This skill should be used when the user asks to "search for academic papers", "find working papers on SSRN", "look up a DOI", "download paper PDF", "check open access availability", "search NBER papers", "find arXiv preprints", or "search CrossRef". Provides unified search, metadata retrieval, and PDF download across arXiv, NBER, SSRN, CrossRef, OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Semantic Scholar.
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-paper-searchnpx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-paper-search -a claude-code -gnpx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-paper-search -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git --path skills/68-research-productivity-skills/academic-paper-searchgh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills academic-paper-searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills /tmp/brycewang-stanford__Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/brycewang-stanford__Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/skills/68-research-productivity-skills/academic-paper-search ~/.claude/skills/academic-paper-search # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/brycewang-stanford__Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/skills/68-research-productivity-skills/academic-paper-search ~/.agents/skills/academic-paper-search # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode