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Old September 12th 14, 09:48 PM posted to sci.astro.research
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I have found that the IOP Publishing website for The Astrophysical
Journal (ApJ)
http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X
has serious problems with its "Find article given volume & page number"
facility. For example, if I go to the website, enter "528" in the volume
field, enter "328" in the "Article or page" field, and click "Find article",
I get an error page saying
No Content Found
No content found for: Journal: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume: 523, Issue: Issue, Page: 328


However, that paper *does* indeed exist on the website at the url
http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/523/1/328

In fact, repeating the search after visiting the paper's page now gives
the same error page with the additional message at the bottom

Your last 10 viewed

Correlated Errors in Hipparcos Parallaxes toward the Pleiades and the Hyades
Vijay K. Narayanan and Andrew Gould 1999 ApJ 523 328



This behavior is not unique to this paper, or even to this journal:
I have found the same result trying to look up other references in both
ApJ and other IOP Journals. For example, try finding the paper
http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/26/13/135002/
Fujita & Hikida
Classical and Quantum Gravity 26, 135002
on the (also-published-by-IOP) Classical and Quantum Gravity website.

I have thus far received no response to my E-mail of August 28, 2014
about this, sent to .


If anyone from IOP is reading this newsgroup, please bring this issue
to the attention of your website team!


Questions:
1. Have others seen similar behavior at ApJ and/or other IOP journals?
2. If so, did you complain to IOP, and if so, did you get any response?

ciao,

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Old September 13th 14, 09:19 PM posted to sci.astro.research
Phillip Helbig---undress to reply
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Default Astrophysical Journal (IOP) website problems

In article , "Jonathan
Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]"
writes:

I have found that the IOP Publishing website for The Astrophysical
Journal (ApJ)
http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X
has serious problems with its "Find article given volume & page number"
facility.
This behavior is not unique to this paper, or even to this journal:


I have thus far received no response to my E-mail of August 28, 2014
about this, sent to .


1. Have others seen similar behavior at ApJ and/or other IOP journals?
2. If so, did you complain to IOP, and if so, did you get any response?


My guess is that practically no-one uses these online journal sites.
Most people probably use arXiv for newer papers and ADS for older
papers. Certainly the websites of ADS and arXiv are more sensible than
those of most journals.

ADS is not perfect, but whenever I've pointed out errors, not only was
the email acknowledged within a few days at most, but the problem was
also fixed.

Google Scholar Citations made some waves a few years ago by finding more
citations than ADS in many cases. However, there are more incorrect
citations. Moreover, emails reporting obvious mistakes (like counting
citations for the wrong paper) go unanswered. It looked promising,
especially since the website was quite quick, but it appears that Google
no longer has any interest in a quality product here.
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Old September 13th 14, 09:20 PM posted to sci.astro.research
Eric Flesch
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Default Astrophysical Journal (IOP) website problems

I have seen this same behavior intermittently on NED, when I enter an
object name it replies nothing found, then when I enter the
coordinates it finds that object with that same name, I did complain
about that a couple years ago but I think it confused them and I did
not pursue it. Don't have an example, sorry.
 




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