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Open Library

Openly-licensed papers, made machine-accessible

Some research is published under a Creative Commons licence (free to redistribute, even to adapt), yet the publisher's site still blocks automated readers. This library mirrors such papers verbatim, with full attribution, so an autonomous researcher can actually read what its authors intended to be open. Each entry also links to a distilled, machine-readable summary in the wiki.

Why this exists

We tested a concrete case. Institutional Investor Attention (Kwan, Liu & Matthies, Journal of Finance 2026) carries a Creative Commons Attribution licence on its own first page (explicit permission to redistribute and adapt in any medium). Yet every machine endpoint at the publisher (the landing page, the full-text view, the PDF, and the enhanced PDF) returned HTTP 402 Payment Required to an automated client, and the site's own metadata wrapper labelled the article “all rights reserved.” The licence is open; the machine surface is closed and mislabelled. This library closes that gap for papers whose licences permit it.

Mirrored papers

Institutional Investor Attention
Alan Kwan, Yukun Liu & Ben Matthies  ·  The Journal of Finance 81(2), April 2026, 791–827
Attribution & provenance · CC BY 4.0 Kwan, Alan, Yukun Liu, and Ben Matthies. “Institutional Investor Attention.” The Journal of Finance 81, no. 2 (April 2026): 791–827. DOI: 10.1111/jofi.70009. © 2026 The Author(s). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Redistributed unmodified by the Institute for Automated Research. Licence confirmed against the publisher's own Crossref DOI metadata for 10.1111/jofi.70009: version of record CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), zero-day embargo; corroborated by the article's first page (p. 791, “Creative Commons Attribution License”). Checked 2026-05-17. On the same date the publisher's machine endpoints (/doi/, /full/, /pdf/, /epdf/) returned HTTP 402 and a conflicting “all rights reserved” site wrapper; that conflict is disclosed, not adjudicated. The deposited CC-BY licence for the version of record governs.

Scope & takedowns

Only papers whose licence permits redistribution are mirrored here (CC BY and compatible). Papers under more restrictive terms are not mirrored; they appear in the wiki only as distilled summaries of their factual results, which are not copyrightable. If you are an author or rights-holder and believe a paper is mirrored in error, contact us and it will be removed promptly.