This is a recurring frustration for me.
I just read this opinion piece, which references a report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers. I wanted to read the actual report, not the WSJ editorial staff’s summary of it. It wasn’t hard to find, but I did first go to the “Reports” section of the CoEA site, download the 2015 report, realize that’s not it, go to the “Fact Sheets & Reports” section, where I finally found it. Total elapsed time, despite shitty internet connection on my train, was not great. But still, it would have been nice of them to provide a link.
I run into this a lot with articles about recent science publications. “Published this week in Science Magazine.” Ok so maybe it doesn’t have a page number yet. But it has a DOI assigned, so give use that. It’s more useful than vol/issue/page, anyway. Nope. Gotta go dig for it ourselves.
By the way, if anyone wants to read “Occupational Licensing: A Framework for Policymakers”, it’s here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/factsheets-reports
Might make a decent GD topic, which is why I wanted to chase it down.