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I was looking for the following paper (and this keeps coming up). I am not sure if it is copyrighted/available or not.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0081965

As a profane, I don't quite understand the process by which a paper from 1969 made by a university would not be publically accessible. Is it possible ?

nicolas
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  • Try clicking on "Download book pdf" on top of the page, it works for me. Heres the link: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBFb0081959.pdf – cdwe Jul 03 '17 at 16:03
  • It seems to be accessible online if you are prepared to pay. Some libraries may have paper copies of the original conference proceedings – Henry Jul 03 '17 at 16:05
  • Sorry my mistake, it worked because i clicked while connected to a university network. Doesn't work from mobile. – cdwe Jul 03 '17 at 16:08
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    @cdwe: The paper is not freely available, but (this is for nicolas) the paper is in one of the volumes of the well known Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Mathematics series which you can find in most university libraries. In U.S. libraries they're (nearly always, if not always) shelved together in the QA3 .L28 location. – Dave L. Renfro Jul 03 '17 at 16:11

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If the university has an access to Springer, then more or less recent papers (say, up to 20-years-old, I don't remember details) are available to download from the university domain. Older papers are paid. My university has such an access. Of course, I was also surprised that old articles are impossible to download without extra money.

szw1710
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  • Older papers are usually not freely available unless they're earlier than about 1920 or so, although there are some exceptions -- the London Mathematical Society seems to have all their journal publications, no matter how old (even 1800s material), locked behind paywalls. – Dave L. Renfro Jul 03 '17 at 16:13
  • that's crazy. why would a university give away funded work for someone else to collect money ? this is totally mindblowing. unless the author is getting the paycheck of those 5 downloads a year, paid nickels by some university.. – nicolas Jul 03 '17 at 16:27