Re: [Aroid-l] Wikipedia`s falsehoods

From: <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2009.02.04 at 11:01:17(19047) Dear All, Between what Steve Lucas has suggested, then the great information which Jason provides (below), I THINK we have covered about as many bases we can concerning locating good information on aroids (and eliminating using Wikipedia).  Jason does bring up a good point--- where do we find information on some of the more obscure genera on which there are limited or NO publications!?!   Allow me to say that this forum (aroid-l) then provides an INVALUABLE service, as it has contact with MOST of the world experts on aroids or has a member who reads this forum, who can usually contact the person who has the knowledg.  Most times when a request has been submitted, there has been SOMEONE who reads the request and is able to eventually supply the information being sought! The Best, and Good Growing. Julius Boos WPB, FLORIDA > From: mossytrail@hctc.com HTML +More > To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com > Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:14:12 -0800 > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Wikipedia`s falsehoods > > If you have access to a university computer system, they may > be subscribed to JSTOR, Biological Abstracts, or some > similar database. These will take you to peer-reviewed > articles. JSTOR is especially useful, because every article > it references is scanned in its entirety in the database -- > you can read it righ on your monitor. > > Of course, this necessitates that something BE published on > the taxon in question. For some obscure taxa, there is > nothing out there. Another drawback to JSTOR is that is you > search the full-text of the articles, you may get articles > in which your search term appears only in the "works cited," > as part of the title of another article you probably already > read. > > Jason Hernandez > Naturalist-at-Large > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:37:45 -0800 (PST) > > From: "E.Vincent Morano" <ironious2@yahoo.com> > > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Wikipedia`s falsehoods > > To: Discussion of aroids <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com> > > Message-ID: <547443.98273.qm@web63403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > any idea's on where to find an unbiased source? > > > > --- On Sat, 1/31/09, ju-bo@msn.com <ju-bo@msn.com> wrote: > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --_ce26164b-4ef8-4db0-a7ee-759e3855cb53_----==============B61370617506130804=

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