How to Access Exclusive Research Archives Online
In the digital age, exclusive research archives have become invaluable resources for academics, professionals, and curious minds alike.
In the digital age, exclusive research archives have become invaluable resources for academics, professionals, and curious minds alike. These archives house a wealth of information, often containing rare and comprehensive collections that are not readily available to the general public. Accessing these archives can seem daunting, but with the right approach, it is entirely feasible. Here’s a…
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getting around academic paywalls for papers, and sometimes books
if you have already found a paper or book you want to read, here's some ways to get behind the paywall. researchers do not get any money from publishers of academic papers so many of them will be very happy to give you a copy of their work if you email the academic in question.
the first method maybe blocked in some countries so you may need a vpn. i rec protonvpn, which has a free plan that does not keep any logs.
1. Using SciHub (reliable, but hasn't got many new papers)
a. On a desktop/laptop device
Install the SciHub X Now extension. Clicking the icon of the extension on most academic paper pages leads to it automatically reloading that page with a pdf version of the paper if it is available.
On Firefox:
On Chrome (please switch to firefox if you can! Chrome is set to block adblockers and extensions like this soon.)
b. If you're on a mobile device
Find the DOI or digital object identifier (a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the ISO.) It looks like a bunch of numbers with dots and slashes separating them a bit like this: 10.1109/5.771073.
Go to https://sci-hub.se/ and paste the DOI in its search bar.
2. Using Nexus (new papers and books! better search but is a little slow and buggy)
Nexus is a newer project that borrows logins from users with institutional access, it also aggregates other shadow libraries like libgen so you can find books as well.
a. Telegram Bot: If you already use telegram, the nexus search bot is very intuitive. Copying the name of the paper will do a decent search.
https://t.me/science_nexus_bot
b. Using the website: Has pretty good search, paste the name, authors, DOI whatever you want.
there are extensions that work similarly to schihub-x-now but they don't have a lot of users and are a bit experimental so I will not be recommending them here.
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"Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
What will you create?"
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Coding Study Plan!
I've enjoyed learning coding at a casual pace, but I'm ready to really buckle in and focus on moving forward to build my skills. SO, here is my plan:
Routine
Learn/practice coding at least 45 minutes per week day, alternating between FreeCodeCamp, web accessibility lessons, and personal projects. I aim to post about my progress at least once per week.
I plan to solidify my HTML/CSS, move onto JavaScript soon, and then decide where to go after that :)
Details and resources under the jump!
Coding Lessons
FreeCodeCamp: Great, project-based way to learn coding!
I'm almost done with the Responsive Web Design course, which covers HTML/CSS. I have enjoyed this way more than other tutorial methods I have tried before. Instead of providing a lesson with a separate activity afterwards, the project is the lesson, and you immediately use the coding and see the direct results. Learning by doing!
I'm excited to start on the JavaScript course soon!
Web Accessibility
Here are some free resources I'll use to study web accessibility:
Wix's Web Accessibility Course (thanks to @xiacodes for posting about this!)
Altogether, the videos for the lesson total about 1hr 15 mins.
This will prepare me to take the Accessibility Specialist Certification Exam which provides a fun certificate for passing~
Accessibility Resource List from @accessibleaesthetics
Includes accessibility info that is relevant for everyone, as well as more specific knowledge for programmers, bloggers, writers, artists, and roleplayers.
I'm always learning from @accessibleaesthetics's posts! please give them a follow to learn accessibility during your casual Tumblring :)
Web Accessibility Twitch Stream with Africa Kenyah, hosted by @kitkatcodes
1hr 30 mins, can't wait to watch!
Africa Kenyah is a software engineer, accessibility specialist, and yoga teacher. Visit her website here!
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Do you know of any resources or posts specifically about captioning comics? I am very new to this, but I love comics and I make comics so I want to learn how to caption them properly. Thank you for your blog and all you do!
