“He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.” -- Alan K. Simpson (Wyoming politician born 1931)
There are lots of things, thanks be to the Internet, that we can do ourselves these days. But just because we can do almost anything doesn’t mean we should try to do everything.
For example … while it can be a good thing to do your own online research, obtaining copies of the articles and papers you unearth can be so time consuming that you don’t have time to do anything else.
Document delivery, as it is called, is a task best done by your friendly corporate library staff. They are more efficient and paid less.
A concrete example … I found an interesting article on biodesulfurization.
Microbiology (2008), 154, 2169–2183
Biocatalytic desulfurization (BDS) of petrodiesel fuels
Ghasemali Mohebali1 and Andrew S. Ball2
Correspondence Ghasemali Mohebali (mohebaligh@ripi.ir)
1Department of Petroleum Biotechnology, Biotechnology Research Center, Research Institute of
Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran
2School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
One quote from the article was particularly interesting …
“Therefore, with respect to these advantages, placing the BDS unit downstream of an HDS unit as a complementary technology to achieve ultradeep desulfurization, rather than as a replacement, should also be considered.”
source: http://mic.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/154/8/2169.pdf
As I often do, I glanced at the article’s references to see what else I might want to read. Some technical articles list 10 references. This article lists almost 10 PAGES of references.
Imagine spending your precious time obtaining even a fraction of the references from such an article. You could do so … and you could wash your own windows, while you’re at it, and vacuum your own area, not to mention cleaning the rest room.
But why, when you have a perfectly good corporate library to assign this task to? (Document delivery, that is, not cleaning toilets)
And if you don’t have a corporate library, find a good document delivery specialist on the AIIP – Association of Independent Information Professionals Web (www.aiip.org)
Here is one page of the references from the above article …
First Page of References from Biocatalytic desulfurization (BDS) of petrodiesel fuels
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(2003). Multi-criteria comparison of resting cell activities of bacterial
strains selected for biodesulfurization of petroleum compounds.
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F. M. (2005). Desulfurization of dibenzothiophene, benzothiophene,
and other thiophene analogs by a newly isolated bacterium, Gordonia
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3195–3204.
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of dibenzothiophene to biphenyl by sulfate-reducing bacteria
isolated from oil field production facilities. Biotechnol Lett 17,
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Armstrong, S. M., Sankey, B. M. & Voordouw, G. (1997). Evaluation
of sulfate-reducing bacteria for desulfurizing bitumen or its fractions.
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Bahrami, A., Shojaosadati, S. A. & Mohebali, G. (2001).
Biodegradation of dibenzothiophene by thermophilic bacteria.
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aerobic bacteria. Biochem Eng J 35, 191–197.
Chang, J. H., Chang, Y. K., Cho, K.-S. & Chang, H. N. (2000).
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& Chang, H. N. (2001). Production of a desulfurization biocatalyst by
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and diesel oils. Biotechnol Prog 17, 876–880.
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Denis-Larose, C., Labbe, D., Nergron, H., Jones, A. M., Greer, C. W.,
Al-Hawari, J., Grossman, M. J., Sankey, B. M. & Lau, P. C. K.
(1997). Conservation of plasmid-encoded dibenzothiophene desulfurization
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source: http://mic.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/154/8/2169.pdf
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