Help Finding a Paper

[darthbob88]

I'm looking for a paper, for a project I'm working on. During the 1970's, either University of Oregon or Oregon State University received a grant to research alternative fuels, and they put that money into researching distilled ethanol. Apparently, they found it to be cheaper than anhydrous ethanol, burned cooler and more efficiently, produced less pollutants, and was in most ways superior to either gasoline or anhydrous ethanol.

While I would, legitimately, like to find this paper, I would also like to know how to find papers like this myself, so I would not be so reliant on your goodwill and kindness the next time. I thank you sincerely.

[Spin Echo]

I'm looking for a paper, for a project I'm working on. During the 1970's, either University of Oregon or Oregon State University received a grant to research alternative fuels, and they put that money into researching distilled ethanol. Apparently, they found it to be cheaper than anhydrous ethanol, burned cooler and more efficiently, produced less pollutants, and was in most ways superior to either gasoline or anhydrous ethanol.

While I would, legitimately, like to find this paper, I would also like to know how to find papers like this myself, so I would not be so reliant on your goodwill and kindness the next time. I thank you sincerely.

I'm at home so I can't help you with finding the actual paper, but I find The Web of Science to be tremendously useful. Unfortunately, it requires a subscription to access. Fortunately, lots of universities and research institutions have subscriptions. It is limited to usually the last 20 or 30 years, though. Prior to that, it's good old fashioned library research.

[Raesene]

Another option is sciencedirect, which has some free access to journals.

Medical/biological publications can laso be found at Pubmed

University libraries should have access to one or more search engines or the journals in hardcopy. Some offer the service to get the article to you by fax or email, but that might be limited to their own students.

[Prozac the Robert]

I found google scholar to be pretty useful.

[Prozac the Robert]

edit: That was worded badly. I don't meant to imply that I found your paper, just that I've found scholar useful in the past.