Timeline for Is it right and polite to ask for a free copy of a published paper?
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| Dec 26, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | Troy Woo | @Senex However, I suspect the most important thing is you citing it :-). | |
| Dec 26, 2016 at 15:49 | answer | added | Pradeeban Kathiravelu | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 11:39 | comment | added | Senex | Perhaps not relevant for your question, but if you ask someone for a copy of a paper, and then you cite it in one of your own papers, I think it is good manners to mention in your paper's acknowledgements "We thank X for supplying offprints." | |
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| May 28, 2014 at 5:09 | comment | added | David Roberts | What's the paper? | |
| May 27, 2014 at 23:37 | comment | added | Nick Stauner | Related: "Is it rude to request a book chapter from the academic who wrote it if you don't want to buy the entire textbook?" | |
| May 27, 2014 at 19:28 | comment | added | user126190 | If I were you, I would move my attention towards the OpenScience Movement . A lot of great people are working there and it is quite likely that you will find a paper of related content for FREE :-) A great place to start is the Figshare data repository (figshare.com) Also, in my personal opinion, I think knowledge should be free and paying for knowledge is unacceptable . | |
| May 27, 2014 at 13:33 | comment | added | Chris H |
I assume you've looked for an institutional repository at the lead author's institution - they're often but not always found by googling the paper title in quotes with site:inst.edu as well. At least here in the UK some public libraries are getting some journal access, that might be worth looking into.
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| May 27, 2014 at 11:49 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @JeffE: maybe Ben meant to put emphases on the word "paper reprints"? I would be more than happy to e-mail copies of my papers to people who want it, but if they person writes to ask for an offprint, I would either politely decline (of my published papers only 1 journal has ever sent me any offprints) or just completely ignore. | |
| S May 27, 2014 at 7:44 | history | suggested | smci | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 27, 2014 at 5:13 | comment | added | JeffE | in the modern era, where it doesn't make sense — What? Of course it makes sense, especially if the paper is in a discipline whose authors still follow the archaic practice of not making their papers freely available on the web. And by that, I mean most disciplines. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 1:24 | answer | added | Ben Kovitz | timeline score: 19 | |
| May 26, 2014 at 17:57 | comment | added | Per Alexandersson | I would be more than happy if anyone wanted to ask for my papers; just sayin' | |
| May 26, 2014 at 17:10 | comment | added | bdeonovic | It should be noted that most universities will provide access to their students to papers that are behind a 'paywall'. Ask your library on information for how to get access to such papers. | |
| May 26, 2014 at 16:51 | answer | added | user2379888 | timeline score: 31 | |
| May 26, 2014 at 15:14 | comment | added | user1482 | Our present norms and customs, including contracts that authors sign with journals, often contain a huge amount of archaic weirdness based on how things were in the 20th century. Before the internet, people used to request paper reprints from authors. That made sense then. What you're describing is a situation where we reproduce that custom in the modern era, where it doesn't make sense. An example of what would make sense would be for the author to use a preprint server such as arxiv. Authors want their work to be widely read. If journals make that harder, then journals are the enemy. | |
| May 26, 2014 at 14:54 | history | edited | Peter Jansson |
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| May 26, 2014 at 11:55 | comment | added | user4511 | Sometimes, it is important to explain why you are interested in the paper. | |
| May 26, 2014 at 8:55 | answer | added | David Richerby | timeline score: 39 | |
| May 26, 2014 at 8:00 | answer | added | Peter Jansson | timeline score: 32 | |
| May 26, 2014 at 7:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/470831373201068033 | ||
| May 26, 2014 at 7:36 | answer | added | SLx64 | timeline score: 59 | |
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| May 26, 2014 at 6:57 | history | asked | Maximiliano Sorrohcotom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |