Re: Where to find white papers?

[Dan Mead <d.w.mead@gmail.com>]

usually if you find a specific paper that isn't too old, that author
will have it on their own website for free.

so basically, what tom said..

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tom Panzarella <tpanzarella@gmail.com> wrote:
> If there are particular researchers who's work you are interested in, go to
> their personal websites. They typically provide links to their publications
> on their CV or research pages.
> If you are just googling to find topics of interest, back your way into the
> above approach. I.e.,
> 1. Google for topic
> 2. Read abstract
> 3. If you like the abstract, google for one of the authors
> 4. Find their personal page
> 5. Get PDF of full paper from their CV or research page
> If you (over) pay for ACM and/or IEEE membership, use the respective digital
> library search to get the paper.
> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Tom Panzarella
>
> On May 27, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Nicholas Canzoneri <ac3522@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> So, during the long weekend, I figured it would be a good time to read some
> papers. Only problem is that I'm having some problems finding papers that
> are available to the general public. A decent amount of the stuff I found
> through google scholar were all behind payrolls paywalls.
>
> So what are your go to places to find papers? General topics I'm interested
> in at this moment are GIS and type systems, but general topics are cool too.