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searching or downloading research papers
Here is a supporting content for searching or downloading research papers (with their specific uses):
### Websites and Tools
- **Consensus**: https://get.consensus.app/neha
*AI-powered search and summarization tool; highlights open-access status and offers free Pro trial for research paper search.*
- **Arxiv**: https://arxiv.org/
*Preprint repository for free academic papers in physics, computer science, math, and more.*
- **Biorxiv**: https://www.biorxiv.org/
*Preprint server specializing in biology; early versions of research papers, always free.*
- **SSRN**: https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/
*Preprint archive for social sciences and interdisciplinary work.*
- **BASE**: https://www.base-search.net/
*Aggregates millions of scholarly documents from institutional repositories, many free/full-text.*
### Additional Scholarly Search and Access Methods
- **Google Scholar**: https://scholar.google.com/
*Find review papers, direct download of PDFs, and citation tracking.*
- **Unpaywall**: https://unpaywall.org/
*Browser extension to find legal open-access versions of paywalled articles.*
- **CORE**: https://core.ac.uk/
*Repository and aggregator for open-access research papers/postprints.*
- **Institutional Repositories**:
*Examples include:*
- **MIT DSpace**: https://dspace.mit.edu/
- **Harvard DASH**: https://dash.harvard.edu/
- **NUS ScholarBank**: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/
- **ResearchGate**: https://www.researchgate.net/
*Author-uploaded versions, direct requests to authors.*
- **E-Shodh Sindhu**: https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/
*India’s government consortium for college/university journal access.*
- **Perplexity**: https://www.perplexity.ai/
*Used for source discovery/information gathering, as mentioned by viewers.*
- **Scispace**: https://typeset.io/ (Scispace)
*AI-powered research assistant (compared with Consensus in comments).*
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