version 1.0.0 CC BY 4.0
This python script opens a random scientific paper on a given archive (see below for the list of available archives). To make it work, you specifiy in the main function 2 parameters:
- The archive you want to use ("provider")
- The number of pages you want to open ("webpages")
Ideas to play with it:
- Boost your research creativity with unexpected references which leads to exciting perspectives
- Try to recover an article navigating through the minimum possible references of different papers departing from the output of the script.
- Play with your friends discussing who got the weirdest one.
Avilable archives:
- arXiv (from April 2007 to October 2020)
- PubMed (up to October 31st 2020) N.B: Some links are dead sometimes