Gates MA et al. Talc Use, Variants of the GSTM1, GSTT1, and NAT2 Genes, and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 17, 2436, September 1, 2008
Not many medical libraries will carry the journal ($1000 dollar subscription). A user could request an Inter Library Loan, or try to fathom out if they have access to the journal via an omnibus subscription service by way of a library they use (a challenge in itself sometimes).
The AACR says that articles are freely available after a year, and that the journal is part of HINARI. It also says that pay per view is $15 dollars for 24 hours, but elsewhere says that the cost is $35
The AACR journals have a web page and also a portal. The web page doesn't have a search engine but the portal does. A field delimited search for Gates, M 2008 produces a nil result.
AACR has a rather jaundiced view on open access:
Although AACR does not agree with the decision of some funding agencies to require deposit on government websites of articles that are already made available free to anyone online at the Publisher’s expense and that are maintained online in stable archives, we recognize that funding agencies have forbidden their grantees to publish in journals that do not allow such mandated deposits.
but grudgingly accepts the NIH access policy. Its statement on UK funders is wrong since it omits the NIHR, which provides over £1bn research funding annually and supports open access. AACR is a supported of the Washington DC principles, which is trying to reverse the NIH access policy.
None of this byzantine architecture will be of the slightest interest to the average researcher, who just wants to read the article. They might just be interested in doing this search however, which is easy, likely to be part of their work flow and will take them directly to an abstract (content at last!) and the email address of the lead author who will supply a reprint/preprint, probably by return and without cost.
Instead of propping up the unfathomable and inefficient superstructure of journal publishers, could librarians make a real start on helping users (Ranganathan Law 4) obtain texts using modern methods?
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