Organization Alert: TDI Library Services

“The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.” -- Winston Churchill (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

Document delivery is one of the things librarians and other information professionals do to help you get the information you need to do your work. “Document delivery” means getting the full text of articles and conference papers referenced at the end of peer reviewed articles.

Here, for example, is a paper that cites several interesting articles …

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Petroleum & Coal ISSN 1337-7027
Available online at www.vurup.sk/pc
Petroleum & Coal 51 (4) 229-236, 2009
INVESTIGATION ON EFFECTIVENESS PARAMETERS IN RESIDUE UPGRADING METHODS
A. Dehghani, M. Sattarin, H. Bridjanian, Kh. Mohamadbeigy
Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran – P.O. Box 14665137, Email: dehghania@ripi.ir
Source: http://www.vurup.sk/pc/vol51_2009/issue4/pdf/pc_4_2009_dehdani_039.pdf

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You can purchase many of the cited articles on the Web for immediate download. But some of them, you can’t. For example …

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EXAMPLE: Reference No. 5
Dickenson, R., Johnson, H., Chang, E., “Toward Higher Value Transportation Fuels from Residual Fuel Oil”, SFA Pacific, Inc., 3rd. Bottom of the Barrel Technology Conference & Exhibition, Antwerp,(2004).
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How do you get a copy of a paper that is not available for download? Contact your librarian. If your organization does not employ a librarian, try a document delivery specialist like TDI (www.tdico.com/). According to its Web …

“TDI was founded on the principle that we would locate and deliver virtually any article, anywhere. More important, we believe in providing a full range of services, and treating every job with equal care. That dedication to service continues to drive our business today -- it's part of everything we do.”

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