RE: Advice on breach

["William Loughner" <loughner@libris.libs.uga.edu>]

I recently became aware of a practice that some publishers seem to be
using to prevent widespread downloading.  At least that's the only reason
I can think of for it, because it was puzzling to me at first.

Periodical Abstracts Research II (ProQuest, B&H, UMI, whatever) has a few
full text journals in its stable (e.g., CQ Researcher) for which it
doesn't display full text on the web.  It faxes the article to you!  
Within 20 minutes after entering a fax phone number (and we all have fax
machines in public areas, don't we?) the article arrives.

A great way to regulate usage.  Though not too convenient for 
undergraduates.

William Loughner      
Physical Sciences Bibliographer
Science Library        
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602    USA

bill@loughner.com   706-542-0692
http://www.libs.uga.edu/science/science.html