Can you ask a researcher for their paper?

The answer is, without hesitation, always yes. Science can only progress when we have access to the literature. At this point, I’m fielding 4 or 5 paper requests per week, and I imagine many other scientists are doing the same. Most of the time the requests are simple and straight forward.

How do I send an email to a researcher requesting for their research materials?

Your email should:

1. have an informative subject line.
2. be concise.
3. be formal: Dear Dr. Smith; Sincerely, Your Name.
4. not use Mrs. or Ms.
5. NOT have slang, abbreviations, or emoticons.
6. if applying for an opening: address any qualifications the professor is looking for.
7. if asking for a research opportunity:

How do you share a research paper?

There are some very simple things you can do first:

1. Add the paper to the list of publications on your lab website.
2. Tell your friends and colleagues.
3. Email a list of key people in your field telling them (briefly) that it has been published and giving them a link to the full text.
4. Add it to your LinkedIn profile.

Is it legal to share papers on ResearchGate?

Can I share my article on ResearchGate? You are always able to share the preprint version or a link to your article anywhere you wish. If you have published your article gold open access under a commercial license (CC BY), you can also post your final article.

How do you ask researchers for data?

How to ask for datasets

1. Don’t be shy. Let’s get this out of the way first.
2. Make your purpose clear.
3. Make sure you’ve done your homework.
4. Make your affiliation clear.
5. Find the right point of contact.
6. Don’t be a jerk.
7. Be respectful.
8. Be responsible.

How do you ask a researcher about their work?

Questions to ask:

1. Why does this study matter?
2. Why did you want to do this study?
3. How does this study relate to your other work?
4. What was your role in the study?
5. What surprised you the most?
6. Did you change any of your or your family’s habits as a result of anything you learned from this study?

Where can I share research?

Dryad Digital Repository. Dryad is a curated general-purpose repository that makes data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.

Harvard Dataverse. Harvard Dataverse is an online data repository where scientists can preserve, share, cite and explore research data.

Open Science Framework.

Zenodo.

Can you share paper privately?

If the article is open access from the journal publisher, you can share it publicly or private. If it is not open access from the publisher, share the article privately, otherwise it is considered as violation of copyright. The form of request for a full published paper should conform to the copyright law.

Is downloading from ResearchGate illegal?

As an author of a publication, you transfer copyright to the publisher. If the journal is subscription-based, you are given limited rights to share your article. Therefore, sharing your article on a platform such as ResearchGate is not permitted.

How does a researcher send an email?

Usually a researcher will be affiliated with some institution that has its own email domain. Usually researchers will use this email domain to send email, when they enquire with colleagues. Thus, any author can easily verify that the inquiry comes from someone actually working in their field (or at least a fellow academic).

Where can I find a free copy of a research paper?

Use a search engine to see if there’s a free copy online – many authors put their papers on their own websites and, in some fields, on ArXiv or other repositories.

Can an author verify that the inquiry comes from a fellow author?

Thus, any author can easily verify that the inquiry comes from someone actually working in their field (or at least a fellow academic). I have sent out several requests for papers to authors.

Can I Share my research paper with a friend?

Luckily, the two biggest publishing houses Elsivier and Springer permit authors to share their papers. It depends on journal’s copyright policies. Usually, most of the journals policies allow authors to share papers with their friends and colleagues.