Monday 5 March 2012

Invisible Reference on Pubmed?

From: Jacob Keller
Date: 7 February 2012 21:02


Dear CCP4BB,

this is perhaps my most egregious off-topic post, but can anyone
explain why the following reference is not findable in PubMed? I can
get it from the ACS website, but not on PubMed or elsewhere. The
journal is on PubMed--is it perhaps because it's funded by ExxonMobil?
Very strange...

Jacob


Article
A Study of the Separation Principle in Size Exclusion Chromatography
AbstractFull Text HTMLHi-Res PDF[140 KB]PDF w/ Links[240
KB]FiguresCiting Articles
Thomas Sun*
Baytown Polymers Center, ExxonMobil Chemical Company, 5200 Bayway Dr.,
Baytown, Texas 77520-2101
Ronald R. Chance, William W. Graessley,† and David J. Lohse
Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering,
Annandale, New Jersey 08801
Macromolecules, 2004, 37 (11), pp 4304–4312
DOI: 10.1021/ma030586k
Publication Date (Web): April 29, 2004
Copyright © 2004 American Chemical Society

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Jacob Pearson Keller

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From: Matthew Franklin


Hi Jacob -

PubMed isn't universal - its goal is to cover the biomedical literature, so articles on the margins, like organic chemistry, materials science (even crystallography!) aren't fully covered.  If you look at PubMed's total coverage of the journal Macromolecules, you'll see that it's extremely patchy: lots of articles from 1977, then almost nothing until a whole fleet of articles in 1998, then almost nothing again until 2007.  Your article must have fallen into one of these coverage holes.

Either that, or it's THE MAN suppressing the research needed to cure cancer and the common cold, and build a car that runs on water...

:)

- Matt

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Matthew Franklin, Ph. D.

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From: Jacob Keller

Well, perhaps it is because size exclusion chromatography is used so
little in the life sciences؟, and who really cares how it works
anyway?؟

JPK

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From: John Newitt


This looks like one of those journals not routinely indexed by the NLM. There are some issues in Medline, but not all. I only found one article from 2004.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/365316

John

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