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An interesting point is that if you email the author, they can send you their paper for free legally. Couldn’t a platform be created (essentially an email autoresponder) where you send a formatted request to the author, and the platform processes the request and sends the paper to you on behalf of the author?

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That's basically https://arxiv.org/. The pre-print copyright (i.e. before editor/review comments) still belongs to the author so they can post it.

The IEEE recently revised their copyright assignment terms to explicitly permit authors to upload the POST-review publication to Arxiv, along with a few other outlets.[0]

[0]: https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/publish-with-ieee/author-e...

Would you know if there’s an effort to backfill Arxiv with post review publications (superseding the previously published drafts)?

I think you are thinking of the Open Access Button: https://openaccessbutton.org/

https://www.researchgate.net/

But really, anyone with half a brain is going to try sci-hub first.

Not an issue if you have low abandonment of subscribers but an issue if everyone exchanges papers that way. You get a lot of value out of being able to search all the journals in one place. Also what happens if the author is dead or has dropped off the face of the planet.

Isn’t that just HTTP?

That would count as publication.

Sounds like a gap in the market.

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