Alex

I was thinking ...

I would not be so rigid because the economic crisis has forced many institutes to drop subscriptions to journals, researchers from developing countries may have trouble finding certain items,

we may decide to give support to those who have difficulties, but obviously not for lazy people

Dear Daniel,

this forum should not be a paper trading forum. I understand the need for resources at some point, however, I am not sure about copyright etc here, therefore I think we should not support it.

Anyway, the best solution for papers are 2 possibilities:

1. Contact your library, normally you can order full articles via the library even if the library has not subscribed to the journal. Nowadays an email or phone call can sort this quickly.

2. (the maybe easier way, not sure with your paper as is is published 15 years ago), contact the corresponding author, most of them are happy to send a pdf, specially if people are interested in their work. Always worked for me.

Fingers crossed,

Axel

PS: I like how you published this thread in the READ BEFORE POSTING...., next time read it ;-) and post in an appropriate topic, hehe, --> moved it to Topic "others"

Alex

I was thinking ...

I would not be so rigid because the economic crisis has forced many institutes to drop subscriptions to journals, researchers from developing countries may have trouble finding certain items,

we may decide to give support to those who have difficulties, but obviously not for lazy people

I certainly agree that every scientific institution should have an equal share of published data, and that institutions who cannot afford journal subscriptions should be supported.

However, asking for papers in forums is not really the right way to do this, there are rights of the journal, and the authors, we depend on the industries who publish and distribute science and unfortunately most of the time this service is not for free. Don't get me wrong, if my friends from other institutions cannot access a paper I also do find it for them. But all and all sending papers per e mail or so is not legal, and in the end might get the ResearchGate into trouble sooner or later if asking for papers in forums becomes common practice.

I would suggest to contact your librarian in case you cannot get a paper you need, most of the time the acquirement of articles is possible through Interlibrary Loan. Contacting the authors is also a good idea, it has always worked for me, too. If someone would ask you for a reprint, you would also send it to him, right?

I wish you a lot of luck!

basak