Good questions. I think I found a good home for this article at a journal called _Discovery and Collaboration_ . Used to be BMC and biomed focused, but has since been picked up by u of Illinois library. FREE! And multidisciplinary. And indexed in PubMed and deposited in PubMed Central. http://www.uic.edu/htbin...
- Heather Piwowar
This can work well but I find students are reluctant to contact authors.
- Jean-Claude Bradley
I think the important things here is the difference in sharing ethos in developing countries vs. US/EU. I used to never hear back from people via email, or if I did it took 2 weeks. The References Wanted Room FTW!
- Mr. Gunn