What's your actual paper sourcing workflow when PDFs aren't available?

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One thing paper-qa handles really well is the QA layer over documents you already have. What I've been trying to figure out is the step before that, actually getting the papers in the first place, especially for topics that go beyond ArXiv.

For context I was building a corpus covering biomedical and social science literature, neither of which is well represented on ArXiv. PubMed helps but the full text situation is inconsistent. Ended up trying scholarapi.net which pulls full text directly from open access sources across 30M+ papers, no PDF hunting, no broken links. Saved a lot of time on what is honestly the most boring part of the whole pipeline.

Curious what others are doing here. Are you mostly working with papers you already have locally, or have you found a reliable way to source at scale for domains outside the usual ArXiv/CS coverage?

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