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As valued as SciHub and LibGen may be, they are repositories of mostly disjoint materials. They are not seamlessly interconnected. As a very basic bar to striv

As valued as SciHub and LibGen may be, they are repositories of mostly disjoint materials. They are not seamlessly interconnected. As a very basic bar to strive for, I don't think either offer full text search over their contents. Any recommendedation for third party tools that might help?

Avicebron 4y ago
What do you mean by full text search over their contents? I just found a full published article? Do you mean that there's a competing article on libgen? If so, that's fairly normal with science, it changes year to year or month to month, those articles can both be valid in some sense because they are time dependent.
Kim_Bruning 4y ago
Many! In biology and medicine, pubmed is the most common ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ) . For general purpose you can use google scholar ( https://scholar.google.com/ https://scholar.google.com/ ). When you find an interesting article, both these tools will allow you to both seach backwards for articles that it cites, and search forwards for articles that cite it in turn. Repeated application can quickly help you expand the pool of potentially relevant articles (especially once you surface review articles in the citation chain, which can help tie things together and/or let you jump across to associated topics) . Finally, both of these tools yield you a DOI which you can plug into scihub. You can also install the extension "Sci-Hub X Now!" to do this last bit for you. ( https://github.com/gchenfc/sci-hub-now https://github.com/gchenfc/sci-hub-now )
- anon400232 4y ago
  Thanks for elaborating in case others don't know... but yes, I know of those :) I'm talking about a seamless tool that connects with SciHub and/or LibGen and provides full text search and so on.
jacobolus 4y ago
Start with https://scholar.google.com https://scholar.google.com or similar citation indices. When the full paper is not freely available, you can often paste a DOI into sci-hub.

Avicebron 4y ago

What do you mean by full text search over their contents? I just found a full published article? Do you mean that there's a competing article on libgen? If so, that's fairly normal with science, it changes year to year or month to month, those articles can both be valid in some sense because they are time dependent.

Kim_Bruning 4y ago

Many! In biology and medicine, pubmed is the most common ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ) . For general purpose you can use google scholar ( https://scholar.google.com/ https://scholar.google.com/ ). When you find an interesting article, both these tools will allow you to both seach backwards for articles that it cites, and search forwards for articles that cite it in turn. Repeated application can quickly help you expand the pool of potentially relevant articles (especially once you surface review articles in the citation chain, which can help tie things together and/or let you jump across to associated topics) . Finally, both of these tools yield you a DOI which you can plug into scihub. You can also install the extension "Sci-Hub X Now!" to do this last bit for you. ( https://github.com/gchenfc/sci-hub-now https://github.com/gchenfc/sci-hub-now )

anon400232 4y ago
Thanks for elaborating in case others don't know... but yes, I know of those :) I'm talking about a seamless tool that connects with SciHub and/or LibGen and provides full text search and so on.

jacobolus 4y ago

Start with https://scholar.google.com https://scholar.google.com or similar citation indices. When the full paper is not freely available, you can often paste a DOI into sci-hub.