What is your favorite source for academic articles? (Recommend me new ones)

[Mercator]

CiteSeer and Google (Scholar).

[Kuciwalker]

I have access to Proquest through my school, as well as a number of (less useful) other databases.

[Chemical Ollie]

I used to subscribe for Nature

But their articles are really deep. You need some heavy basics to understand them

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
I used to subscribe for Nature

But their articles are really deep. You need some heavy basics to understand them

[JohnT]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Stopped reading em. Too much bull****. Stopped going to meetings too. Now I'm a hermit when in my lab and I keep my findings to myself.

In the true scientific spirit of cooperation and open disclosure, I'm sure.

[Provost Harrison]

The problem I find is that people who write research papers are generally far from good writers. They are so dry and difficult that I found the contents of them impossible to stick to my mind...

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by JohnT


In the true scientific spirit of cooperation and open disclosure, I'm sure.

Dont want the bastards with deep pockets and myriads of panting post-docs to steal the ideas before they're totally ready for consumption. Science is a cut throat business.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
The problem I find is that people who write research papers are generally far from good writers. They are so dry and difficult that I found the contents of them impossible to stick to my mind...

That's because they are all writen to supply the bare bones information for specialists in the field. That's why there are scientists and writers who popularise science. Of course, the two groups can overlap

[Kuciwalker]

I haven't had too much difficulty, generally, in reading scientific papers. There was one where I simply had no ****ing clue what they were saying, but the rest are pretty easy to follow.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Pekka
"IEEE"

Yeah, got any passes for their archives?

Yeah, it's called becoming a member

The annual fee is reasonable, and there are all sorts of discuounts you can apply, e.g. economic hardship, student, etc.

[Ted Striker]

[axi]

I use sciencedirect, I have access through my uni

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science

and

http://www.scirus.com/

I sometimes have a look at Citeseer too, as well as http://www.mathtools.net/

[Zoid]

I occasionally use Nature, Science and The Lancet as sources. I don´t understand half of it, but enough to quote it in a proper context...

If it´s politics I use these links: http://www.internationalen.se/links.php?cat.14