Requests for reprints of articles
I just received a request for a reprint of one of ny articles. I get these from time to time; strictly speaking I shouldn't send such reprints since they infringe the copyright of the journal, but I used to do it because the requests usually came from third-world countries where people presumably couldn't easily afford the payment.
But not once did any of these correspondents bother to thank me or even acknowledge receipt, which I take ill; it's a lot less trouble for them to reply than it is for me to find the article in question and attach it to my email. So now I no longer reply to such requests, especially when, as in today's case, the requester is a professor at a university hospital in Paris, who could no doubt easily afford the fee to the journal (which probably wouldn't come out of his own pocket anyway).
But not once did any of these correspondents bother to thank me or even acknowledge receipt, which I take ill; it's a lot less trouble for them to reply than it is for me to find the article in question and attach it to my email. So now I no longer reply to such requests, especially when, as in today's case, the requester is a professor at a university hospital in Paris, who could no doubt easily afford the fee to the journal (which probably wouldn't come out of his own pocket anyway).
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