[Coral-List] need paper

[Bill Allison]

Good suggestions Doug. I googled "Preparation of high molecular weight DNA
from hermatypic corals" which took me to
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r4u73384lq043070/
where the article is open access.

Cheers,
bill

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:01 AM, David M. Lawrence <dave at fuzzo.com> wrote:

>  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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