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by mjn 4824 days ago
I guess it depends on your personal views, but I don't find much wrong with just using these articles. Some people even leave them "accidentally" open not really by accident (I have some colleagues who conspicuously fail to take much care to keep Google out of indexing their course reading lists).

If you really want to cross your t's legally and still not pay, you can almost always email the author and ask for a copy, and they are typically authorized by their publication agreement to privately send you a preprint. So in practice just using a version you found online is not much different, except that you save the author some time responding to your request for the same PDF by email.

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Everyone wants the citation. Good point. :)