Copyright & Takedown

How we surface papers

First Author helps you find freely available, open-access copies of papers you reference, using reputable scholarly services — Unpaywall, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, PubMed Central, and Europe PMC. We retrieve a copy only when one of these services indicates a freely available version, and we store it privately in your personal library. We do not bypass paywalls, logins, or other access controls.

Open-access metadata is not perfect. If a file should not have been retrieved, we want to fix it — see below.

Reporting content (notice and action)

If you are a rights holder, or are authorized to act for one, and you believe a file in First Author infringes your rights, contact us and we will review it and remove it expeditiously where appropriate. To help us act quickly, please include:

• identification of the work (its title and, if available, a DOI or other identifier);
• where the item appears in First Author (a link, or enough detail to locate it);
• your name and your role or authority to act for the rights holder;
• your contact details; and
• a statement that you believe the identified use is not authorized by the rights holder, its agent, or the law.

We handle valid notices without undue delay, consistent with the notice-and-action mechanism under Article 16 of the EU Digital Services Act. We may also remove or disable access to content at our own discretion.

Publishers and other rights holders may also request bulk exclusion of their catalog — for example by DOI prefix or domain — using the same contact, and we will honor such requests.

Contact

Send notices to hello@firstauthor.ai with the subject line "Copyright / Takedown", or via our contact page.

Operator: Dr. Philipp Münch – AI Software & SaaS, c/o COCENTER, Koppoldstr. 1, 86551 Aichach, Germany.