Where to post Academic Articles (libranet.de)

submitted 1 year ago by fu@libranet.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I was recently unable to find a particular journal article I wanted to read that was referenced in something else I was reading. I only could find an abstract on Google Scholar, and nothing at all on Z-lib. I was able to get a full copy by just emailing the author at her university (I guess its true that most of them will give you a PDF if you ask. they are just glad SOMEONE is actually reading their work). But now that I have it, I fell obligated to share it with the world, the question is, where is the best place to put it?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Considering the version you were given by the author could be watermarked in some way, and they could get into shit from a publisher if you uploaded it for mass retrieval, you ought not to do this without their express permission. It's different if you had downloaded the article from a journal/database yourself, or if it was some other version (like an unformatted manuscript).

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

They can't get shit - you can. They're allowed to give it to people who ask. You're not allowed to upload it for mass retrieval.

[-] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

They're allowed to give it to people who ask.

I think that very much depends on what sort of article/chapter, what publisher, and what the nature of the copy the author has is (e.g. preprint, journal published version download, unpublished Word manuscript, etc.) It's hard to make any true generalisations here.