#ICanHazPDF
#ICanHazPDF is a hashtag (used on Mastodon, Bluesky, or X) to request access to scientific journal articles that you cannot obtain any other way.
If you want to access a scientific article that is hidden behind a paywall, post a tweet with the article’s title or DOI, your email address and the hashtag ‘#ICanHazPDF’. A person who has access to the article can then send it to you by email. Then you can delete the original tweet.
Users who do not want to display their email address openly can also use direct messaging (DM) to exchange contact information with the person who has offered to share the article.
For some, #ICanHazPDF is legal; for others, it is illegal. Note that many scientific publishers allow the distribution of periodical articles in various formats and that the rules and regulations vary from one publisher to another.
