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I wish sites had a browse feature, like “here’s a sample of what you’ll find, here are the keywords that would reveal this same entry” This and Sci-hub are two
by vmception 6y ago
I wish sites had a browse feature, like “here’s a sample of what you’ll find, here are the keywords that would reveal this same entry”
This and Sci-hub are two of many examples that bounce me over and over again because I have no inspiration on what to search or how
This site even has an entire primer on how to make a useful search query, because apparently its not even a familiar search bar?
And all the users are like “ah thats not a problem, just be so into this field like me that you already know all the papers you want to read!”
- misterkrabs 6y agoI think sci-hub is useful when you want to see the full paper a news article is citing - not so much for searching/browsing. I Google for the paper's abstract then copy its DOI into the sci-hub search.
- codazoda 6y agoYeah, I almost bounced too. But, I decided to try a few random words I imagined might exist in the dreams they talked about on the home page. For example, I searched for "boot" in the series of dreams from the Vietnam Vet. At first, I thought I would have liked to see the entire list. But, after reading a few of those war dreams, I didn't really want to read anymore (and I can't really articulate why).
- clarle 6y agoI just ended up searching "I" in the search bar to read all of the dreams as all of the dream diaries are written in the first person.