R.K., Google Scholar can be searched free by anyone with internet access. My search just now, using prothonotary warbler as the search term, yielded a very long list of publications. Some of them concern nesting and reproductive biology of the Prothonotary Warbler. The abstracts and in some cases citations can be viewed by selecting the article. For some, even full text is accessible in that way.
Your local library can obtain some reports by interlibrary loan. There may be a small fee for photocopying, and if the library orders numerous reports from a given journal, it will be notified that it is required by copyright law to subscribe for future access to the same journal via interlibrary loan. But few public libraries (except very large ones) are going to be ordering many reports via interlibrary loan from _The Wilson Bulletin_ for example. Good luck with your search for information. So far as Wayne's comments concerning access to published material, and the role of the internet age in bringing about restricted access, he is correct of course. As for myself, though I am much less active now than in the past, having retired, I will provide a reprint or a photocopy of any article I've authored to anyone who requests it. SASE is appreciated. And of course, some authors, where they can given copyright restrictions, have their publications accessible via pdf. Academic organizations, like ESA, do have to recoup expenses, and in general are not profitable. For profit presses like Elsevier, which publishes several ecology journals, are another matter. My wife is a university library director. She struggles to maintain both journal and database subscriptions, due to draconian budget difficulties partly caused by a government that is determined to strangle public and higher education in this state. And I have had to cut back my subscriptions to journals like those published by ESA as costs have escalated for those. David McNeely > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "R K" <podocop...@yahoo.com> > To: <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:46 AM > Subject: [ECOLOG-L] clarification on prothonotary article request > > > I appreciate the responses I've received already, but most of them have > involved the Cornell BNA, which unfortunately is locked behind a paywall. > > To clarify, I would appreciate citations for recent references involving > prothonotary ecology and behavior. I don't have database access and can't > search directly for references, but I can work with citations if someone is > kind enough to provide them. > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1432 / Virus Database: 3209/6038 - Release Date: 07/31/13 -- David McNeely
