Over the last year, VincentYu, gwern, myself and others have provided 132 academic papers for the LessWrong community (out of 152 requests, a 87% success rate) through the Free research, editing and articles thread. We originally intended to provide editing, research and general troubleshooting help, but article downloads are by far the most requested service.
If you're doing a LessWrong relevant project we want to help you. If you need help accessing a journal article or academic book chapter, we can get it for you. If you need some research or writing help, we can help there too.
Turnaround times for articles published in the last 20 years or so is usually less than a day. Older articles often take a couple days.
Please make new article requests in the comment section of this thread.
If you would like to help out with finding papers, please monitor this thread for requests. If you want to monitor via RSS like I do, Google Reader will give you the comment feed if you give it the URL for this thread (or use this link directly).
If you have some special skills you want to volunteer, mention them in the comment section.
I note, by the way, that /r/scholar is also an excellent place to ask for papers. I've seen (and had) requests I thought near-impossible answered within an hour.
Currently outstanding requests:
When the only constant is change.
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) and Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM)
The effect of iodine supplementation on cognition of mildly iodine deficient young New Zealand adults.
(Found) Ruddick, William. 1980. “Concluding note.” In Philosophers in Medical Centers, edited by William Ruddick, 81–2. New York: Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. OCLC:7424036
(Found) Hooper, Edward. 1999. “The quieting of Louis Pascal.” In The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS, 365–74. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co. OCLC:39905078
(Found) Pascal, Louis. 1986. “Judgement day.” In Applied Ethics, edited by Peter Singer, 105–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC:13820779
A number of old AI papers
Machine consciousness: plausible idea or semantic distortion?
(Found) Zadeh (1950), Thinking Machines, A New Field in Electrical Engineering.
Please respond to these under the original request (linked).
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I have a big library of about 5,000 pdf's, with books (including textbooks) and papers in philosophy, psychology, statistics, computer science and a few other areas. The library is about 18 GB in size. If folks here can think of an easy way of sharing this material, I'd be happy to make it publicly available.
trends and controversies
does game theory work
saletllite control using rational agent programming
trust in automation
computing and ai for a sustainable future
computation and the prisoner's dilemma
enabling autonomous exploration via the solar system internet
cooperative game theory: basic concepts and computational challenges
high frequency trading: the faster the better?
computational deception and noncooperation
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This site is the best for academic papers: http://libgen.org/scimag
Seriously. Look at their list of available journals. They claim to have access to 21M papers.
I've given up trying to predict people's reactions. Some researchers or post-grads, when I contact them, seem thrilled to answer any questions I have or provide unpublished data; other seem to completely ignore me and as far as I can tell, pretend the thesis never existed. I'll give a recent Evangelion example: http://eva.onegeek.org/pipermail/evangelion/2012-October/007214.html
I reviewed a like >200pg PhD thesis which as far as I can tell has been neither discussed nor cited anywhere online; I excerpt it, praise and criticize parts, point out several s... (read more)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/1985-meeden.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/1961-pratt.pdf
For google reader I just give it the thread url and it gave me the comment feed. http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/eto/lesswrong_help_desk_free_paper_downloads_and_more/.rss
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Good idea. I just created a torrent file. I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶u̶n̶c̶o̶m̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ ̶P̶D̶F̶'̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶l̶o̶a̶d̶,̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶c̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶l̶o̶a̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶l̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶b̶r̶a̶r̶y̶. (It's now a compressed zip file; see update below.) Here's the magnet URI:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1D845DB543FFF3DE83B66FAA595F1A3D9F42ED42&dn=Library.zip&tr=udp%3a//tracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80/announce
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Please always add a link because it makes the job of finding the paper much easier. A Google Scholar link works best for me personally.
EDIT: The book can be found here: http://libgen.info/view.php?id=621853
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Requested, though maybe gwern already has it.
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You make this so easy for us, luke. Explanation of 1/f noise
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The links help a bit.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2001-watson.pdf
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I have subscriptions to both ACM and IEEE. Just sayin'.
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May also be of interest.
