Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Quest for Free Full Text

“Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest” -- Helen Rowland (English-American writer, 1876-1950)

Most of the free stuff I find on the Web by pure chance.  But there is a way to increase the odds of finding free full text articles.

SEARCH TIP: In Google® Scholar, add the following to your search string:
AND filetype:pdf

For example, try this search …
Dibenzothiophene AND filetype:pdf

This is not foolproof.  Many of the items on the results list are not free.  But the strategy reduces the number of links you have to click to find free PDFs like the following:

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International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2012
Microbial Applications For Desulphurization Of Coal: A Review
Diptangshu Mukherjee (1), Ilyas Mohd (2), N.Rao Cheepurupalli (3), Altaf Shaik (4)
1, 2 Environmental Management Division, Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research, Dhanbad-828108, India
3 Department of Geology, Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh
4 Department of Biotechnology, Kakatiya University, Warangal-506003, India
Abstract
Air pollution is a major problem which effects the ecological environment and human health. Coal is widely used fossil fuel for steel, electricity generating plants and other small or large industries. When coal burns it releases sulphur di-oxide (SO2) and causes air pollution in the atmosphere. So, it is believed that sulphur should be removed from coal before burning. Biodesulphurization is an alternative technology to reduce sulphur content in coal and prevent sulphur di-oxide emission in the atmosphere. This technique includes physical, chemical and biological methods. This paper shows the applications and future aspects of microorganisms for removal of sulphur content from coal which is a cost effective, low energy consumption and ecofriendly process.
Free Full Text Source: http://www.ijsrp.org/research_paper_may2012/ijsrp-may-2012-62.pdf
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Curiously, the Advanced search form for Google® Scholar does not provide an option to filter by file type.  That’s why you have to add filetype:pdf by hand.


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