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Ask HN: How best to share papers in an open source repo?

by chrstphrhrt on 1/22/20, 11:37 PM with 1 comments

So I am planning to release something soon and would like to share the handful of copyrighted papers that have inspired it, which were all obtained publicly on the internet.

Should I find canonical URLs and link, or would it be fine to have a directory with the PDFs for easier reference?

  • by lamchob on 1/23/20, 6:54 AM

    You have two options:

    * DOI Numbers, which uniquely identify scientific papers

    * "Paper style" citations, with Authors, Title, publishing Venue and date. This is enough for any interested reader to find the sources

    I would not recommend hosting copyrighted material in a personal repository.