[Taxacom] Finding articles

[John Grehan]

I do agree that there have been massive developments. Just in some (for
me surprising) cases there are 'some' publications that are as hard to
get now as then. Hopefully the next decade will take care of those also.

John

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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Paul van
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Finding articles

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. 

***
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


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