I thought I would try a couple of the suggestions here. What I was looking for was criticisms or alternatives to (Java) exception handling, an interest of mine. ArXiv may have the the paper but their search interface is pretty primitive. Google Scholar gave much more useful results after tinkering with search terms. My usual approach to finding papers in a new area of interest is to google around until I find a Wikip…
In my (admittingly limited) experience with ArXiv, CS is not well represented. Most CS researchers just don't put their papers up on it.
Try searching on the ACM Digital Library. When you find a title, Google for it (doesn't even need to be Scholar), and you'll often find the author's copy on their webpage.