I was trying to get ready for this morning's lecture on statistical phylogeography, and I was planning to use this paper as part of my lecture.
The last time I taught this course (in 2006), I had a link to the paper that worked like a charm using a digital object identifier (DOI). DOIs are supposed to provide a stable link to electronic objects, like published journal articles. Well, when I clicked on the link this morning it didn't work. That's bad. It should still be working, even two years later, and even though Blackwell (the original publisher) has been acquired by Wiley. This is also probably the second or third time this semester I've had this problem.
But it gets worse.
The last time I taught this course (in 2006), I had a link to the paper that worked like a charm using a digital object identifier (DOI). DOIs are supposed to provide a stable link to electronic objects, like published journal articles. Well, when I clicked on the link this morning it didn't work. That's bad. It should still be working, even two years later, and even though Blackwell (the original publisher) has been acquired by Wiley. This is also probably the second or third time this semester I've had this problem.
But it gets worse.
Since I really needed to look at the article, and I didn't have a copy of my own handy, I went over to Google Scholar and found one on-line (although not at the Wiley-Blackwell site). But I still wanted to fix the link so my students could find it to. So I went to PubMed, did a search and found this:
That's looking pretty promising. Notice the "FULL TEXT AVAILABLE ONLINE" button? I clicked on it and guess what I found.
But wait. I'm not done yet. I went straight to the Molecular Ecology website and I find this:
Come on guys! You're supposed to be professionals. That's why the UConn library is paying you tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in subscription fees for access to your journals. We're supposed to be able to find the papers you've published in them. Look at those page numbers again and compare them to the Maddison & Knowles page numbers. Do you see anything missing from that table of contents? If the Maddison & Knowles paper exists in your on-line holdings, I can't find it. It shouldn't be this difficult.
That's looking pretty promising. Notice the "FULL TEXT AVAILABLE ONLINE" button? I clicked on it and guess what I found.
But wait. I'm not done yet. I went straight to the Molecular Ecology website and I find this:
Come on guys! You're supposed to be professionals. That's why the UConn library is paying you tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in subscription fees for access to your journals. We're supposed to be able to find the papers you've published in them. Look at those page numbers again and compare them to the Maddison & Knowles page numbers. Do you see anything missing from that table of contents? If the Maddison & Knowles paper exists in your on-line holdings, I can't find it. It shouldn't be this difficult.
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