This appears to be all that exists for 3 (page 2): http://jech.bmj.com/content/suppl/2003/09/23/57.9.DC1/Abstracts.pdf
It was so small that after finding it I kept looking for a good 15 minutes, but I'm pretty sure the abstract is all there is and the full article was never published (the first author doesn't list it on his personal page, and all the references seem to be to the abstract).
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2013-seligman.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/s/hlcx9p04vrdnr0z/74477090-120823160907-phpapp01.pdf (Incidentally, the full text was the first result on google search.)
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I have access to many databases(my school subscribes to them), and check this page pretty frequently. I can help on a semi-regular basis if you want.
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How about this: http://www.class.uh.edu/phil/garson/MindsBrainsandPrograms.pdf ?
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PDFs of the following books are available upon request (I will likely send you a link by next business day):
Kahnemann, Slovic, Tversky, eds. (1982) Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Howson & Urbach (2006) Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach 3rd ed.
Thaler & Sunstein (2008) Nudge
Elliott Sober (2008) Evidence and Evolution
Huw Price (1997) Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point
James Stewart (2011) Calculus: Early Transcendentals 7th ed.
Craig & Moreland, eds. (2009) The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
Jordan Howard So... (read more)
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/1992-jungas.pdf
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The following data are missing because I had no easy way to export them:
You will need the Beyond 20/20 Professional Browser.msi) to view the .ivt files.
ILL was rejected. I think I would try emailing the author. You can also buy it here: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/iad/docdeliv/formlib.html, but that doesn't seem worth it.
Goode, P. (2002). Connecting with the reservoir. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal, 42(2).
According to Welsh et al. (2002), this paper estimates that "biases such as anchoring and overconfidence contribute to a US$30 billion/year loss in the oil and gas industry."
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I've requested this through ILL, but I'm not sure if it will work.
In a weird format (printed to PDF)
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This thread is for papers, not movies.
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I've requested a scan from my library.
Report from the FDA's Sugards Task Force, 1986 (Link is to first four pages.)
EDIT: Resolved via /r/scholar/
"A Preliminary Report of Kayak-Angst Among the Eskimo of West Greenland: a Study in Sensory Deprivation" http://isp.sagepub.com/content/9/1/18.extract
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Fusion projections: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978trbc.book..577D or http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1021815909065 (following up on this graph from here)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joes.12032/abstract
What's wrong with this one? (second "external link" on the page you linked) It's on the author's site, along with many (all?) of his other papers.
If you want it in formatted PDF though, only Springer has it afaict, so someone else will have to help you there.
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I was halfway through writing a post asking for this paper, but remembered to Google first and it turns out gwern already has that covered. Thanks!
(The result of my research: creatine is probably a good nootropic only if you are a vegetarian. This is valuable information, since I am a vegetarian.)
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Looking into Hanson's proposal for fire-the-ceo markets: Entrenchment, governance, and the stock price reaction to sudden executive deaths, An analysis of the stock price reaction to sudden executive deaths: Implications for the managerial labor market, and The Importance of Board Quality in the Event of a CEO Death.
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Mission impossible: diffusion and drift in the microfinance industry (Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-013-0384-5
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-4878-4_6
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http://sss.sagepub.com/content/1/3-4/407.full.pdf+html
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Yes; no.
I have a proxy so I have access to anything for which IP-based authentication is sufficient, which is a lot of the regular academic journals - but to get ILL and a number of the more expensive databases like LexisNexis, I would need a valid UWash username/password (which I don't have).
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I can't find easy access to this, theses are hard. Neither the author or supervisor seem to have a website. And it's held at a non US institution, so I am reluctant to ILL it.
Edit: nevermind, found an email for Sarah Grant and messaged her.
I found this presentation by Norvig that has that name, but not a paper by that name, despite finding the "ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management". Is that what you meant? Couldn't find "ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge".
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5440129
http://da.journal.informs.org/content/2/3/144.abstract
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2012-colombo.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2012.00528.x/pdf
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2001-chenoweth.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/1998-law.pdf
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I generally have trouble getting access to books sorry :-/
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Guess I'll email her.
