On the Open Lovecraft page, I’ve removed about thirty links to PDFs on Academia.edu. PDFs there can no longer be downloaded by the public, only by the service’s members or via a search at Google Scholar. The lock-down of the PDFs appears to have happened in the last couple of weeks. My thanks to Dave Higgins for letting me know about this. If scholars want PDFs to be truly open in future, I suggest using a proper public repository instead of closed services such as Academia.edu.
Open Lovecraft updated
22 Wednesday Jul 2020
Posted in Housekeeping, Scholarly works
That’s a bit weird. I’m still downloading from Academia. I do sign in, I’ve got one paper on there, but I’m not exactly an academic.
Yes, obviously if you’re signed in to the service then you’ll get the PDF. But if you find the PDF link on the open Web, and you’re not a member, then the link will no longer work – unless it’s detected as originating with Google Scholar.