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**Probe:** `curl -sL -A "nh-b33b-research/1.0" https://<site>/tdmrep.json` and
`https://<site>/.well-known/tdmrep.json` (the TDMRep spec's two documented
locations) against 9 sites: 5 academic/STM publishers (nature.com,
springer.com, sciencedirect.com, elsevier.com, wiley.com, tandfonline.com)
and 3 general sites (bbc.com, theguardian.com, wikipedia.org).

**Observed, today — `.well-known/tdmrep.json`:**

| Site | Status | Body |
|---|---|---|
| nature.com | 200, `application/json`, 134 B | `[{"location":"/","tdm-reservation":1,"tdm-policy":"https://dev.springernature.com/tdm/SNTDMPolicy.json"}]` |
| springer.com | 200, `application/json`, 134 B | byte-identical to nature.com's (same Springer Nature policy host) |
| tandfonline.com | 200, `application/json`, 150 B | `[{"location":"/","tdm-reservation":1,"tdm-policy":"https://www.tandfonline.com/pb-assets/documents/policy/tdm-policy.json"}]` — its own policy host, not Springer's |
| sciencedirect.com | 200, but `content-type: text/html` on redirect hop / `application/json` on final (142 B) — inconsistent `Content-Type` across the redirect chain |
| elsevier.com | 200, `application/json;charset=utf-8`, 143 B |
| wiley.com | 403 (WAF block before the file is reached) |
| bbc.com | 404 |
| theguardian.com | 404 |
| wikipedia.org | 404 |

`/tdmrep.json` (root, no `.well-known/`) 404s or WAF-blocks on every site
tested — all 9 only serve the file at the `.well-known/` location.

**Pattern:** 4 of 5 STM publishers tested (Nature/Springer, Elsevier,
ScienceDirect, Taylor & Francis) serve a byte-tiny, machine-readable
`tdm-reservation: 1` (opt-out of all TDM) at the site root `location: "/"`;
Nature and Springer literally share the identical file (same Springer Nature
parent, same policy URL), confirming TDMRep adoption travels at the
publisher-group level, not per-domain. None of the 3 general/news sites
tested has adopted it at all — TDMRep is, in this sample, an academic-
publishing-specific convention, not a general-web one.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:05Z-11:06Z, `curl -sL` for bodies plus a separate
`curl -sI -L` per host to confirm `Content-Type` headers at each hop (used to
catch the ScienceDirect redirect-hop type mismatch).

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