上周,看到一期Nature上的文章,但在网上检索不到该期杂志的下载,加之宿舍网络无法登陆Nature数据库下全文,就尝试联系了文章作者,耶鲁大学地质和地球物理学院的一位研究人员。上周五晚上发的邮件,本周二晚上得到的回复。寄来的全文,除了见之于杂志上的6页文章外,还有几页是未在杂志上刊出的相关图表。
网上有一些相关的邮件模板,重要的是态度诚恳,简洁:
Dear Prof. (Dr.) XXX (作者名),
I am XXXX, a graduate (doctoral) student in XXXX University in China. My major is XXX (你的专业).
I am very interested in your recently publication: XXXXX (文章名),
published in xXXXX (杂志名), XXX年。But I have no access to thispaper, so would you please mail me a PDF file of this paper? My e-mail address is :XX@XXXXXX.
if you have no PDF file of this paper, would you please mail me a copy viaair mail.
Sincerely yours,
XXXXXXX
Dear Dr. (注:国外作者无论其是教授还是其他什么职务,如果有博士学位,他更愿意别人称他为博士),
I am interested in your paper entiltled \"------\" (Journal name, Vol, Page ). Iwould be very grateful if you could send me a copy in PDF or worddocument on my e-mail box. Thank you!
Regards,
Name,
一个比较长的:
Dear Prof.(Dr.) XXX, (author's name)
I am a graduate (doctor) student majored in XXX (你的专业) of XXXUniversity (你的学校) in China. Recently, I found one of your articles,titled \"XXXXXXXXXXXX\" (你所要的文章名)in \"XXXX\"(杂志). I found it mayhelp me achieve my goals in this research field. This would make a reallypositive contribution to my work.
I would like to be able to read the full text of this article,but I have noaccess to this paper, I wonder if you would consider sending me the full textby Email. Thank you for your kind consideration of this request.Sincerely: ___________(您的名字)
My Email address is: ____________________ (你的email地址)
收到全文后的感谢信:
注意:收到全文后一定要回复作者收到全文,并表示感谢。
Dear______,
Thank you very much for your help. I have received the requested article. Your kind help is very much appreciated. Thank you again for your consideration.Yours sincerelyXXX
自己写的:
Dear Prof. XXX:
I am XXX, a graduate student in Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. My major is Meteorology.
I am very interested in your recently publication Tropical cyclones and permanent El Ni?o in the early Pliocene epoch published in Nature on Feb 25th 2010. I find it may help me achieve my goals in this research field. But I have no access to the full text of this article, so would you please mail me aPDF file of this paper by e-mail?
My e-mail address is (自己邮箱)
Thank you for your kind consideration of this request.
Yours sincerely
XXX
Apr 24th,2010
感谢信:
Dear Prof.XXX:
Thank you very much for your help. I have received the requested article: Tropical cyclones and permanent El Ni?o in the early Pliocene epoch.Yourkind help is very much appreciated. Thank you again for your consideration.
Yours sincerely
XXX(自己名字)
Apr 29th,2010
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