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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).*