EDIT: worked.
Here. The image quality is rather poor and some of the figures are unreadable, but the figures are also available from this previous conference paper, which has almost identical content.
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No, she was doing it while working as an ESL teacher and still working, according to her tweets. Has had time to continue low-quality anime blogging too.
There is no proper answer to several of my criticisms: she is simply flat out wrong or sloppy. Evangelion is one of the few topics where I acknowledge few peers and fewer superiors, and she is neither.
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(If anyone knows a general way to get theses when the obvious download fails, I'd appreciate knowing. They seem pretty hard to get.)
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811911004964
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912000353
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/1975-black.pdf
Please update the magnet URI. Let me know if you are still encountering problems.
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I need some guidance with a problem in the calculus of variations. I want to use direct methods to prove the existence of a minimizer of a certain functional, but I don't really know what I'm doing. If anyone with expertise is reading, I've given a full description at MathOverflow.
Invite sent.
(I just noticed that Dropbox gives additional storage space to both the person sending and the person receiving the invite. So you'll get an extra .5GB.)
For the editing. How could I sign up to help? I don't have the skills in research yet, but I am decent at writing and could help.
http://logcom.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/173.short
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.1222/pdf
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=206689557&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine
http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=034548084727579;res=IELHSS
http://www.springerlink.com/content/tp6w73g03gp1x721/#section=1034705&page=1
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569775.2012.651273
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27646750?uid=3739560
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2012-00560-001/
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The Academia Stack Exchange might be a good place to ask this. They had a related question.
There are no seeds during the day (Australian time). And then I leave my computer on overnight and it only downloads an extra couple of percent. downloading at about 4kB/sec. Unlikely to be a problem on my end. Would be keen for increased seeding of this. And then I can split up the file, pick the good parts and then repackage it in a new LW/rationality torrent. :/ Just as soon as it gets seeded better.
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I'm looking for a thesis by Bullock 2007, "Experiments on partisanship and public opinion: Party cues, false beliefs, and Bayesian updating" (may be accessible via Proquest).
I'm interested in it because I've come up with a Bayesian justification of the backfire effect, but it seems like Bullock may have covered it already in the last section. ;_;
EDIT: He did some interesting stuff in "Part 3, Bayesian Updating of Political Beliefs: Normative and Descriptive Properties", but not exactly what I have in mind.
Churchland, Paul M., State-space Semantics and Meaning Holism in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research JStor Philosophy Documentation Center
Thanks. Unfortunately Google Drive offers 5 GB of space only. Yes, in principle I could create four different accounts, but in practice this would be a hassle, since ideally I would want to keep the library updated and this would require me to switch accounts frequently. It would also be harder for visitors to access the material, since I really lack the time to sort thousands of files into separate subjects. I might consider this approach if there are no other options, but I'd strongly prefer to upload all the files to a single account.
A possible alte... (read more)
Search engine for paywalled papers. Just for Chrome right now.
http://unpaywall.org/
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170319/02251236949/unpaywall-browser-add-on-that-finds-legal-free-copies-academic-papers-you-see-as-you-browse-web.shtml
Hi looking for: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00461520.1986.9653026
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Is this page still active? My institution doesn't have access to the journal Psychophysiology going back far enough... would anyone be able to find this:
Fischler, I. et al. "Brain potentials related to stages of sentence verification." Psychophysiology 20(4), 400--409.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1983.tb00920.x/pdf
Thanks very much!
Two requests:
Shelf life and safety concerns of bakery products--a review. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15077880
Predicting and preventing mold spoilage of food products. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23462093
Greene LS. "A retrospective view of iodine deficiency, brain development, and behavior from studies in Ecuador". In: Stanbury JB, ed. The Damaged Brain of Iodine Deficiency. New York, NY: Cognizant Communication; 2004:173-185.
