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Sunday, 8 July 2018

Ask and ye shall receive

True for most journals, AFAIK. I'd feel really weird asking for free copies of papers you're "supposed" to pay for, though. Downloading them elsewhere is a much better bit of honest villainy.


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  1. Richard G8 July 2018 at 15:56

    I forget this all the time. Even though I’m happy to email my entire goddamn dissertation.

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  2. Jason Nichols8 July 2018 at 16:28

    I actually like to ask if I'm really interested. Sometimes you get more than just the paper, especially with CS/AI stuff where source code/models & weights are way more interesting and useful than the actual paper.

    Especially because half the time the source and the paper written about the source seem to share "inspiration" at best.

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  3. Michael J. Coffey8 July 2018 at 16:58

    Rhys Taylor -- I like to use the "Unpaywall" extension for Chrome. If you're on a paywall page, it'll look for a legal and free version of the same paper elsewhere and alert you. That way I know I'm getting it legally and that I'm not necessarily "supposed" to pay for it. And I'm not bothering the author(s).

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  4. Rhys Taylor8 July 2018 at 22:23

    Michael J. Coffey I didn't know about that. Thanks !

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