A lot research is hard to find, sits behind paywalls and can be expensive to access. There are, however, a number of cheap and easy ways to access research evidence.
What does it mean?
Useful sources are listed below: Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for articles and often provides links to free versions
Google Books is handy to preview the content of research books. Quite a lot of the book is often also digitally available
Academia.edu and ResearchGate.net are both social sites for academics, but they often upload versions of their papers and chapters. Even if they have not uploaded their paper yet, you can contact them through these sites to ask for a copy
Check journals for open access papers and look for offers, such as ‘50 free copies’ when papers are released
Email the author who may send you a version of their paper or chapter
Subscribe to RSS feeds or email alerts from particular academic journals. You will get an alert when these journal
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