Study sites

Updated 2026.09.05.a

1 Study sites

  1. Arxiv.org. A site for preprints. https://arxive.org
  2. BioMedCentral. https://www.biomedcentral.com/ A pioneer in open publishing.
  3. CDC YBRSS, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). This is raw data for the current survey released in 2018. There is no comparative data with past surveys. They look at risky behavior of youth, if they feel safe at school, if they've been bullied or been in fights, suicide thoughts, suicide attempts, and similar things. https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.htm
  4. Crossref. https://search.crossref.org/. I guess this searches bibliographies or something like it.
  5. Elsevier Open Science. From the people who normally charge you an arm and a leg for science. https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science. The fees are paid for by the research author or their sponsoring body.
  6. Environmental Science. https://www.intechopen.com/books/subject/environmental-sciences. 206 Open Access books and papers about environmental science.
  7. European Commission Open Science. http://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm.
  8. Figshare. https://figshare.com/ "Figshare wants to open scientific data to the world."
  9. Free library. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/ Focus on studies and scientific articles.
  10. Gallup polls. http://gallup.com
  11. Google Scholar. You can't copy text from all sources though, but you can view PDFs of the books or some studies. https://scholar.google.com/
  12. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
  13. ISSUU. Some docs cannot be downloaded from here unless you use a special downloader site. https://issuu.com/
    1. I like this one: https://issuudownload.net
    2. https://www.qwant.com/?q=issuu%20downloader&t=web
  14. +++Library Genesis Project (Libgen). July 20, 2019 they had a server crash so many things cannot be downloaded, though the index search seems to work. http://gen.lib.rus.ec/, https://libgen.is/, https://libgen.rs. Forum at: https://forum.mhut.org/.
    1. Also at https://booksc.xyz/
  15. Medrxiv. https://www.medrxiv.org/. May contain preprints which are not peer-reviewed.
  16. MISES. Mainly books on economics, and money, from Austria. https://mises.org/
  17. New England Journal of Medicine. Medical topics. https://www.nejm.org/medical-articles/research
  18. Open Access Gov't. Probably a UK site. https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/
  19. Open Access Journal. https://www.scirp.org/journal/OpenAccess.aspx
  20. Open Access Journals from OMICS. https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php
  21. Open Science Journals. https://www.osjournal.org/about.html "Open access publishing allows an immediate, worldwide, barrier-free, open access to the full text of research papers, which is in the best interests of the scientific community."
  22. Pew Research. These are generally results of surveys about views of Americans mostly. Supposed to be non-partisan. https://www.pewresearch.org/
  23. PNAS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://www.pnas.org/
  24. Public Library of Science (PLOS). https://www.plos.org/ 215,000 peer-reviewed journals.
  25. Pubmed. Run by the NIH in the US. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/. Pubmed Central (no idea what the difference is): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/.
  26. Researchgate. https://www.researchgate.net/
  27. Researchomatic. 1000 subject areas. http://www.researchomatic.com/
  28. Sci-Hub.
    1. On Reddit.
    2. Working sci-hub links.
    3. https://sci-hub.se/, https://sci-hub.tw.
    4. Where is sci-hub now? https://whereisscihub.now.sh/. Millions of free papers.
  29. Science Direct open access journals. https://www.sciencedirect.com/
  30. Scientific Research. https://www.scirp.org/
  31. Scribd. You can read papers here for free but downloading a PDF requires a paid account. http://scribd.com.
  32. Social Psychology Network. https://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm

1.1 Other possible sources for papers

Especially gov't papers that have moved.

  1. Archive-it. Seems different than archive.org. It has some older FDA papers from fda.gov. https://www.archive-it.org/
  2. FDA pesticide residue report search. https://www.archive-it.org/collections/7993?q=pesticide+in+food+baby&show=ArchivedPages&hitsPerDupe=0&go=Search+the+Archive

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