POST EDITED 12/20/2015 @ 17:42 CT.
If you are interested in reading Smith & Jacobi, 2015 (Phormingochilus and related Ornithoctoninae revision) I have now updated The Tarantula Bibliography to include a link to download a PDF of the article.
I still encourage all of you to become members of the BTS and get the Journal in its entirety and access to previous issues online, but you can get this one free.
I originally considered it a "gift" to my readership, but since I was made aware that the World Spider Catalog is already making it available (they [and others] don't really understand what copyright is all about) I have added it to my site. At least I'm the co-author and entitled to share it ;).
Here's the link
MJ
PS: As I saw one reader's comment about the WSC having our paper listed as "Upcoming" I went to take a look. There I saw something very coincidental. It seems Gunter Schmidt, a very old man who prolifically publishes sloppy papers in his friend's self-published magazine, has a new paper on the synonymy of Haplopelma and Melopoeus, something we discuss in our own paper. This is old news, of course, but I would imagine Volker von Wirth is really pulling his hair out now. We've just placed all Haplopelma in Cyriopagopus and note that the Myanmar and Thailand material will likely be restored to Melopoeus by future workers (VVW?). However, there is an English abstract for Schmidt's paper and the title is obvious - he is stating that Haplopelma and Melopoeus are not synonymous. Interesting ... No, we are not all hired by Dymo to sell more label tape ;)
6 comments:
Thanks for the link, Glad to see you enjoyed the vacation. The Instagram pics were great.
Your readership should be aware they don't have to go through you to get this article. It is freely available to anyone at the World Spider Catalog at http://wsc.nmbe.ch/
Sign up for an account and click on "Upcoming" from the "Latest references included" heading on the homepage.
Normally people request articles from authors not from databases. I submitted it to the WSC; they are a "middle man" ;). However, I am also going to add it to my Tarantula Bibliography, which is updated much more frequently than the WSC, so there will also be a link there.
I HAVE NOW ADDED THE PDF DOWNLOAD LINK TO THE TARANTULA BIBLIOGRAPHY so here it is:
http://www.exoticfauna.com/tarantulabibliography/pdf/Smith_Jacobi_2015_Phormingochilus.pdf
The reason I posted my comment was because your original blog post stated in so many words that you would pick and choose who you would be e-mailing the article to if asked. I am quite aware that people would normally request an article from the author(s) but if you were going to pick and choose which request to reply to than I felt it is important for your readers to know there is a source that is not selective.
I am a big supporter of open access scientific journals as they allow access to the work of researchers the world over without regard to factors such as socioeconomic status. Due to my personal opinions on the topic of information sharing, your post here struck a nerve with me because as the junior author of a scientific paper, you came off as someone who was not willing to freely share the work you took a part in. Now that I see you have made the article accessible to everyone, this comment doesn't much apply anymore but I feel like you should know the reasons why I provided a means to by pass the co-author when seeking a copy of this paper.
dangit....lol....time to buy more label tape....Mike is secretly in cahoots with the label makers no matter what he said...heh heh
thanx for the article
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