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I haven't dug into the details of the paper yet, but I want to commend the authors for 1.) making it possible to actually download the PDF and 2.) giving some i

by b6 12y ago

I haven't dug into the details of the paper yet, but I want to commend the authors for 1.) making it possible to actually download the PDF and 2.) giving some indication, within the actual document, when the paper was published. I'm being a little bit snarky, but I'm very sincere in thanking them.

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kleiba 12y ago
It's usually not that the authors don't want to provide PDFs but with scientific journals you're often asked to sign a form that transfers the copyrights to the journal. In other words, you're not allowed to make the paper available even though you're the author. In my experience, finding out when a paper was published is often not too difficult. In most cases, Google makes it easy to find the Journal issue and/or the conference proceedings of the paper. Or you find some third paper that contains a reference with date information that you can then use to double check.
rcpt 12y ago
>making it possible to actually download the PDF The journal they published in, Physical Review X, is a newer open-access journal from APS (along the same lines as PLOS ONE or Nature Scientific Reports). I think it's great but not everyone agrees. To read more on the debate around the open-access phenomenon look at http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/10/04/open-access-is-not-the-problem/ http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/10/04/open-access-is-not-the-... and http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full
vilda 12y ago
The PDF link works perfectly for me: http://amaral-lab.org/media/publication_pdfs/PhysRevX.5.011007.pdf http://amaral-lab.org/media/publication_pdfs/PhysRevX.5.0110...