I need help getting a paper on estuaries!

March 11, 2006 9:04 AM

I need help getting access to a published paper on estuaries. My girlfriend needs it to work on a paper of hers. We've found everything else on various free sites, but this one we're having no luck. Since it's just one paper, I was hoping someone here was a subscriber to one of the sites it's at. (Specific details inside)

The paper is:
"Submerged aquatic vegetation in the mesohaline region of the Patuxent Estuary: past, present, and future status." R.M. Stankelis, M.D. Naylor, and W.R. Boynton. Estuaries. 2003. 26 (2A):186-195.

It looks like the official site it's at is: Estuariesandcoasts.org, but you need a login to access the full text.

Anyone a subscriber that could help out for this one report?

posted by inigo2 to science & nature (13 comments total)

This paper is for a school? The school has a library? Inter-library loan is available?
posted by orthogonality at 9:11 AM on March 11, 2006

Contact your local librarian (at your university, preferably). This is what they do.
posted by arco at 9:13 AM on March 11, 2006

The school has a library, but it's in a different city (she's a part time student at the DC campus of Hopkins). I've been trying to find it through the online library, but haven't had luck yet. Thought I'd try here, too.
posted by inigo2 at 9:41 AM on March 11, 2006

Have you tried calling the JHU library in Baltimore?
posted by arco at 9:50 AM on March 11, 2006

This may be a working paper version of the final published paper, I don't know. But working papers often don't differ that much from the final paper. At least, it will get everyone started.

See p. 91 of the text itself or p.103 in the pdf page count.
posted by bim at 9:55 AM on March 11, 2006

That's an awesome link bim, thanks!

I'd still appreciate if anyone has a copy of the final paper, but this is real real close (hopefully close enough for her).
posted by inigo2 at 10:22 AM on March 11, 2006

Being originally from Maryland, I want to see the waterways cleaned up. Everyone has been "down the shore."

And I LOVE oysters which have been having a hard time in recent years. :)
posted by bim at 10:29 AM on March 11, 2006

maybe you could email the first author, Bob Stankelis (RM Stankelis), asking for a pdf? I think the email address on this page is likely the same person:
http://www.nbnerr.org/contactus.htm
posted by tnai at 10:58 AM on March 11, 2006

Depending on how long you have before you need it, most scientific article authors will provide reprints of the article to those who ask.

You could try calling the institution the primary author works for and asking if they'll get you a reprint.
posted by gage at 11:10 AM on March 11, 2006

It doesn't look like JHU subscribes online to Estuaries.

If she's in DC proper, can she get to any of the following schools that subscribe to the paper version of the journal and just photocopy the required article?

GWU (last 5 years available)
Howard (1983-present available)
Library of Congress
National Academies, George E. Brown lib.
posted by nonane at 11:14 AM on March 11, 2006

Unfortunately, we needed it pretty quickly...
posted by inigo2 at 11:16 AM on March 11, 2006

From the login:
Access to ESTUARIES Online is provided under the terms of a license agreement with your institution for as long as their print subscription to ESTUARIES, the bimonthly journal of the Estuarine Research Federation, is kept current.

The terms of this license agreement prohibit the downloading and storage of articles on any other electronic media (CD-ROM or local server) for later retrieval and delivery. You are encouraged to post links to articles of interest to you and your students and colleagues on your personal and departmental web pages, or on reserve reading lists for your courses. As long as your institution's use of ESTUARIES Online is authorized, the links to the articles will work properly. Please report any problems with links to articles or with your access to ESTUARIES Online to your institution's librarian or contact the Managing Editor's Office, via e-mail, at [e-mail]. Thank you.

So, I consider you my student, and I posted a link on my personal web page. I don't know if it will work for you, give it a try and let me know.
posted by 445supermag at 3:13 PM on March 11, 2006

check your gmail.
posted by sanko at 3:54 PM on March 11, 2006