bilbioteca on-line sobre oribátidos!

[Pablo A. Martínez]

Hola a todos,
Roy Norton y Valerie Behan-Pelletier han tomado una iniciativa genial
para los oribatólogos (y afines): poner on-line toda la bibliografía
posible sobre ese grupo. Para eso, invitan a los interesados a
consultar la nueva biblioteca y a aportar el material que puedan (por
mi parte, les prometí escanear y mandarles los trabajos que tengo de
Bischoff y de Baranek). Al final de este mensaje verán la carta de
invitación que mandaron ellos.
Como la bilbioteca está alojada en Google y parece que no puede
abrirse desde cualquier dirección, si tienen una dirección de gmail
pueden mandarsela a Roy (rano...@esf.edu) y pedirle que les mande el
acceso. Pueden decirle que yo les pasé el dato, si quieren.
Lo único que me advirtió es lo siguiente:

> It is OK to invite other scientists, but they must be aware that it is not
> a public site, and that they should not transfer these files to a public
> site.
> Cheers
> Roy

Asi que hay que tener solo la precaución de no subir los papers a
ningun sitio público.
Solo para elegidos!
Ya han cargado hasta la letra D, y siguen trabajando.

Que lo disfruten!

Saludos,

Pablo

Dear Colleague,
A principal impediment to the study of oribatid mites is access to the
relevant literature. While electronic copies of recent papers in many
publications are relatively easy to find, some journals remain offline
and, despite the value of archival sources (e.g., JStore, Biodiversity
Heritage Library), older papers in most journals remain difficult to
obtain.
Val Behan-Pelletier and I invite you to share an online resource
relating to our favorite animals. With much help, from many people,
we have been compiling PDF files of journal articles that relate to
oribatid mites in a direct way, regardless of subject (systematics,
genetics, morphology, biology/ecology, etc.). After some
experimentation, we chose GoogleDocs to house this library. It has
the advantages of being low cost and being relatively easy to maintain
and use (including having excellent search capabilities).
This will not be a public site, since a significant number of items
cannot be posted legally in this way. Instead, it will be a private
resource, shared among a small number of colleagues for their personal
use; i.e., access is by invitation only. By accepting our invitation
you would be – in effect – promising not to make this library public
yourself. However, we would be happy to extend an invitation to others
whom you might identify, particularly your students, as they represent
the future of “oribatology“.
It will be some weeks or months before our entire collection is
available, since we are trying to standardize filenames to some
degree. The first set will include papers by (first) authors whose
names begin with A or B, and others will be uploaded as they are
finished. The files range greatly in quality, from modern,
professionally produced PDFs to poor scans of photocopies that were
themselves barely readable. Some have embedded Optical Character
Reading (OCR), but many do not.
All of our papers relating to oribatid mites will be included, as well
as those of several generous colleagues, including Gerd Alberti,
Sándor Mahunka and Heinz Schatz. However, you will quickly see that,
overall, the collection is woefully incomplete…. despite including
approximately 3000 files, it is only a beginning. We hope that you
will see the value of this resource, and help us by contributing your
own papers both old and new. We also welcome any missing papers of
other authors, and improved versions of any that are already present.
Particularly useful are PDF files with OCR, as the content becomes
visible to GoogleDocs’ search engine.*
GoogleDocs is constrained, in that only one person can operate such a
document collection, so the invitation will come from Roy. But papers
can be sent to either of us. We also welcome other digital resources
that can be posted in this way (publication lists, unpublished
catalogs, etc).
With best wishes,

Roy Norton and Val Behan-Pelletier
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*If you have no experience, we recommend scanning papers at 600 dpi in
Black&White, then creating a PDF file with Adobe Acrobat or similar
program. Pages with photographs can be scanned separately in gray-
scale or color (300-400 dpi), and then inserted. An important step is
to run the OCR procedure in Adobe Acrobat, which also greatly reduces
the file size of scanned documents. If you do not have the software
need to create a PDF, we would be happy to do it for you. Just send
the pages as a series of scanned image files (JPG).