Okay.
Next, how do you get the research paper? And most importantly how do you get it for free?
And the first thing you can do is to use your university library. Your university will most likely have
an electronic library of research papers and most of the time you will find the research paper that
you are looking at in that library for free.
Another thing you can do is to google the paper or check out the website of the first author. And you
might be surprised.
This very often works because very often the first author gives away the paper for free on his Web site.
Another thing you can do is to email the first author and ask for the paper.
And this may sound a little bit weird. To ask for a paper that you normally need to pay for to get it
for free.
But with a 95 percent chance the author will be happy to give you the paper.
And the reason is that the people who actually want you to pay for the paper are not the authors but
the Journal.
Most of the time the author will be happy if as many people as possibly actually read his or her paper.
So very likely the author is just going to give you that paper.
So that's how you can get pretty much every research paper for free.
Okay next let's talk about how you scan a research paper.