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Your doctor recommends piracy
File piracy is not limited to basement dwelling teenagers. According to an article in the The Internet Journal of Medical Informatics, there are websites with a lively exchange of toll-gated articles from medical journals. People register and post request for articles by providing URLs. Good souls with subscriptions then post the requested PDFs. The article reports on an unnamed website with various discussion forums, some of which featured such requests. The author interprets the existence of such forums and the willingness of subscribers to help out as a clear signal that more open access to research is needed.
[Posted at 10/26/2009 06:27 PM by Christian Zimmermann on Piracy 
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I would like to participate in these forums, since I have access to a lot of scientific journals
[Comment at 10/27/2009 12:30 PM by Anonymous]
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