Help >> Frequently
asked questions
1. Why
don't the links to articles, abstracts, or pdfs work?
2. I
can access articles from campus, but not at home. Why?
3. Why
don't you use accented characters (such as é,ñ,
or ü) on your site?
4. Your website is fantastic. Who built it?
1.
Why don't the links to articles, abstracts, or pdfs work?
The most likely
reason is that your institution does not subscribe to the journal
in question. Alternatively, your insitution may have access to the journal in question but not the particular database we use. If you are sure that they do, look at #2 below.
2.
I can access articles from campus, but not at home. Why?
If you are
using a different Internet Service Provider at home, the journal
website will not recognize your institutional identity. Check
with your institution's information technology services department.
You may be able to dial into an institutional modem pool, or
they may have a program that allows you to establish a secure
tunnel to your institutional account (which you typically use
if you have high-speed internet service).
3.
Why don't you use accented characters (such as é,ñ,
or ü) on your site?
We've had to
balance the idiosyncrasies of Internet search engines with our
desire to correctly represent accented text. For example, Google considers "Ecología" and "Ecologia" to
be two different words. Some journals archive names with accented
text, others without. Given that most people in North America
do not know how to type accented characters, even if they want
to, we felt that most people would be conducting searches on
names without accented characters. We use accented characters
for the names of researchers and their institutions, at the top
of their research interest and publication statements. Otherwise,
we generally do not use them.
4. Your website is fantastic. Who built
it? No, really, it's great.
The original website was created by Jonathan Krieger, who maintained
it through December, 2005.
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