I have decided to start posting when I want to read an article at home but cannot due to lack of access (even though I might have it at work). Today’s bummer is I wanted to read an article by Joel Sachs on “Resolving the first steps to multicellularity” but I could not get it because I do not have access to Trends in Ecology and Evolution at home. Bummer. Looks like it could be good.
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/04/welcome-second-best-in-scotland.htmlThankfully, my access extended to this Manuscript which is now with Jonathan.Graham aka, McDawg
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thanks … teaching a class today where I want to talk about the evolution of multicellularity … and if anyone else out there has some good OA material on this topic let me know … busy with kids this AM so don’t have much time to look around
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227 of them in PubMed Centralhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?term=evolution%20of%20multicellularity&search=Find%20Articles&db=pmc&cmd=search
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Blocked Access Bummer is a great idea. It so frustrating trying to get papers. I work at a research institute, not a university, and even they don’t have access to much of what I need.
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Jonathan, Scott — you might find the FriendFeed Refs Wanted room useful: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/references-wanted
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Like most university libraries, UC Davis does offer off-campus access to stuff that the library licenses.< HREF="http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/services/connect/" REL="nofollow">http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/services/connect/<>There really shouldn’t be hardly anything that you can access on campus that shouldn’t be able to access at home.
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JohnWell, in theory I might be able to set up these proxies. But in practice, I was using a back up computer on which it had never been set up. And when I have tried to set this up on my iPhone it did not seem to work and I use my iPhone a lot to surf the web at home
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Was it government funded research? If so, shame shame shame…
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Kevin It was a review paper so it is not government funded research per se. But it was government funded. I am generally most concerned about research being OA. However, the more reviews that are OA the better too.
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