[Taxacom] Finding articles

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

From: "John Grehan" <jgrehan at sciencebuff.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:50 PM

> What I find most interesting about the 'modern' state of bibliographic
> information is that it is still as hard to obtain copies of some early
> publications as it was 30 years ago. 

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Surely not. At the moment I am going through a bibliographic list
compiled by an eminent botanist with full access to one of the 
richest libraries in the world, and a quite decent proportion of
those papers are in BHL. More significantly, a decent percentage
of the papers that are marked as "[Not seen]" in that list is present
in BHL, so I can now instantly see papers that were not available 
in that very large library. There is not full coverage, not by a long 
shot, but there is a quite gratifying amount of literature available
online. There is a huge difference compared to 30 years ago.

Paul