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By emailing the academic author and pleading for an illicit Word doc? Often works, but unreliable owing to holidays ...
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. Research assessment "impact" criteria should be overhauled so they look at just citations, but readership – as gauged by number of successful downloads.
I think this means "they don't look just at citations" rather than that they assess whether the citation was just.
thanks for spotting missing not - has now been added
11 April 2012 5:15am
Seems to work OK. There has been no academic paper I have been unable to access for free; behind a paywall or no. How is it done? that's for me to know and you to find out.