Sometimes, even the authors of the work may not be legally allowed to share their work with you, because they have signed the copyright away - even though this is common practice.
Hence, in most cases, it may be a violation of copyright for an individual to give you a copy of a scientific paper, either privately or by posting it online. Most scientific papers have their copyright owned by an academic publisher (which may be a for-profit company, a scientific society, a university press, etc.), and the publisher often does not allow people to redistribute the papers that they own. As for emailing individual authors, well none have replied so far so it isn't always a practical option as I cannot wait days for 1 particular paper to be received (if any). How legal/ethical is that? The page claims that all the shared papers are based on the concept of fair use.Įventually, I have 3 options: Follow this way, adopt a bad scholarship behavior by not tracking down original references to check myself (which is out of the question) or I just go home and forget about writing a master's thesis or a literature review because it's almost impossible to access those papers without the help of option 1. What to do in this case? Someone here recommended a Reddit page that provides and shares papers upon requests. Yesterday, I started writing my master's thesis and the very basic papers behind my topic cannot be accessed through my university's portal (cannot simply ignore them) and I, obviously, don't have access/cannot pay for individual papers. I never found any paper related to my research or essays using the database that my university is subscribing to even the basic pioneering papers in business.
My university's subscription is really limited (I come from Lebanon).
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