<p>Universities spend <em>billions</em> each year to pay to access research papers (and that's mostly taxpayers' money). Paywalls slow down research. US Federal student loan debt is $1.5 trillion, and textbooks that cost over 100 USD don't help. </p>

<p>I don't think we should be so proactive to defend the academic publishing industry by trying to guess if a PDF cannot be made available online on a certain website.</p>

<p>Therefore, I think we should do nothing and let the publishers directly contact Stack Exchange if they wish.</p>

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<p>For further information:</p>

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<li><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/29923/452">Reference for annual journal subscription costs paid per university</a></li>
<li><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/71970/452">Are there any known Universities that refuse to pay for paywall access to academic journals?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/31605/452">What are the profit margins of academic publishers?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">A Look at the Shocking Student Loan Debt Statistics for 2018</a>  (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180326184632/https://studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mirror</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/63619/452">How much revenue do academic authors make on their published books?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://opendata.stackexchange.com/q/7084/1652">Bulk download Sci-Hub papers</a></li>
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