. Let's say you need a manuscript that you cannot find. See Figure below

1) First, identify the institutional affiliation of the corresponding author of the manuscript. As an example I would assume the author was affiliated with the University of Michigan in the USA.
2) Go to the Registry of Open Access Repositories    https://roar.eprints.org/cgi/search/advanced     and search "University of Michigan".
3) Click on link in results and go to repository web page
4) Enter author name and perhaps you will find author papers

Notes:
- there are thousands of repositories all over the world
- free to access and download, they are Open Access
- fast alternative method to possible find your article
- not all articles are available in these repositories

Good luck. Follow me here in the forum if you want.
If you have a topic and want me to post a little tip like this, let me know. Perhaps I can do it next.




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