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> In many cases that I have come across, the DOI can be turned into a link that takes you to the article. Perhaps that would be enough.

This would be a very simple but extremely helpful change. You only need to prepend http://dx.doi.org/ in front of the DOI, and make the resulting link clickable.

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Ok, I'll add that tonight.

edit: done.

You could also add the various other efforts in Open Access domain that were linked on this page to your http://thepaperbay.com/others/ page. There was at least Pirate University, articleak, and /r/scholar.

Also, while it's okay to have a somewhat complexe form to fill when making a request, it's really sad that it's as much work to share a paper, it should be very easy, in particular when clicking "I have this, send it", the form should have only one field: the file upload, or at least have the other prefilled with the request's values.

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