Paper Mills
There are three types of papers available on the Web:
1) Papers "published" by students or instructors as part of classroom assignments or research projects.
2) Papers that can be downloaded for free. These papers can come from a variety of sources like online magazines, papers published by organizations specifically for the Web, or papers published by individuals.
3) Traditional paper mills.
Paper mill is the term used to describe online databases that offer research papers on thousands of topics. Some paper mills operate via straight exchanges; you give them a paper of yours and they give you a paper in return; others charge by the essay or page; and others offer customized papers.
Most of these sites have a disclaimer stating that papers retrieved from the site are intended for "educational" purposes only. The disclaimer from papers123.com reads, "The intended purpose of our example of college papers is that they be used as study aids or models of what a good college paper should look like" (Paper Store Enterprises par.1). Regardless of the content of these disclaimers, operators of paper mills are usually indifferent to what students do with papers retrieved from their site.
Paper Mills
The following links are to some of the more popular paper mills:
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