Re: Yet More Nicholls vs Morgan
Paul J. Gans (gans@scholar.chem.nyu.edu)
14 Jan 1995 03:01:07 GMT
Phil. Felton (felton@phoenix.princeton.edu) wrote:
: In article <3eu08r$1u@rebecca.albany.edu>, pn8886@csc.albany.edu (Phil
: Nicholls) wrote:
: > I try not to use reprints
: > for this very reason -- going to the journals is a good way to stumble
: > across other interesting materials.
: >
: >
:
: I frequently come across errors in the bibliographies of papers which I
: review but my impression is that this is an area which doesn't get reviewed
: as carefully because unless you know the paper personally it takes a lot
: of work to check out all the references.
Phil Nicholls makes an excellent point. I *sometimes* check
references, but often against a citation of that paper in *my*
collection of reprints. I'm going to stop doing that.
---- Paul J. Gans [gans@scholar.chem.nyu.edu]
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