A suggestion to someone here who wants to help us stay current on new published papers. Go to www.scholar.google.com and make a search...say 'equine hoof'. You can customize to get more current stuff. At the bottom of the page or on the left, click where it says ' create an alert'. Thereafter, when a new scientific paper is published using those keywords, you will receive an email with a link to the abstract. Then you can post them here, and let us all benefit. Hands for volunteers?
That is all good however you need to be part of a scientific institution to be able to view the majority of papers unless you just want the abstracts. I'm lucky enough to be registered under the Myerscough school of farriery science as part of the BSc course. Do may folks pay cash to view the papers?
Marc, Yes! IMO, the monopoly on the dissemination of information by the publishing companies is one big reason that so much hogwash prevails. We are asked to pay up to $35 for one article! I used to drive to a city with a university, get a motel room and spend all day copying papers to read later. One can ask the author for a copy, but those requests are often dismissed unless one knows the author. When I was helping out academics, I could get them to email me full text papers, but it is against copyright laws to distribute them freely. I do think that abstracts are better than nothing. Since we have you and perhaps some others that can actually acquire and read full text journal articles, if anyone runs across one that appears really interesting, you could give us the more interesting bits behind the abstract? I do believe that the discussion of the scientific merits of papers involving horse feet would be helpful to those seeking reliable information. Katy
Katy I like Marc have access to papers If you ever want to pm me for any thing feel free but I am not happy to post papers here without the authors permission.
So will someone post abstracts and give us details when needed? Is anyone interested in seeing the current scientific literature in farrier science?
