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I’d definitely avoid using the gov email address. This may be another difference between my field and what you are doing, but if a .gov emailed me asking for my work I’d redirect them to my security manager, expecting it to be one of those “oops you got phished, be more careful!” type of cyber training emails. I’d also offer that you might look up the person you’re emailing; I’ve published under at least 2 different student email addresses that I no longer have access to. If you happen to know my name you’ll find my current contact info pretty quickly on google, but if you email [email protected] that email is going straight into the void

Very true. I’ve benefited from doing that countless times, and I keep final drafts of all of my work in folders organized by publisher title explicitly so that I can pass it forward if anybody ever emails me looking for something ive written that is now behind a paywall

(I deleted my last comment because it ended up more vitriolic than I want on the internet forever, but for anybody reading this afterwards the gist of my deleted comment earlier in the thread was “I do not respect academic publishers”)

Meh. My general opinion on academic publishers is such that I’d rather pirate it to avoid giving them the page view anyway. Entities that exist to gate knowledge can universally go fuck themselves

In case somebody made the meme because they need that paper and couldnt get it, enjoy.

Edit: generally, you can find a ton of hard to get papers by searching the first 5 or 6 words of the title plus “pdf” , “reasearchgate”, or “arxiv” at the end of the search string

He actually said that in 2001

If it makes you feel better, thats also true in every other field of science. All models are wrong, but some are useful