Article Request: Not a Professional Way to Approach through Forums
Dear Sir/Madam, Approaching for request for article in forum is not at all a healthy practice. We must not encourage professionals to post request for articles in LIS Forum except in a very rare cases. Once they get the required article through somebody they continue that practice without subscribing a particular journal or becoming a member of DELNET or other similar networks. Sometime they make it a habit of sending requests for sending 10 to 15 articles even more than that. Even though some of the articles available freely on the web through central repositories/institutional repositories they won't search and find. They rely somebody for articles. We can add many things but we must ask them to find articles on their own by sending a article request for the original authors of papers or purchasing through online database vendors or becoming partners with ILL service providers. ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
I am fully agreed with Vasantha Raju N. There are number of articles
available freely. But library professionals are too lazy to search/ find
those. It is also possible that they are not knowing the process to find
out free available articles. They could even find in Google Scholar, and
other available sites providing free articles services. Yes, you are right
they want the ready made one. We should not encourage them by appending
them the articles. But we could tell them or give them the web address
where the article/s may be seen and may get downloaded.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Vasanth
Dear Sir/Madam, Approaching for request for article in forum is not at all a healthy practice. We must not encourage professionals to post request for articles in LIS Forum except in a very rare cases. Once they get the required article through somebody they continue that practice without subscribing a particular journal or becoming a member of DELNET or other similar networks. Sometime they make it a habit of sending requests for sending 10 to 15 articles even more than that. Even though some of the articles available freely on the web through central repositories/institutional repositories they won't search and find. They rely somebody for articles. We can add many things but we must ask them to find articles on their own by sending a article request for the original authors of papers or purchasing through online database vendors or becoming partners with ILL service providers. ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Dear Vasantha Raju N
Many colleagues have already written on this subject but it has no effect.
It seems that people asking articles through this approach are not library
professionals. There is no harm in getting a document from other library on
ILL, but the way demand is made is not correct. The worst is that this has
been whole heartily supported by LIS Forum. Forum should not support
this methodology of ILL. We should devise a method for this so
that genuine reader does not suffer. Let LIS Forum take a lead and devise a
way to get out of this with the help and suggestions from experienced
professionals. This will be a novel way not only for the profession but for
readers too.
With reagards
*Dr Anil K Tyagi*
Scientist 'G'
DESIDOC, DRDO
Delhi-110054
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Vasanth
Dear Sir/Madam, Approaching for request for article in forum is not at all a healthy practice. We must not encourage professionals to post request for articles in LIS Forum except in a very rare cases. Once they get the required article through somebody they continue that practice without subscribing a particular journal or becoming a member of DELNET or other similar networks. Sometime they make it a habit of sending requests for sending 10 to 15 articles even more than that. Even though some of the articles available freely on the web through central repositories/institutional repositories they won't search and find. They rely somebody for articles. We can add many things but we must ask them to find articles on their own by sending a article request for the original authors of papers or purchasing through online database vendors or becoming partners with ILL service providers. ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Agree, but LIS forum is "we people". It is not a separate entity with few people. We need to collectively agree to do something It is true that many people ask without having tried. But rather than complain about it, we need to go on educating them, and also make a set of guidelines (Manjunath from TAPMI made a good beginning) and ensure that they are followed We cannot expect the moderator alone to do wonders, volunteers should help the moderator to see that guidelines are followed Vasumathi Sriganesh QMed Knowledge Foundation (Trust - Reg No: E-24663) A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099 Tel: 91-22-40054474 Mob: +919867292230 Web: www.qmed.org.in http://www.qmedkf.org.in/ www.indianmedicalsites.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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