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   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 01:43:53 JST Nathan Schneider

   What is your search engine for scholarly publications?

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     Kenneth Been (kbbeen@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 05:08:21 JST Kenneth Been

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     @ntnsndr My school’s library website. What’s yours?

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 05:20:25 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Kenneth Been

     @kbbeen Mostly Google Scholar, integrated with my school's library. But I want to try something new.

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     nilesh (nilesh@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 20:33:45 JST nilesh

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     • Kenneth Been

     @ntnsndr @kbbeen Have you tried elicit.com?

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 20:33:45 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Kenneth Been

     @nilesh @kbbeen nope!

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 20:34:57 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Robin Berjon

     @robin that's what I'm hoping for. And preferably one provided by an organization that is not actively exploiting scholars for free labor and libraries for exorbitant subscription fees.

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     Robin Berjon (robin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 20:34:58 JST Robin Berjon

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     @ntnsndr Is there one that's not terrible?

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     Zicklag (zicklag@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 05:47:14 JST Zicklag

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     @ntnsndr I use SemanticScholar. I haven't used much else, so I don't know how it compares, but it's been nice so far:

     https://semanticscholar.org

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 05:47:14 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Zicklag

     @zicklag ooh, darn, the groundbreaking AI can't distinguish me from a scholar with the same name in a different field.

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     Zicklag (zicklag@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 00:54:22 JST Zicklag

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     @ntnsndr Yeah, I'm still waiting for a humble AI that knows when it doesn't know stuff. :D

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 00:54:22 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Zicklag

     @zicklag that's hard enough to find among humans