I did google the article twice:
1) first time with Google Scholar which pointed me to INIST: a French based
electronic DD service available for a fee;
2) second time with Google: it pointed me to a free PDF copy available from
www.academica.edu provided that I registered with the service, which I did
without really understanding what it is and why and how it happens that it
distributes this for free. In short I acted as an unexperienced student
which doesn't want to know from where things come, provided that they are
freely and instantly available.
Conclusion:
1) I ended with a free copy of an article which in theory is not distributed
freely (it is published in a journal available through subscription, not an
open access journal);
2) I was confirmed again that Google is very good for retrieving an article
when you have the title, which means that it is good for a kind of "known
item search";
3) I also concluded that this only means that Google is good at the delivery
part of the bibliographic search process. But the discovery part is another
matter.
pierfranco
2011/5/26 Jason Etheridge <jason_at_esilibrary.com>
> > In the past Google would send me to sites acting as pay-walls for
> > stuff like this, so I was trying to skip all that by going through my
> > library (PINES -> Galileo -> EBSCO). A lot of hoops there.
>
> Some extra hoops involved me not finding a field for the "Accession
> Number" in the closest academic EBSCO database I could find, and
> having to search for a subset of the title rather than the whole thing
> (which didn't work). I really should have googled it. :-)
>
> -- Jason
>
Received on Thu May 26 2011 - 08:00:00 EDT