Advice to grad students: when you write a paper, use a gmail (or similar) for corresponding, instead of your institutional email, since institutional emails usually expire when you graduate. That way people interested in your paper can correspond with you.
@TrevorABranch I follow the logic here and can see some sense in it. What about using their university email, then when they move to another job (and email), just exporting their contacts, emails, etc. and importing into their email of choice? I've personally had good luck with that route.
@TrevorABranch Interesting. Well, it would certainly be a bummer to miss out on that conversation (if someone tried contacting you via an expired email)! I wonder if using "lifetime forwarding" email from the parent institution might work - but that may only work if you graduate from it?!
@TrevorABranch I will add that emails from public universities can be inquired via the freedom of information act ;)
@TrevorABranch I tried as a grad student. Journals wouldn’t allow it. They held off publishing until I gave them an affiliated email.
@TrevorABranch For MSc/BSc students, I usually suggest that I remain corresponding author (since I'm last on the author list anyway). A larger question is why institutional emails expire -- they don't re-use them! If concerned re uni bandwidth, the uni can request annual reauthorizations.