1.The person requesting the article has to give full bibliographic details. If it is incomplete, fellow professionals may not spend time bothering about some other institution's request. 2.They should become members of organizations like DELNET and ask for DDS services and pay the charges 3. Posting such requests in the forum may not be a good idea even from copywrite point of view Gayathri Sen PESIT --- On Thu, 6/2/11, Gireesh Kumar T K wrote: From: Gireesh Kumar T K Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Article: Is it fair? To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 12:22 PM 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. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.