Well, about the above, my comments are as follows:
Courtesy Issue
I consider myself lucky if they add the lines "how are you?" and/or "Thank you!" - because most of the time I get the e-mails like a special delivary orders "I need the following journal papers which is necessary to do my research with Dr . XXXX sir: and he asked to send them as quickly as possible", while the Subject line contains "Urgent" or "Very Important", or if I am lucky, I get "Help junior brother in ISRT".
Acknowledgement Issue
When I send somebody something, I really appreciate to know if what I sent is viewable or in some particular instances, whether that one is the right one. If none is the case, a simple "Thanks" would suffice the whole ordering business (as far as I remember, I used to do that).
Spelling Issue
When writing the names of articles, if the names are wrong, the way I search, it takes way too much time to find the correct one, considering the fact that the correct names pop up in one click in my Library cateloging system! While copy - pasting the whole biblography, or some times typing, its understandable if there is some mistakes. But its not at all appreciable if the person requesting the paper does not even take time to correct it (possibly the reason is that they are so busy that they are all in such a rush, and we are spending our futile moments and leisure times, what better things are we doing rather than correcting some silly mistakes like these?)
Learn how to search
Most people are not aware how to use google. They just try-in some key words and go through all the hits (at least first few pages before they give up), which is not the way to search at all. For example, if you are trying to find something related to R tutorials of CoxPH model residuals, if u try in "residual", there are 29,700,000 hits, for "cox proportional residual R coxph filetype:pdf" it gets more narrow down to 23,100 hits and so on. Please look in Google search options and tips for more detailed options to learn how to search efficiently.
The Burning Question
To be honest "been there, done that". Therefore, I really don't mind sending the requested journal papers (in some instances, I did way more than that), but the fact is, is it really worth? Does anybody really reads what we are sending? I usually get same people asking for several papers, all from different topics each time. What does that really mean? How much research are they doing? If the abstruct is all that is needed, I believe, most of the abstructs can be found free if someone can search properly. But then again, I am just the delivary boy, I don't get to ask!
Read what you have in your hand at first!
Well, about the above, my comments are as follows:
Courtesy Issue
I consider myself lucky if they add the lines "how are you?" and/or "Thank you!" - because most of the time I get the e-mails like a special delivary orders "I need the following journal papers which is necessary to do my research with Dr . XXXX sir: and he asked to send them as quickly as possible", while the Subject line contains "Urgent" or "Very Important", or if I am lucky, I get "Help junior brother in ISRT".
Acknowledgement Issue
When I send somebody something, I really appreciate to know if what I sent is viewable or in some particular instances, whether that one is the right one. If none is the case, a simple "Thanks" would suffice the whole ordering business (as far as I remember, I used to do that).
Spelling Issue
When writing the names of articles, if the names are wrong, the way I search, it takes way too much time to find the correct one, considering the fact that the correct names pop up in one click in my Library cateloging system! While copy - pasting the whole biblography, or some times typing, its understandable if there is some mistakes. But its not at all appreciable if the person requesting the paper does not even take time to correct it (possibly the reason is that they are so busy that they are all in such a rush, and we are spending our futile moments and leisure times, what better things are we doing rather than correcting some silly mistakes like these?)
Learn how to search
Most people are not aware how to use google. They just try-in some key words and go through all the hits (at least first few pages before they give up), which is not the way to search at all. For example, if you are trying to find something related to R tutorials of CoxPH model residuals, if u try in "residual", there are 29,700,000 hits, for "cox proportional residual R coxph filetype:pdf" it gets more narrow down to 23,100 hits and so on. Please look in Google search options and tips for more detailed options to learn how to search efficiently.
The Burning Question
To be honest "been there, done that". Therefore, I really don't mind sending the requested journal papers (in some instances, I did way more than that), but the fact is, is it really worth? Does anybody really reads what we are sending? I usually get same people asking for several papers, all from different topics each time. What does that really mean? How much research are they doing? If the abstruct is all that is needed, I believe, most of the abstructs can be found free if someone can search properly. But then again, I am just the delivary boy, I don't get to ask!