How can a lay person learn how to uncover data results from specific social science studies?

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Google Scholar

However, it can be very difficult to find articles en masse, and this is the big difference between being inside or outside an institution. Many of the services for finding research materials are proprietary commercial resources. Much of the data is indexed from Scopus, which effectively buys and sells data on publications, and is closely guarded. Google Scholar, as others have suggested, is a resource, however it is limited. As with Google Search, Scholar is good at throwing a lot of marginally related material at you from a wide range of disciplines, and leaving it up to you to determine the answer. This is not very easy to do, especially if you don't have the experience of knowing what journals are relevant or respected in different fields. I would suggest that you could actually just go to your local library, or perhaps even try your luck at an institutional library. There is a library code of ethics that is about trying to help and expand people's knowledge and access to information, and provided the person isn't too tied up with institutional politics/barriers, they'll probably help you anyway.

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Academia.edu

In response to finding specific resources, you are somewhat on the outside of the institutional wall. It is usually easy to access articles for free. JSTOR, institutional repositories, etc. There are academic pirate libraries, such as found at r/AAAAARG and academia.edu has a lot of papers.

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