[Coral-List] need paper

[David M. Lawrence]

  Not all journals have "Web sites" worthy of the term, and quite a few 
published by mainstream publishers charge more than $30 per article.  
Given that the article requested is 22 years old, the author(s) might 
not be easy to find.  (They could be fly fishing in Montana with no 
phone and no Internet by now.)

I don't have a problem with the information presented in this response 
-- as suggestions they are good ones -- but it strikes me as rather 
patronizing to assume that the person did not take some or all of these 
steps before putting the request out on the list.

I have to say, if the choice is between asking us if we had a copy of 
the article or shelling out $30 for it, I'd ask the list -- but I 
wouldn't bore the rest of you with a history of my search efforts before 
making the request.

Just sayin'...

Dave


On 8/15/2010 3:56 PM, Douglas Fenner wrote:
> Carla,
>       Have you thought of looking at the website for this journal?   Journals
> all have websites, and you can purchase any article from their website.
> Further, for some journals, all articles older than a few years are
> available on their website for free (for example, Marine Ecology Progress
> Series).  If not, and you don't want to buy the article, ask the author for
> a free pdf copy of the article, authors are eager to promote their articles.
> The journal website will have the abstract available for free, and may have
> the author's email listed.  If not, take a look at your copy of the
> membership directory for the International Society of Reef Studies which you
> get free with your subscription to the journal Coral Reefs.  If you don't
> subscribe, consider doing so, it is only US$95 a year, the cheapest journal
> of all (some others cost $2000 a year or more) and it is 100% coral reef
> articles while all other journals only have scattered coral reef articles,
> plus in the year when ICRS is held the registration cost for members is
> reduced by US$95 so in effect you get the journal for free that year if you
> go to the most important of all coral reef meetings.  It's a great deal,
> subscribe!  If you still aren't a member, ask your friends if they are and
> you can use their copy of the membership directory.  If you don't have any
> friends who are members, do a web search on the author's name and see if you
> can get their email address.  Oh, and just try a search on Google scholar
> for the article, and look in ReefBase (www.reefbase.org).  ReefBase has many
> thousands of articles in their literature section.
>       Doug Fenner
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carla"<carlazilber at yahoo.com.br>
> To:<coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 11:03 AM
> Subject: [Coral-List] need paper
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> Does anyone have the pdf of the following paper?
>
>
>
> McMillan, J., Yellowlees, D, Heyward, A, Harrison, P.&Miller, D. J. 1988
> Preparation of high molecular weight DNA from hermatypic corals and its use
> for DNA hybridization and cloning. Mar. Biol. 98, 271^276.
>
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
> Carla
>
>
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