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===Convenience links===
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A ''convenience link'' is a link to a copy of your source on a web page provided by someone other than the original publisher or author. For example, a copy of a newspaper article no longer available on the newspaper's website may be hosted elsewhere. When offering convenience links, it is important to be reasonably certain that the convenience copy is a true copy of the original, without any changes or inappropriate commentary, and that it does not infringe the original rights-holders' copyrights. Accuracy can be assumed when the hosting website appears reliable.

For [[Scholarly communication|academic sources]], the convenience link is typically a reprint provided by an [[open-access repository]], such as the author's university's library or [[institutional repository]]. Such [[green open access]] links are generally preferable to [[paywall]]ed or otherwise commercial and [[Free content|unfree]] sources.

Where several sites host a copy of the material, the site selected as the convenience link should be the one whose general content appears most in line with [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]] and [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]].