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To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: PDF FRENZY
From: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 08:23:13 +0000
Reply-to: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

Just a quick note.

Following my offerings of PDFs to interested parties, I have 
been astounded to get a whopping 33 requests (if I haven't 
dealt with you yet I will do so later today). This suggests 
not so much that people are really interested in obscure 
English Lower Cretaceous theropods, but that PDFs are a 
superb, largely hassle-free way of getting published papers 
out to anyone that wants them. This is pretty obvious but 
what is less obvious is that those who (1) publish papers 
and (2) have these papers available in PDF form should 
advertise this and thereby get their research more widely 
disseminated.

Journals that have on-line versions generally provide free 
access (for the volume concerned at least) to authors of 
included papers.

-- 
Darren Naish
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Portsmouth UK, PO1 3QL

email: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
tel: 023 92846045