[Blink]

Sites

Free access to paywalled papers: https://sci-hub.tw/ contains 85.2% of paywalled papers - if that link goes down then you can find a new one from https://whereisscihub.now.sh/, r/scholar, http://gen.lib.rus.ec/, https://booksc.xyz/

If none of those have it, then you can always just ask the author.
There are also browser extensions and bookmarklets to help with that: https://unpaywall.org/, https://openaccessbutton.org, https://github.com/nfahlgren/scihub_bookmark, https://github.com/allanino/sci-hub-fy

You can also tweet with the tag of #icanhazpdf.

For searching in the first place, of course, there's Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com), PubMed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed), BASE (https://base-search.net), and similar sites. Other neat sites that are vaguely relevant are PubPeer - a post-publication public peer-review site where you can pretty much comment on papers anonymously, and RetractionWatch - a site that monitors retractions of papers.

Here's an overview of sci-hub's journal coverage: https://greenelab.github.io/scihub/#/journals


Textbooks: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/, http://en.bookfi.net/

Datasets: http://academictorrents.com/, r/datasets, https://www.data.gov/


Software

Document editing: LaTeX, if you like Google Docs style stuff then you can use Overleaf.  For simpler documents, markdown might be a better idea - a Google Docs style editor is HackMD.  Papeeria supports both LaTeX and markdown.  For offline editors, there are tons of options including vim/emacs/sublime/atom/whatever addons, TeXStudio and TeXMaker, TeXWorks.  For markdown, aside from stuff like vim/emacs/whatever general editor, you have tons of editors.

Reference managers: Zotero, Mendeley, and JabRef (which lacks a Chromium extension https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/1284) are global options.  For editing specific bibliographies, there's BibDesk.

I use TextMate with Zotero and BibDesk.


Statistics stuff: R (with R Studio) is useful for statistics, and if you don't want to learn it then there's still Jamovi, JASP, and PAST.  If you want something similar to SPSS then there's PSPP. There's actually a Wikipedia page for free statistical software.

Matlab-like stuff: GNU Octave, Scilab, and Sage

[zorrophreak]

Thanks for the share Ender. I'll be starting Uni soon so this will undoubtedly come in handy for me. I'll probably use this for a few personal projects as well.

A great share and a great resource as always, thanks!

[Request]

I love this, thank you for this post. Upvoted

[Kludge]

One thing I'll nitpick: Don't use chrome. Period.

[Blink]

One thing I'll nitpick: Don't use chrome. Period.

Chrome I wouldn't use, but Chromium-based browsers are a bit of a different question. I use Brave Browser, (as qutebrowser's adblock system is inadequate and Mozilla has been doing stuff that I don't like).

[Blink]

I love this, thank you for this post. Upvoted

I thought I had escaped Reddit, but nope.

[mothered]

I've completely overlooked this.

There's some excellent resources.
Appreciated.

[Request]

I thought I had escaped Reddit, but nope.

Never!
[img width="100" height="100"]http://i.imgur.com/kOge0.png[/img] im done with this image im sorry just keeping it like this

[darkninja1980]

Sites

Free access to paywalled papers: https://sci-hub.tw/ contains 85.2% of paywalled papers - if that link goes down then you can find a new one from https://whereisscihub.now.sh/, r/scholar, http://gen.lib.rus.ec/, https://booksc.xyz/

If none of those have it, then you can always just ask the author.
There are also browser extensions and bookmarklets to help with that: https://unpaywall.org/, https://openaccessbutton.org, https://github.com/nfahlgren/scihub_bookmark, https://github.com/allanino/sci-hub-fy

You can also tweet with the tag of #icanhazpdf.

For searching in the first place, of course, there's Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com), PubMed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed), BASE (https://base-search.net), and similar sites.  Other neat sites that are vaguely relevant are PubPeer - a post-publication public peer-review site where you can pretty much comment on papers anonymously, and RetractionWatch - a site that monitors retractions of papers.

Here's an overview of sci-hub's journal coverage: https://greenelab.github.io/scihub/#/journals


Textbooks: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/, http://en.bookfi.net/

Datasets: http://academictorrents.com/, r/datasets, https://www.data.gov/


Software

Document editing: LaTeX, if you like Google Docs style stuff then you can use Overleaf.  For simpler documents, markdown might be a better idea - a Google Docs style editor is HackMD.  Papeeria supports both LaTeX and markdown.  For offline editors, there are tons of options including vim/emacs/sublime/atom/whatever addons, TeXStudio and TeXMaker, TeXWorks.  For markdown, aside from stuff like vim/emacs/whatever general editor, you have tons of editors.

Reference managers: Zotero, Mendeley, and JabRef (which lacks a Chromium extension https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/1284) are global options.  For editing specific bibliographies, there's BibDesk.

I use TextMate with Zotero and BibDesk.


Statistics stuff: R (with R Studio) is useful for statistics, and if you don't want to learn it then there's still Jamovi, JASP, and PAST.  If you want something similar to SPSS then there's PSPP.  There's actually a Wikipedia page for free statistical software.

Matlab-like stuff: GNU Octave, Scilab, and Sage

great looking sites.

[green314]

Interesting thread. Thank you for the websites.