Hello Terry et al, Here are some research resources available to everyone:
1. If you know a friendly doctor who works for a large medical entity, they probably have access to the medical search networks. Ask for a favor. 2. University and colleges will give you a user card if you make some sort of small donation or sign up for a special program. This is true of some medical school libraries also. There you might gain access to web search engines. Probably a charge, but you can submit your bibliog. to them and they will do the searches for you. 3. Most, if not all states have a system that will search all libraries in the state for hard-to-find books and transfer them temporarily to the one near you where you can check it out. The state libraries are heavy on technical stuff. 4. Every library--even small municipal ones---has a research department and trained research specialists. They are incredibly helpful here in Santa Fe New Mexico. They are grateful for your tasks because it justifies their job and most of them really like to help people find what they want to learn. Look in the phone book for the best-choice---usually biggest---and start making calls to The Research Department of a library. Probably by now, you can e-mail them with your wish list. I have found old and obscure books on metal electrolysis in this manner. You jailhouse lawyers may also avail yourselves of these resources. HINT: Take a law-related class or two at a local community college and get home-computer access to big-time legal databases. 5. There are free or cheap medical paper databases on the web such as Grateful Med. [Not all of the Deadheads became coke-snorting real estate agents]. Some of the specialized ones are very expensive. One technical journal on colloidal science is about 2K US per year. This process can be a lot of work and even more fun; it is like panning the data stream for info-nuggets. Thank you Terry, for your continuing useful and interesting input to this list. James-Osbourne: Holmes
