This has 100% always worked for me. If my library’s online database only had an abstract of an article I really needed, I just emailed the authors and they would just send me a pdf copy. Sometimes when I told them my topic they gave me several others they had authored on similar topics.
Edit: Yes, I know about inter library loaning- but the last couple months that has really not been an option for a lot of us. Also, several other people have posted reliable sources to find papers at ResearchGate, and Sci-Hub, if you are interested. Full disclosure I am in education and just use the databases at my school, so I am not familiar with them. And yes, grammar edit, due to autocorrect.
In addition to this, authors can post their pre-copy edited version onto repositories like academia.edu and research gate. And of course you can get pretty much any paper from Sci Hub.
whycantistay on May 8th, 2020 at 15:48 UTC »
This has 100% always worked for me. If my library’s online database only had an abstract of an article I really needed, I just emailed the authors and they would just send me a pdf copy. Sometimes when I told them my topic they gave me several others they had authored on similar topics.
Edit: Yes, I know about inter library loaning- but the last couple months that has really not been an option for a lot of us. Also, several other people have posted reliable sources to find papers at ResearchGate, and Sci-Hub, if you are interested. Full disclosure I am in education and just use the databases at my school, so I am not familiar with them. And yes, grammar edit, due to autocorrect.
sunnysunnysunbear on May 8th, 2020 at 16:00 UTC »
In addition to this, authors can post their pre-copy edited version onto repositories like academia.edu and research gate. And of course you can get pretty much any paper from Sci Hub.
LeFirecracker on May 8th, 2020 at 16:03 UTC »
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