| To quote from a comment I made in response to a similar query the other day: I've an FT subscription and often post articles, but I try to do a search and find an alternate link - quite a bit of FT content is syndicated fairly quickly to non-paywalled sites. A few days ago, an FT article that I'd posted and then searched for showed up with the OCLC domain [1]. I've been trying to figure out how it all works, but have failed. If you try to hit "baldwinlib.idm.oclc.org", you get a login page. [1] That was referring to: https://www-ft-com.baldwinlib.idm.oclc.org/ - it turned up when I'd searched in DDG for an FT article's headline. Then, maybe yesterday or the day before, a similar search turned up an FT article via: https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.babson.edu/ Anyhow, it seems to offend some people if links are posted to paywalled sites, and it seems to offend others if one posts a paywalled link and then adds a non-paywalled link in comments. I have, therefore, been experimenting with posting the non-paywalled links via these resources if a search doesn't turn up a syndicated copy of the original article. I suspect that the university-linked resource sites referenced here will probably close these loopholes pretty sharpish. If any moderators see this, I would be happy to learn of any HN party line, or preference, about this behaviour. (Guidance welcomed by comment or by email. Thanks.) |