Request for Article: Is it fair?
Dear Sir/Madam/Professional friends This has reference to some of the recently published posts in LISFORUM with a topic "Request for Article", for their requirement of full text journal articles. In most of the requirements it is found that the bibliographic details given by the requester is deficient to find out even the source of the article and moreover it is a time-consuming process. And also seen that some of our professional friends are not even mentioned the title of the journal or year of publication/vol.No/Issues No/ number of pages etc etc. Is it a good practice to ask a person to do complete search and find out the details and then download the article even if we desire to help our friends? In my personal view, it would be very easy and time saving to find out the softcopy (fulltext) of the article (since we need to find out whether we have the full text access or not) if the requester could give the full text link of the source article. or the URL which directs to the publishers platform. With Regards Gireesh Kumar TK ARC International Hyderabad http://www.arci.res.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
In my view lazy librarians should not be helped.
Always Resorting to get free copies utilizing someone else's paid
subscription may be tolerated / entertained only in rarest of rare cases.
Else one should cultivate the habit of paying for information. Yes I
understand we are a poor country and can not afford the high prices. But
then an intelligent librarian can locate many alternate sources for same
article and get it at least cost. Trying to get everything free, just for
the cost of an email should be discouraged. Fellow librarians can help
locating alternate sources or in checking bibliographic details but not do
all the work of getting and emailing full text just for the asking.
Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony Secunderabad 500015 Ph
040-27846631 / 9490804278.My blog:
http://vyasa-kaaranam-ketkadey.blogspot.com/
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Gireesh Kumar T K
Dear Sir/Madam/Professional friends This has reference to some of the recently published posts in LISFORUM with a topic "Request for Article", for their requirement of full text journal articles. In most of the requirements it is found that the bibliographic details given by the requester is deficient to find out even the source of the article and moreover it is a time-consuming process. And also seen that some of our professional friends are not even mentioned the title of the journal or year of publication/vol.No/Issues No/ number of pages etc etc.
Is it a good practice to ask a person to do complete search and find out the details and then download the article even if we desire to help our friends?
In my personal view, it would be very easy and time saving to find out the softcopy (fulltext) of the article (since we need to find out whether we have the full text access or not) if the requester could give the full text link of the source article. or the URL which directs to the publishers platform.
With Regards Gireesh Kumar TK ARC International Hyderabad http://www.arci.res.in
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