[交流] Tip for you: use an Open Access Repository to find a paper

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. 2.png

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