Delighted you asked this, since it gives me the excuse to share one of my top favorite posts about exactly that!!! I used @/TheQueerWithoutFear's addition in this post as a personal bible when starting out with art IDs! I think this post also has advice which is generally applicable to lots of comic IDs, since people can get bogged down writing every single detail of a piece when the broad strokes would do and thus detract from the overall comprehensibility of an ID. I also really appreciate this site as a great resource for examples on how to write concisely and with an audience in mind, and this post also lays out a lot of good tips! I'll round out this post with some general advice/guidelines:
Neither alt text nor caption IDs are better or even necessarily more accessible than the other; what matters is good formatting (so please don't put IDs below a readmore or use anything but plain text, use sentence case and primarily formal language, use brackets and "ID/End ID" formatting for caption IDs but omit them from alt, etc!)
For comics, especially long ones, I personally favor conciseness over strict fidelity to art, though this is highly subjective and depends on the piece and sometimes my mood. What I would boil this down to is that you don't need to include every detail in a piece to write a good ID, and using narration/prose is often more understandable than transcribing visual techniques (Ex: "She notices something to the side" is clearer and more succinct than "Action lines next to her face indicate she saw something to the side")
Organizing an ID's information in a top-down format is best for comprehensibility: start with who/what is featured (and where they're from, if applicable) and what they're doing, and then move on to background, style, and details
Last, you're welcome, and thank YOU so much for reaching out!! Artists like you make the world go round!! Please feel free to reach out if you ever have more questions, and have a wonderful day!!!
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Using Internet Archive & OpenLibrary
🔹The Internet Archive & OpenLibrary are completely free
🔹You don't need any card details to sign up
🔹You can log in via google or sign up with email
🔹Once you've done this you can borrow books for "1 hour", but you can just keep borrowing if the time is used up (unless its a very popular book, I wouldn't know how that works)
🔹You Internet Archive account will also be used for OpenLibrary
🔹FAQ for borrowing:
🔹FAQ for searching:
🔹Though usually I type: [book name] internet archive , into a search engine and often it comes up, either as the the reader or sometimes the PDF
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If you have posts you think should be added here, feel free to tag me!
Remember- you are just one person.
It’s not your responsibility to single-handedly fix everything. Do your best, but don’t push yourself too hard. The average person is not at fault, but we can work to undo some of the damage that has been done by the dragons and giants, and prevent further harm.
Maybe when we’re older, little kids will know how to take care of each other and their spaces, and won’t have to learn it from the internet, but from looking around and being in their communities. Maybe the farmers market will be swarming with people, and buying local will be expected rather than an exception. Maybe the temperatures will stop rising every summer, and seeing the stars won’t be so rare. That’s the goal for this blog. For us to make that happen, a little bit at a time.
Tags below the cut!
Open discussion - stuff to talk about
Hope - general goals, things that make me, well, hopeful! Some are more joke-y than others, but I think it’s still worthwhile. Avoiding anything too dour. (Sub-tags: hope/jk, hope/community)
Signs of life - think the hope tag, but for things that are actually happening. It’s important to stop, and acknowledge that yes, progress is being made. This is all progress, but the tag name is partially because the first post for it was around nature rehabilitation
Resources - resources to help you be as sustainable as you can be and to build community (and maybe be a little anarchistic while you’re at it). This includes tips on making clothes last longer and getting stuff cheap/free/secondhand, as well as how to improve community spaces! There may also be general safety and wellness resources added to this tag (sub-tags: resources/sustainability, resources/community, resources/health)
Public resources - things and places that should be commonly available to the public, including transportation and information
The commons - in the same vein as public resources, but specifically around necessary physical resources, such as food or sanitary products.
Let it last - posts about making things or repairing them to get them to last, and to last for a long time, and things that should stick around
in with the old and out with the new - typically about something that is older being brought back into common use
Transport - involving how we get around in our day to day. Often anti-car, pro-public transport, and pro-walkable communities posts
To apply - things that would be good for businesses and people to start using when possible
things to kill - stuff that, overall, is worse than it should be. The system itself is worse, the way it affects people is worse, ect. Some of these do include action plans/steps to take!
Take their rope away - a reference to this comic about the trolley problem, basically saying to hold the decision makers responsible for the things they do, and asking the question of who is tying people to the tracks in the first place.
R3x - examples of how people have/ways to reuse, reduce and recycle!! (Yes it’s Rex.)
Right to repair - focusing on how people should be able to access and fix their own stuff, and not rely on price-gouging corporations to fix it for them.
Donation ask - a compilation of asks for donations, verified/trusted. I’ll try to keep them up to date.
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