On 10/3/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/3/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote: I have the phone number of my local library.
So supose I claim that "heterocycles can have many nitrogens but only one sulfur or oxygen in any ring" and cite page 1176 Organic chemistry Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers ISBN 0-19-850346-6. Now the book exists but your local libary may not have a copy so it takes time for you to get it. That is quite a lot of effort (fortunetly in this case the book is a fairly standard text book so there should be at least one other person who has a copy). This gets really fun when someone decides to reference something that can only be aquired from the public records office.
Your claim of course should probably be in just about *any* advanced organic chemistry text book.
But supposing it was something more obscure. I don't see the problem with citations from public records or reference books available through the public library system. These are eminently verifiable.