{"id":130138,"date":"2021-11-06T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-general-index-new-tool-allows-you-to-search-107-million-research-papers-for-free"},"modified":"2021-11-06T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T01:23:33","slug":"the-general-index-new-tool-allows-you-to-search-107-million-research-papers-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-general-index-new-tool-allows-you-to-search-107-million-research-papers-for-free","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe General Index\u201d: New tool allows you to search 107 million research papers for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-general-index-new-tool-allows-you-to-search-107-million-research-papers-for-free.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new database aims to make it easier than ever to access and search through the world\u2019s massive trove of research papers.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, millions of scientific and academic papers get published across thousands of journals. The majority of those papers lie behind paywalls, costing $9 to $30 (or more) to read. Finding them can be difficult: Tools like Google Scholar allow you to search for paper titles and keywords, but more specialized queries are difficult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/GeneralIndex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The General Index<\/a> was designed to reduce those obstacles without breaking the law. Developed by the technologist Carl Malamud and his nonprofit foundation Public Resource, the free-to-use index contains words and phrases from more than 107 million research papers, comprising 8.5 terabytes when compressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new database aims to make it easier than ever to access and search through the world\u2019s massive trove of research papers. Each year, millions of scientific and academic papers get published across thousands of journals. The majority of those papers lie behind paywalls, costing $9 to $30 (or more) to read. Finding them can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1496,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-law","category-open-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}