Keeping Up With Research Papers

[Technoid]

Here's some technical assistance with keeping up with new research papers on B12 or PA.

You can do this by by setting up alerts via either Google Scholar or PubMed. You select a keyword and new studies mentioning that term will then pop into your email inbox as soon as they released!

More details on how to do it at:

Google Scholar:

nihlibrary.nih.gov/resource...

PubMed:

nihlibrary.nih.gov/resource...

I've been using the Google Scholar alerts recently and find them very useful. Quite straighforward to setup.

[helvella]

The issue is that, whatever alerts you get, you all too often cannot get the paper itself. Sometimes not even an abstract or summary. Which rather defeats much of the reason for being alerted to them!

Far too many are protected by insurmountable paywalls.

[Technoid in reply to helvella]

Some do turn up on certain em, nefarious sites that collect such papers but I havent used the service long enough to get a good feel for how many will be retrievable in this way.

[helvella in reply to Technoid]

One nefarious site appears no longer to exist.

Have to say, I feel that blocking patients from information that could be life-changing feels unethical and immoral. Especially when so much that goes into research is funded by governments, etc. And even when the specific paper was not so funded, it relies on decades of papers and research that was.

[Technoid in reply to helvella]

Yes! its outrageous. I am reminded of Aaron Swartz, RIP.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06...(Not working as expected?)

[jade_s in reply to helvella]

It still exists. But providers may be blocking it. You may need a VPN to access it

[Rexz in reply to helvella]

Often I take from the alert and copy the title into google search and it will list other sources for the same document...

[helvella in reply to Rexz]

It can happen - but all too often they simply are not accessible anywhere.

Ironically it can be especially bad for short items (e.g. letters to journals), and older items (when not transferred in bulk). No-one really bothers yet some of them have important observations.

[Rexz in reply to helvella]

Yep, there are those that just are ill call it vapor. Then there are those that have some exorbitant fee! I've come across a few that are in the hundreds of dollars. 🙃

[helvella in reply to Rexz]

And, these days, all too often the fee is for a 24-hour loan!

The pricing is at a level that actually would make it worth paying out for "spy" technology to use within an academic library - if you can gain access to one. OK - for most of us, surreptitious use of a mobile phone camera is secretive enough. But camera-in-spectacles might be less obvious.

[Rexz in reply to helvella]

True, I've actually had some success gaining access to academia by adding my business name and email in the box titled organization and email. Then what is my interest I add "Researcher". Both are true. So for some that works.Rexz

[jade_s in reply to Rexz]

Many researchers will be happy to provide their papers to individuals. So keep doing that!

People here may also send me requests, I tend to have access to many (but not all) through my university.

[WIZARD6787]

I have an assistant that reviews all of the applicable papers so I don't have to read all of them. Oh wait that's you!

[Technoid in reply to WIZARD6787]

😆

[Orchard33]

Thanks for that, Technoid. You're a mine of information.

[Rexz]

There's another I find useful, where I get email alerts that also tracks which papers you download and then starts sending other "like" papers to your inbox.

academia.edu

[Technoid in reply to Rexz]

good tip, thanks!

[helvella]

Rexz

Internet Archive Scholar

Search Millions of Research Papers

This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.

scholar.archive.org/

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[Rexz in reply to helvella]

Thank you helvella! I'll check this out.Rexz