Aaron Swartz Co-Founder of Reddit was charged with stealing millions of scientific journals from a computer archive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in an attempt to make them freely available.

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Google Scholar

2) Google scholar. If you know exactly what you are after then this will turn it up, and likely have a direct link to a pdf or similar copy on the search results. 90% of the time, if it doesn't show up here then it isn't on the open internet.

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arXiv

1) Check the arXiv. This is a place scientists publish pre-publication copies of their papers, usually at the stage they are submitted but before peer review and editing. At this stage the authors are the only copyright holders, so there is no infringement. They may be under difference licenses, but generally very permissive. The papers may not fully represent the final copy (notably for style), but are often 1-1 as far as content goes. Originally only for physics, now there are versions for many other fields as well. The original intent was to prove your work in competitive fields at time of submission, so someone who got published through a faster review process couldn't trump your results.

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SCI-HUB

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