I've always used CiteSeer for my computer vision research:
I don't know how it rates for other fields though.
Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
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Re: Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
#12Two alternatives you could check out:
http://www.scitopia.org/scitopia/
http://scirus.com/srsapp/
Re: Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
#13To be honest, part of it is the knack of finding the right keywords. Some ideas I use:
- Hit up Google Books / Amazon for SIP (Statistically improbable phrases) related to your topic. These are useful.
- Add a bunch of +[Author name] keywords into scholar in order to get papers that cite certain people. Eventually you build up a standard list of authors that you want to find papers citing (yes, I know, this can be overly narrow, but it's effective).
- As mentioned elsewhere, use Citeseer.
- Its much easier to navigate a reference graph than to search cold. So find papers you think are excellent, and then serach everyone who cites them, all other work by referenced and citing authors, and so on.
- Use arXiv. You can set up RSS feeds for certain keywords, and search them. This is low-SNR but yields some gems.
- Most importantly: Don't search! Ask other people what's worth reading and what's good, in your group/lab/friends.
Re: Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
#14For medicine/biology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.
During studies I used EBSCO www.search.ebscohost.com , there is almost every field, from Astronautics to Zoology :-), but access to some resources is limited.
Re: Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
#15What's your field? Google scholar works great for me. (Mostly genetics and bioinformatics.)
Re: Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
#16Papers is a great application for searching multiple article repositories and organizing your collection of journal papers. http://mekentosj.com/papers/
"Papers" definitely looks worth a test drive (Free for 30 days; then $42/é29), though I'd love to see something web-based, not requiring download to your PC, particularly if you have to do some of your research from within institutions on their PCs/Macs. [ BTW: "papers" won an Apple award, so probably works on Macs as well as PCs. ]
It's Mac-only.
Re: Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
#17www.citeulike.org - one more alternative
Re: Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
#18I find it impossible to search by keyword. The trick I use is to find one relevant article via miracle, then do a reverse lookup on authors that were referenced by that paper. Once you know some names, everything becomes much more readily searchable.
Re: Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
#19I depends on your field to some degree. For life sciences, Pubmed works pretty good. You can also find some articles you didn't know you were looking for via shared bookmarks on Citeulike or recommendations via Mendeley. http://mendeley.com
Re: Ask HN:What do you use for searching for scientific articles
#20What's your field? Google scholar works great for me. (Mostly genetics and bioinformatics.)
Even for CS topics I find it great as it gives me direct pdf access (I dont have ACM/IEEE account)