Where to gather data and learn new concepts for your research: a more or less comprehensive guide I'll try to not spend your time, let's get to business right away. The first step of any research project is literature review. You need to know what you are doing and what has already been done. There are a few ways to do it: published papers, books, theses. This article in not concerned with the way data is processed, only with sources. Disclaimer: this article doesn't endorse violating law and is purely hypothetical. Please abide by the rules and the social contract (courtesy of John Locke). Papers Peer-reviewed papers are published in journals and avaliable if you or your university (if you happen to be a student) have a subscription. Which is expensive. Very expensive. There are a few ways to get them for free, more or less legal. Everyone uses them so don't be shy, but having proxy or better yet Tor configured is handy in case your government blocked these sites. Sci-
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