From Paul McDermott, Institute of Food Research
This is not necessarily about sloppiness, though I am sure it is a factor. Anyone who has tried to get hold of a list of articles will realise just how difficult it is to obtain some of them.
Establishments rarely hold old or obscure journals, and ordering copies can be costly, especially for cash-strapped institutions. Any serious attempt to overcome this problem would mean giving every scientist easy and inexpensive access to every article of every journal ever printed.
Norwich, Norfolk, UK
