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A New Search Engine for Scholarly Works

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK
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Just a quick post to point out a new search facility - which might be very useful.

Browsing the Archive

A New Search Engine for Scholarly Works

Did you know you can now search for scholarly materials that are preserved in the Internet Archive? Introducing the Internet Archive Scholar, a search engine of 250 million research articles, from rare 18th-century field notes to conference presentations, or the latest preprint publication. Research shows that too often Open Access publishers just disappear, and with them go the links to troves of important scholarship. The Internet Archive Scholar seeks to preserve Open Access works and make it easier to discover them through full-text-search.

scholar.archive.org/

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Triciatextiles profile image
Triciatextiles

Thanks for posting this link, very useful for my daughter who is studying at uni. Is this different to google scholar?

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to Triciatextiles

Yes - completely different. Though I do not know if Google do, or will, have access to use in their search results.

Also, typically, the Internet Archive consists of older material, often out of copyright. And, at times, going back centuries.

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RABIDFOX in reply to Triciatextiles

i recommend using core.ac.uk as well its another good one

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to RABIDFOX

Very helpful, thank you.

Pity you chose a name based on a wild animal rather than a bird. Otherwise I could have responded with "'Core' said the crow." :-)

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Nannyhoon in reply to Triciatextiles

The Wayback Machine was fantastic while I was studying online when links to important pages were broken. The ability to browse older material - especially academic material - is invaluable, as helvella hints in her reply.

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to Nannyhoon

Are you sure it is "her" reply? :-)

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Nannyhoon in reply to helvella

I'm not at all sure, helvella! I went on probabilities since more females than males suffer from thyroid problems and I apologise if I got it wrong.

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to Nannyhoon

Statistics can mislead us all! :-)

Happens all the time - don't worry at all.

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Serendipitious

Thank you helvella, looks really interesting

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vocalEK

Wow! I was curious, so I looked myself up. My one and only published work (in partnership with a group of Italian researchers) showed up on top of the list: web.archive.org/web/2018072...

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to vocalEK

Amazing!

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vocalEK in reply to helvella

Thank you.

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tattybogle in reply to vocalEK

I've looked you up too :)

as a relapsed ex smoker who's happily settled on the very abstemious "1 a day after dinner" i think the points/observations/suggestions made in the paper were very good ones :)

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vocalEK in reply to tattybogle

Thank you.

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