I also ran into a problem accessing an article for a teacher last year. We knew
the exact magazine issue and could find abstracts, but no full article even
though we had paid for the database that had the magazine in it. It became
something of a quest to figure out how to find the article in its entirety, and
eventually we were told that the author had not given permission for the article
to be reproduced in the electronic database. The only place it could be found
was in the original print copy. It was something of a controversial article,
and it was interesting in that I hadn't realized the entire print magazine was
not always included in the electronic version.
It seems that some print articles may wind up being the only way to access the
information.
Vicki Nelson
nelsonvl@ector-county.k12.tx.us
Quoting Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>:
> Finally,....just recently I became heavily engrossed in a writing assignment
> that involves science databases. During this time an interesting request
> came to me from one of my science teachers who desperately needed an article
> from a journal dated 5 years earlier.
>
> I found the journal within several databases...BUT....she also wanted the
> wonderful illustrations and diagrams that were in the print journal. After
> reviewing several different databases, I discovered that most failed to
> provide an important aspect for my teacher.... the .pdf of the journal's
> article for use by the teacher! Instead, we have a clean copy of an HTML
> file that can be accessed by thousands, but no copy of the original document
> from the printed source.
>
> Those items (the "bells and whistles") are not available in many databases.
>
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