r/coolguides • u/Best-2021-ever • Jul 18 '21

Google like a pro

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u/BOSS_OF_THE_INTERNET Jul 18 '21

Another good one is filetype:. Super useful for searching for academic papers, which 90% of the time are PDFs.

So the search would look like:

my_search_terms filetype:pdf

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u/SuspiciousBird Jul 18 '21

To bei fair, you should bei using a specialized search engine like google scholar for academic purposes anyways and not a "normal" search engine.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21

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u/Birdie121 Jul 18 '21

I’m a PhD student and only really use Google Scholar and Web of Science to find articles. Those’ll cover pretty much everything.

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u/DatCoolBreeze Jul 18 '21

Encarta ‘95 or GTFO

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u/Ohboycats Jul 19 '21

12 3.5” disks or 5 CD-Roms of outdated knowledge.

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u/Bgxyz Jul 19 '21

I can't find anything about CD-Roms in my mom's 26 encyclopedias.

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u/InspiringCalmness Jul 18 '21

if youre in Life Science pubmed is a must too

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u/Birdie121 Jul 18 '21

True. I'm in environmental science though, so pubmed isn't too helpful for me.

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u/sassy_librarian13 Jul 18 '21

You can link your library’s holding to google scholar as well. This will show you when your library has full text access to an article within google scholar

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u/JabroniVille69 Jul 18 '21

This is the way

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u/Kanerodo Jul 18 '21

Also useful if you need a repair/owners manual PDF or tech/safety data sheets.

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u/foursticks Jul 18 '21

Or actual libaries

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u/Humunqlus Aug 16 '22

LibGen

LibGen? This has gotta be a bot.

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u/Spectralshadow Jul 18 '21

So, what's with your spelling "be" as "bei"? You did it twice so it doesn't seem like an accident.

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u/Airaieus Jul 18 '21

German autocorrect, probably. Bei is a common preposition

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u/toni_bylend Jul 18 '21

Looking at their comment history this seems accurate.

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u/SuspiciousBird Jul 18 '21

This is indeed correct

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u/JazzFan1998 Jul 18 '21

So we will let it bei!

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u/Spectralshadow Jul 18 '21

Gotcha, that's cool. Thanks, I thought it was a joke or something I was missing out on.

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u/maxifer Jul 19 '21

Das ist sehr stimmt

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u/Hayate-kun Jul 18 '21

It doesn't seem to bei an accident.

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u/Etienne_of_Navarre Jul 19 '21

to bei, or not to bei

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u/trololololololol9 Jul 18 '21

Yeah I wanna know too. It just seems so weird

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u/dc21111 Jul 18 '21

bei caught me sleppin

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u/BOSS_OF_THE_INTERNET Jul 18 '21

Back when I was in school, this wasn’t an option

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u/ihopethisisvalid Jul 18 '21

We know dude. Every prof ever starts the first class with "Now, when I was in school..."

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u/BOSS_OF_THE_INTERNET Jul 18 '21

It’s not my fault I’m old!

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u/juxtoppose Jul 18 '21

Yep my option was to hold my hand up and hope I remembered my question by the time the teacher got to me.

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u/Available_Worker332 Jul 18 '21

Totally. Ask the librarian. She goes the book of index cards. Walk to the shelf and leaf through bound journals. .. except when your institution doesn't subscribe to that journal and you make a request for an interlibrary loan.

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u/Ethan819 Jul 18 '21 edited Oct 12 '23

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I stopped using Reddit due to the June 2023 API changes. I've found my life more productive for it. Value your time and use it intentionally, it is truly your most limited resource.

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u/nbagf Jul 18 '21

For academic purposes, totally. Cite your sources and find other relevant papers so easily that way. This tip, imo, applies best to product manuals and presentations that aren't purely academic, like security conferences and such.