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> In most areas the credible references are mostly behind pay-walled repositories for which you either have to pay thousands to access or use your academic institutions access to them.

Very informative post. But I just want to point out that the specific excerpt above is largely no longer true thanks to SciHub.

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Thanks for pointing out SciHub. I never needed to use it because I had good access via my academic institute's eLibrary.

Out of curiosity I looked up some key papers in my area of MBSE and was able to find them on SciHub. In my mind that amply demonstrates that a non-academic researcher should be able to access many of the recent significant work in at least that area.

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