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This is, of course, obviously and objectively evil (or about as close as it's possible to get). Any LWers care to start a Scholars Bay?
(or at least some private IRC channel where LWers with paywall keys can share them with those without)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange is an existing forum for pretty much this as long as you edit Wikipedia a little. I've used it in the past effectually, on both ends.
(Wikipedia gets so much traffic that it would be very useful for LessWrongers to try to spread the academic citations we've found most useful through relevant WP articles.)
I agree, but many do not.
Rather ironic. A book about ethics and super-intelligence.
Interesting. I realize this is a common requirement and is often assumed, but did that call specifically exclude papers which had already been submitted to a free repository?
There's a very good version of exactly this existing over the domain "stuff a lefty academic would find interesting." Which is rather bizarre category, on the face of it - Derrida and Andre Gunder Frank have nothing in common in terms of methodology or subject matter, united entirely in terms of peoplespace - but peoplespace (in this case I'm guessing "grad students who don't want books cutting into the ramen budget") is how informal networks operate, so.
(The two best free legal resources for Ye Olde Classics of Social Thoughte, marxists.org and the Library of Economics and Liberty, are ideologically flavored as well. You can take this as a sign that the social sciences are woefully riven by bias or just accept that the questions are ideological by their very nature.)
Scribd used to be a very nice Scholars Bay, but it seems to have gone legit.
I've posted some advice on How to Get Academic Papers for Free.
Great advice Luke.
I have a suggestion for those who don't want to abuse university resources. Some universities give donors to the library access to journals. I'll be graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park, soon and I'm fully addicted to journals in basically every subject, so I intend to take advantage of their Friends of The Libraries Borrowers Program. This, unfortunately, is not free, but it's well worth the money to me.
This program would also give me access to the library's Interlibrary Loan services, which I've found to be incredibly useful for obscure papers and books.
I did that with my local UCLA library, but it didn't give me electronic access to papers off-campus, nor access to interlibrary loan. But I'm moving to the Bay Area and I hear the San Francisco library system is better about that.