The full thread was clipped, so I'm not sure if anyone else has suggested this, but SORA provides search and free access to many bird journal articles:
http://sora.unm.edu/ -Ed Edward J. Laurent, PhD Executive Director Connecting Conservation http://connectingconservation.org Lead Administrator and Designer https://griffingroups.com On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:59 AM, David L. McNeely <[email protected]> wrote: > R.K., Google Scholar can be searched free by anyone with internet access. My > search just now, using prothonotary warbler as the search term, yielded a > very long list of publications. Some of them concern nesting and > reproductive biology of the Prothonotary Warbler. The abstracts and in some > cases citations can be viewed by selecting the article. For some, even full > text is accessible in that way. > > Your local library can obtain some reports by interlibrary loan. There may > be a small fee for photocopying, and if the library orders numerous reports > from a given journal, it will be notified that it is required by copyright > law to subscribe for future access to the same journal via interlibrary loan. > But few public libraries (except very large ones) are going to be ordering > many reports via interlibrary loan from _The Wilson Bulletin_ for example. > > Good luck with your search for information. > > So far as Wayne's comments concerning access to published material, and the > role of the internet age in bringing about restricted access, he is correct > of course. As for myself, though I am much less active now than in the past, > having retired, I will provide a reprint or a photocopy of any article I've > authored to anyone who requests it. SASE is appreciated. And of course, > some authors, where they can given copyright restrictions, have their > publications accessible via pdf. > > Academic organizations, like ESA, do have to recoup expenses, and in general > are not profitable. For profit presses like Elsevier, which publishes > several ecology journals, are another matter. > > My wife is a university library director. She struggles to maintain both > journal and database subscriptions, due to draconian budget difficulties > partly caused by a government that is determined to strangle public and > higher education in this state. And I have had to cut back my subscriptions > to journals like those published by ESA as costs have escalated for those. > > David McNeely > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "R K" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:46 AM >> Subject: [ECOLOG-L] clarification on prothonotary article request >> >> >> I appreciate the responses I've received already, but most of them have >> involved the Cornell BNA, which unfortunately is locked behind a paywall. >> >> To clarify, I would appreciate citations for recent references involving >> prothonotary ecology and behavior. I don't have database access and can't >> search directly for references, but I can work with citations if someone is >> kind enough to provide them. >> >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1432 / Virus Database: 3209/6038 - Release Date: 07/31/13 > > -- > David McNeely