National Health Spending In 2011: Overall Growth Remains Low, But Some Payers And Services Show Signs Of Acceleration
If Slow Rate Of Health Care Spending Growth Persists, Projections May Be Off By $770 Billion
Trends Underlying Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Growth For Americans Younger Than Age Sixty-Five
"Possible observation of tachyons associated with extensive air showers" RW Clay, PC Crouch - 1974 - nature.com
The difficulties of executing simple algorithms: Why brains make mistakes computersdon’t
RISI World Containerboard Production Capacity Report
Full text of this article: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2152422,00.html
Converting relative risks to absolute risks: A graphical approach http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.4780080603/abstract
Narratives and goals: Narrative structure increases goal priming. Laham, Simon M.; Kashima, Yoshihisa http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/zsp/44/5/303/
"Effects of LED-backlit computer screen and emotional selfregulation on human melatonin production", Sroykham & Wongsawa 2013.
Absorption of nicotine by the human stomach and its effect on gastric ion fluxes and potential difference
W. Krull 1930/1987 http://www.springerlink.com/content/3203036jq8v23484/ "The aesthetic viewpoint in mathematics"
"Effects of nicotine on perceptual speed"
Some iodine studies:
Would it be possible to get a pdf of the original (1934) version of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People? The one's I found are from the revised edition. I'm trying to put together links to all the books recommended by Satvik Beri in a recent exchange he had with Ben Kuhn, in the hope that this will help EAs interested in earning to give.
http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/1/277
"The healthy donor effect: a matter of selection bias and confounding."
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03270.x/abstract
"Sleep symptoms associated with intake of specific dietary nutrients", Grandner et al 2013 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsr.12084/abstract
Santos, Santos, and Shimony, "Implicitly preserving semantics during incremental knowledge base acquisition under uncertainty".
Santos, Wilkinson, and Santos, "Fusing multiple Bayesian knowledge sources".
The first describes a formalism called the Bayesian knowledge base that is more compact than the usual conditional probability table approach to a Bayesian network, along with other advantages; the second presents an algorithm for aggregating representations in this formalism.
I ran across this in a book on adversarial reasoning, and have... (read more)
Situated cognition and learning environments: Roles, structures, and implications for design
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02300472 / http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/30220993?uid=3737976&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102636605971
Gentzen’s Cut Elimination Theorem for Non-Logicians
Knowledge and Value, Tulane Studies in Philosophy Volume 21, 1972, pp 115-126
Some modafinil-related papers:
Spaced repetition:
Meta-science priors:
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column from Scientific American Volume 242, Number 6, June, 1980. Paywalled here:June:1980).
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"The Cognitive Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States"; I think this may be a republication of "The Economic Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States" (Feyrer et al 2008), but it's nice to be sure.
Ken Binmore & Hyun Song Shin. Algorithmic knowledge and game theory. (Chapter 9 of Knowledge, Belief, and Strategic Interaction by Cristina Bicchieri.)
EDIT: Actually, I'd be pretty happy to see any paper containing both the phrases "common knowledge" and "Löb's theorem". This particular paper is probably not the only one.
Jeffrey Smith, "America's arsenal of nuclear time bombs", Washington Post National Weekly Edition, May 28-June 3, 1990
Jeffrey Smith, "America's arsenal of nuclear time bombs", Washington Post National Weekly Edition, May 28-June 3, 1990
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15328031US0201_01 "Meta-Analysis and Power: Some Suggestions for the Use of Power in Research Synthesis"
"Annual injection of vitamin D and fractures of aged bones", 1992 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00298497
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17828627 / http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13825580600788100 McMorris, Terry (09/2007). "Creatine Supplementation and Cognitive Performance in Elderly Individuals". Aging, neuropsychology, and cognition (1382-5585), 14 (5), p. 517
Electronics (ISSN 0883-4989), volume 63 (1963), May 31 issue: "Chart Gives RLC Values for Critical Damping" by Arthur B. Moulton, pg6
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10442215 May be hard to get.
Osterweil (1992). "Cognitive function in non-demented older adults with hypothyroidism". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (0002-8614) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1556359
http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/6ed509641f7324e6,forthcoming,7629.html
http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2405 http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2402 http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2427
Goldin et al (2013). "Training Planning and Working Memory in Third Graders". Mind, brain and education