“'But then,'
thought Alice. 'shall I never get any older than
I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but
then--always to have lessons to learn!'” -- Lewis Carroll (English
Logician, Mathematician, Photographer and Novelist. 1832-1898)
ADDENDUM: MORE ON DOCUMENT ACQUISITION
There will be times when you can’t find an online source for the full text of
an article. This is especially true of older
articles. It is also a common problem
when attempting to find a paper delivered at a conference.
For example, one of the references listed in Tables of Collision Integrals and Second Virial Coefficients for the
[m,6,8] Intermolecular Potential Function, by Max Klein. H.J.M. Hanley,
Francis J. Smith, and Paul Holland (1974) is …
Hanley, H.J.M.,
Klein, Max, National Bureau of Standards, Tech. Note 360
If we needed to acquire the full text of this item, we would not be able to
find it on the Web.
At this point, we would contact a third party specializing in document
delivery. Three of the best known are ..
British Library Document Supply Service (BLDSS) (www.bl.uk/bldss)
Source for scholarly journals, conference
proceedings, books, patents, grey literature (government and federal
publications), technical reports, theses and dissertations, newspapers, and
musical scores
Linda Hall
Library of Science, Engineering and Technology (https://www.lindahall.org/)
Source for scholarly journals, conference
proceedings, government documents, historical documents, foreign language
journals, monographs, conference proceedings, indexes and abstracts, technical
reports, engineering standards and specifications, patents, and technical
meeting papers from engineering societies
PADDS -
Petroleum Abstracts Document Delivery Service (https://www.pa.utulsa.edu/services.mhtml)
In addition to over 1.1 million documents
cited in Petroleum Abstracts, PADDS provides documents from the entire
collection of The University of Tulsa library. PADDS has served the document
delivery needs of the petroleum industry for more than 40 years.
Download Document
Delivery: Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard – 2012 Update
(http://info.reprintsdesk.com/Portals/28841/docs/outselldocdel-rd.pdf
) for a complete list of major document delivery vendors.
Visit www.JeanSteinhardtConsulting.com
for more tips and tricks.
No comments:
Post a Comment