Christian Lawson-PerfectJan 11

My bot @esoterica largely only posts entries with open access contents, because the commercial publishers tend to block my request to check that the link still exists.

That means that some really interesting closed-access stuff is never posted. For example, today it would have picked "Theory and applications of the double-base number system" (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/805158) but ieeexplore blocked it.

Should I change it to toot entries even when the request is blocked, at the expense of people without institutional access being unable to read the content, or should I leave things as they are?

(I do try to find legitimate open copies of papers where possible)

Theory and applications of the double-base number system - IEEE Journals & Magazine

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@christianp I'd vote for having it as a different account, since people who follow the open access one but don't have institutional access may not want the other posts. But if that's a technical problem, marking the posts differently so they can be filtered is a good alternative.
Jan 11 at 2:50pmWeb