How to learn stuff quickly (in a scholarly fashion)

[alexandra_thorn]

This blog post looks like a nice concise resource on how to acquire scholarly information quickly. It's short, and I recommend it.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/5me/scholarship_how_to_do_it_efficiently/

I'll add to the remarks on the usefulness of university libraries that I've heard from a librarian friend of mine that a lot of public libraries subscribe to databases of scholarly articles, so online access to otherwise ludicrously expensive (seriously, don't pay $20 for an article) information can often be had with the use of a city library card.