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  | 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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