Ok, Sparky. I came up with another question.

How do I track down a paper presented at a conference?

If it's not too old, it may be posted on the conference web site. Was it an annual conference of some group? If so, use them in as an author in a union catalog like World Cat or RLIN, maybe adding a keyword of "annual" or "proceedings". That will sometimes turn up the serial entry. If there's not an overarching group, you can try the author of the paper in one of those big databases, sometimes his/her home institution will add it to the collection, or someone will donate it to a library somewhere.

If you can find it, email me the info that you have and I can try and come up with it.

Hmm. Now it's shifted from impulse buy to mandate. I can handle that.

Consider it a decree, if you will.

Bwah! It's in two libraries...an Australian and a British. Love trying to track this shit down sometimes.

vw, you might want to double check in the appropriate index databases -- a conference paper might very well have ended up in a peer reviewed journal under a slightly different title.

Yeah, I've looked under the author's name...not finding it. Just e-mailed you. Lucky you!

Okay, I got it. Let me poke the databases and see if the paper falls out.

You're the bestest EVAH!

(I'm just having a little tiff with ILL here today. They keep sending me to the ERIC database where another article is not full-text linked and insisting that it is.)

Jesus H. Christ on a crutch.

Remember the severe jaw pain from last night that made me think I was having a heart attack?

Remember how I'm taking an antibiotic for an ear infection?

Remember how I edit for a pharmacy journal?

Guess what a common side effect is of the antibiotic I'm taking. C'mon, guess. It rhymes with "Bahrain." Jesus H. Christ. I give up. My ear can get better on its own. No more antibiotics for Teppy.

(Also, my jaw is aching horribly right now, which is what prompted the research. I'm the anatomical equivalent of a broken-down Chevy Nova on the side of the highway.)

vw, I didn't get any love from the databases -- I just see the same British and Australian libraries. I'd ask your ILL folks, and I would also email the author, explaining that you're a student from far, far away and the ILL folks have not been able to get you a copy (she doesn't have to know it's because you haven't asked, yet).