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With the exception of old and obscure papers (i.e., 15 years or more and not cited in the last 5 years), I don't really see what the big problem is. I have yet to mail an author and not receive a pdf of the paper, usually within days, sometimes within minutes. When you have a reference and Google, you're seconds away from finding that author's current affiliation & email address. I once emailed the author of a book t…
I got bored reading the post so started to look around the website. I think the Domains for Sale page ( http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/auction-of-domains-for-sale/ ) only clarifies my initial thoughts on this person.
Is this legal?
I got bored reading the post so started to look around the website. I think the Domains for Sale page ( http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/auction-of-domains-for-sale/ ) only clarifies my initial thoughts on this person.
I don't care if the guy smuggles cocaine on the side, this specific thing he's doing seems like a really useful service.
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Good luck with emailing authors of papers which are 70 years old. In mathematics good results never outdate, so there is no rule of thumb "if it is still relevant, author must be still alive".
But those perennial papers are usually so widely spread that a simple google search will bring them up, or otherwise somebody in the department will have a copy on their hard disk; so finding it is as simple as asking 'hey who has xyz' on the internal mailing list. Maybe it's different in mathematics, I don't know, I'm just stating my experiences. Few fields are as long-lasting as mathematics, too, I think; in most f…
Sure, for applied (or even - experimental) sciences it is different.
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Good luck with emailing authors of papers which are 70 years old. In mathematics good results never outdate, so there is no rule of thumb "if it is still relevant, author must be still alive".
But those perennial papers are usually so widely spread that a simple google search will bring them up, or otherwise somebody in the department will have a copy on their hard disk; so finding it is as simple as asking 'hey who has xyz' on the internal mailing list. Maybe it's different in mathematics, I don't know, I'm just stating my experiences. Few fields are as long-lasting as mathematics, too, I think; in most f…
You are not making a convincing argument that papers are already "free enough". Unless you assume all interested parties are from the academic world, that is...
With the exception of old and obscure papers (i.e., 15 years or more and not cited in the last 5 years), I don't really see what the big problem is. I have yet to mail an author and not receive a pdf of the paper, usually within days, sometimes within minutes. When you have a reference and Google, you're seconds away from finding that author's current affiliation & email address. I once emailed the author of a book t…
And I had no idea about Mark Williams C.