How does he do a journal search? Go to the journal home page? Sit at a terminal in the library and use a subscription aggregator? Use Web of Science?
Or use Google, like pretty much everyone I know. That's how I find stuff, and some of it turns out to be in repositories.
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Les
On 1 Jun 2010, at 17:12, Richard Rankin wrote:
> I was at a meeting this afternoon promoting the population of our IR and an academic commented that he would not go to an IR directly for information.
> Rather he would do a journal search.
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> Also commented that on discussion with his colleagues non of them could recollect doing a search that led them to an IR to obtain information on published works.
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> He then asked who are the people who use IRs as sources of information?
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> Ricky
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