Finding the truth is a lot of work.

Apr 25, 2010 19:36

Doing research from home in a boony town without access to academic journals  is hard ( Read more... )

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winterlion April 26 2010, 03:19:50 UTC
I don't remember the name of the sites - but there's professional academic online journal archives of publications of all kinds. It's paid access though - so I haven't looked beyond that.
The college library may be able to help too.

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lethsuanach April 26 2010, 03:23:09 UTC
I have JSTOR access through the middle of next month if you have article names or authors you're looking for.

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geek_dragon April 27 2010, 20:51:45 UTC
sweet! I might take you up on it.
I'm getting sick of researching rape though... it's not fun.

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crisantemo April 26 2010, 06:18:41 UTC
Google Scholar is an excellent way of finding free articles. I was able to build an entire course on health economics using this for about 80% of the copious articles I assigned.

Most medical journals give away their articles (except perhaps the most recent). I'm particularly fond of the British Medical Journal. They should have lots of information related to your topic.

Google Scholar also picks up journal articles hosted quasi-legally on the article author's own web site. (Whether it's legal is disputable, but it IS ethical, which is why everyone turns a blind eye to this common practice.)

If you add 'working paper' to the search for your topic, you'll also get papers-in-progress.

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geek_dragon April 27 2010, 20:51:59 UTC
Good tips! Thanks!

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geek_dragon April 27 2010, 03:43:56 UTC
You are so funny. Your idea of evidence for your opnions are slice and TresSugar, and other shallow fluff websites. But for evidence that you will consider from people with opinions other than your own, you demand court documents, and police files, and scientific studies, then you come up with the lamest reasons for dismissing the evidence.

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anonymous April 27 2010, 06:33:08 UTC
Not all claims demand equal evidence; the more specific or serious the claim, the more specific or serious the evidence needs to be. "Men are generally expected to pay for dates" is both very general and very mundane, in fact it's basically common knowledge, so it would be very strange to see a scientific study on the phenomenon. If you seriously dispute the idea that men are generally expected to pay for dates, then why don't you just state the type and quantity of evidence that would be needed to convince you ( ... )

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