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419 points thepuppet33r | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.259s | source
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1propionyl ◴[19 Nov 24 03:03 UTC] No.42179723[source]▶
A reminder to everyone: if you want a "legal" copy of a paper you can always just try emailing one of the first authors. They will 99.99% send you back a PDF.
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1. dredmorbius ◴[19 Nov 24 17:36 UTC] No.42186061[source]▶
Dead authors don't.

The friction is tremendously higher than on-demand downloadable options: LibGen, SciHub, ZLibrary, Anna's Archive, or even sources such as ArXiv, SocArXiv, SSRN, which are far more fragmentary and limited.