I was thinking of pdf cop
Pam, thanks for your comments on reprints.
I was thinking of pdf copies, not print reprints. As lead author of two different journals without free online access, I received CDs with pdf copies for entire issue. One gave rights for posting on our website (Hmonghealth.org). Later, the editor of that issue said we could post on PubMed Central, but not a MEDLINE indexed title.... However, I have found PubMed indexing for a limited number of articles (usually one) from nursing/allied titles not indexed in MEDLINE, as part of database coverage checks for key journal lists. So I don't really understand the PubMed coverage policies - other thoughts?
As I tried to say, contacting authors can be very helpful to requesters, especially when dealing with relatively rare conditions. Part of why they publish is to be the recognized expert, and they are interested in helping beyond their service area. I'll never forget the community-based physician request that lead to my first (paper) SCI search at University library across the river. He'd discovered a syndrome named after him, and was presenting at a conference in Switzerland. He even brought back a gift that I still have.
Sometimes what's needed is a specialist referral/consultation, not just the article.
Peg
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From: "Sieving, Pamela (NIH/OD/ORS) [E]" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [MEDLIB-L] Sources for free full-text medical articles (MEDLIB-L ILL's)
A few months back I did a quick and dirty comparison between two options facing many authors: reprint charges and charges
for open-access publication. While this wasn't comprehensive, it was clear that the charges for a few hundred reprints is often very close to the costs to make an article instantly available to everyone in the world with access to the Internet.
To be fair, I don't know how many people without Internet access might request print copies of the article from the author; we certainly cannot assume that everyone has this, but I wonder how many without access have access to indices and reference lists and postage. But there are also the very real costs involved in requesting copies and waiting for their arrival, and on the other end, of staff handling the request and the associated mailing costs. If those were added up, a true cost of requesting and supplying a reprint might be surprising, and balance options for paying for single copies of a needed article online.
Authors can legally distribute their paid-for reprint copies to anyone they choose, but many copyright agreements prohibit other ways for the author to supply print copies.
Searches in PubMed can be very easily limited to retrieval of articles which are available at no cost; a search of oaister, which indexes more than 700 institutional repositories, can also be very productive.
Systematic reviews done for Cochrane or other publications with NIH funding are eligible for submission to the PMC author manuscript archive, but there do not seem to be any there (yet).
Pam Sieving
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