Places to find/order papers

[Fabiano]

Hi all,

Very often many of us need to find some papers to use as base methods or use some other details like sample preparation, mobile phase or data from MS.
For those ones in industry (like me) or who are away from college is more complicated.

I sugest that we can exchange websites with this service of find and send papers to us.

For those who read in portuguese ( and also spannish, since they are very similar) my sugestion is:

Ibict.br - it's associated with a brazilian government agency. The database include almost all public colleges and they send the old papers in PDF by Email. it´s much more cheaper than buy the paper from publisher.
http://www.ibict.br/secao.php?cat=COMUT

Any other sugestion is welcome.

Fabiano

[zokitano]

Hi Fabiano

If you want to find MS spectra of different organic compounds click on the following link:

Spectral Database for Organic Compounds:
http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi

On this website you can find also NMR, IR, Raman and ESR spectra of different organic molecules,

The entrance is FREE,

Best regards

[Kostas Petritis]

The cheapest way to get them is to contact one of the authors as it is legal for them to give copies of their publications by e-mail. I always try to reply the same day when I get a request...

[Fabiano]

Kostas,

For older papers this just don't work. I had to buy a paper from 2001 because I couldn't find any e-mail of author in internet. In other one from 2000 the author said that didn't have any electronic or hard copy any more.

[Kostas Petritis]

That is strange as now a lot of journal of interests have archieved all their papers in pdf. For example you can find on line the first volumes from Anal Chem and J of Chromatography...

But I agree with you that it won't work for everything...

[Uwe Neue]

Kostas' suggestion to contact the author is a very good one. The author is allowed to send out copies, and he is commonly very enthusiastic about this (somebody is really interested in the stuff that I wrote... wow...). Even if the primary e-mail address does not work any more, a bit of search may find the address of a coauthor.

There are exceptions, but I have nearly every paper where I was a coauthor on electronic file.