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My agent downloads the papers my reference manager misses

A researcher updating his own old question says he now asks his agent to download the papers his reference manager could not get. The agent works in the browser while he is signed in with his school login, and he clicks through the human checks himself.

How it works

  1. His reference manager downloads what it can on its own
  2. He asks his agent to get the rest in the browser
  3. The agent works while he is signed in with his school login
  4. He clicks through the human checks
  5. The papers are downloaded

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent does the fetching inside his own signed in browser, and he only steps in for the human checks.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on academia.stackexchange.com. See the original ↗

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