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Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "On article request" (5006)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:30:39 -0700

There is also the point that, whatever you may think of journals and their publishers and the pricing of online journals and so on, and while we all know (and surely they know) that it is not at all uncommon for people to send each other copies of papers like that, the publishers' IP lawyers might take a dim view of what they might perceive as an organized effort to circumvent copyright restrictions. Such things are best kept (at least semi-)private. I think we'd rather not have hordes of lawyers descending on MO.

Yemon Choi comments on "On article request" (5002)

Yemon Choi — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:36:59 -0700

I am inclined to agree with Mariano. These things are best done by emailing someone you know, who knows someone, who knows someone else, and so on.

Mariano comments on "On article request" (5001)

Mariano — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:35:03 -0700

I would say that allowing this would result in many such requests... Ideally, such things should be done on IRC in the essentially dead channel on freenode.net, or in #math-ag, where people hang out who probably have access to online journals, or, well, elsewhere.

Jonas Meyer comments on "On article request" (5000)

Jonas Meyer — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:14:33 -0700

If your university doesn't have online or print subscriptions to a journal, then you should be able to request articles from that journal through an interlibrary loan program.

That said, sometimes it is more efficient to ask elsewhere. (I don't have an opinion on whether it is appropriate for MO.)

ShakeBaby comments on "On article request" (4998)

ShakeBaby — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:33:31 -0700

Hi all,

My university doesn't seem to have many subscriptions for online journals. I'd like to know if it is appropriate to ask at MO for a specific article that I don't have access, that others may have access to it. Or should I use meta? Or should I just never read the article?

Thank you.