Petr Kuzmic wrote:
>For example, this monograph ...
>> Title: Technological and medical implications of metabolic
> control analysis / edited by Athel Cornish-Bowden and Marâia
> Luz Câardenas.
[ ... ]
>>... isn't available on the campus where I happen to be geographically
>located: University of Wisconsin - Madison, which is a giant institution
>with "Enzyme Institute" and personalities who [like it or not]
My impression is that some of them like it quite a lot, but maybe you mean
us not them!
>shaped
>enzyme research in the U.S. for decades. In fact, according to the
>WORLDCAT catalog, as of today (08/22/00) the book seems to be available
>only in a few libraries worldwide
>[ ... ]
This may be because it's relatively recently published, and I don't know
how quickly libraries order and catalogue new books. Of course, it would be
nice (for some of us more than others!) if the book were more widely
available. Maybe you could suggest it to your librarian? Meanwhile, you can
see the complete list of contents at
http://ir2lcb.cnrs-mrs.fr/~athel/kluwer.htm
>>Any chance that at least some of this material would be available
>online?
A little of it is (my own contributions, for example, accessible from the
URL above), and the original (not the published) form of Douglas Kell and
Pedro Mendes's discussion paper is at
http://gepasi.dbs.aber.ac.uk/dbk/mca99bio.htm
In addition, all of the abstracts are available at
http://ir2lcb.cnrs-mrs.fr/~athel/program.htm (again in the form they were
submitted originally, not necessarily as actually published).
>I understand that Kluwer is a commercial entity, so obviously
>they are in the business of *selling* this information. At the same
>time, purchasing the title for my personal library through a bookseller,
>just to get a feel for the developments in MCA, is not practical. These
>kinds of books tend to be very expensive (hardly ever purchased by
>individuals) and there are already too many other titles on my letter to
>Santa Claus.
I don't know if it still functions now that Plenum (together with its
contracts with NATO) has been bought by Kluwer and the prices increased by
around 300%, but in the past individual scientists could buy NATO volumes
for very reasonable prices.
athel
Athel Cornish-Bowden
athel at ibsm.cnrs-mrs.fr
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