What are the ways I could get my hands on this paper?

[fluidistic]

There is a soviet paper I would really love to read: https://www.osti.gov/search/semantic:5509754.
Unfortunately, I have found no pdf nor anything of the sort on the Internet. Google told me it was published by some Ukranian University (thankfully it still exists and has a website). There is 1 phone and email address of the library of that university, in their website, but it isn't clear to me whether they would just scan the document and send it to me (work is not free).

So far I can think of:
1) Going to Ukraine and check if the paper is still in the library. But too expensive, and time consuming.
2) Email the library to ask what can be done. I am no student (I know students can requests to have any doc from any library).

Any other ideas are welcome.

 

[BillTre]

Contact the authors.

 

[Frabjous]

Use worldcat to search for libraries in your area with the journal “Sov. Phys. - Semicond”

 

[Keith_McClary]

Contact the authors.

I've never tried this:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241909762_Temperature_distribution_in_anisotropic_thermoelements
"Request full-text PDF"

 

[StevieTNZ]

I'd contact the author(s) and ask them politely if they could send you the article in question. I've done this before (a few papers from Russia). It saved me a cost of getting my university library inter-loaning it from them.

 

[Frabjous]

The paper is from 1982. Good chance you will not find the authors.

 

[berkeman]

The paper is from 1982. Good chance you will not find the authors.

Looks like the lead author published as recently as 2006, so maybe a chance...

Maybe contact their research institution / department?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernivtsi_University

 

[Frabjous]

There is also the question if the English translations of Soviet journal articles made it back to the authors.

 

[StevieTNZ]

There is also the question if the English translations of Soviet journal articles made it back to the authors.

I think it was published in English.

 

[Frabjous]

I think it was published in English.

It‘s from an English translation journal of Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, so it is not clear if the authors would have copies of the English translation.

There were several “Soviet Physics - Topic“ English translation journals.

 

[fluidistic]

Samoilovich died in 1981, I found his wikipedia page (in Ukranian only), and an article written in 2006 about the 100th anniversary of him being born. I also found a textbook published in 2007 under his name, I am guessing it's a reedition of an older book...

Edit. I found some russian websites with old papers by Samoilovich, but couldn't find the one I am looking for. I have learned some cyrillic alphabet and I wouldn't mind if I could grt the article in Russian, google or so could translate it anyway. I've emailed.the library in Ukraine but I,don't expect an answer. By the way, worldcat is blank regarding which library could hold the gem.

 

[StevieTNZ]

Edit. I found some russian websites with old papers by Samoilovich, but couldn't find the one I am looking for. I have learned some cyrillic alphabet and I wouldn't mind if I could grt the article in Russian, google or so could translate it anyway. I've emailed.the library in Ukraine but I,don't expect an answer. By the way, worldcat is blank regarding which library could hold the gem.

Hopefully you get an answer from the library. Another way of getting it is putting in an inter-library loan request for the article via your local library (whether public or university).

I had a dream about this and I found a torrent link you could download the paper from. I was going to PM you the website address (but at that point of the dream I woke up... my dreams are weird)

I also did notice WorldCat isn't showing whether you could obtain the journal from, as well. It must be somewhere for sure.

 

[Frabjous]

When I look at worldcat, it lists 221 libraries that have the journal.
13 are within 100 miles of me. 16 are further than 5000 miles away.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/soviet-physics-semiconductors/oclc/802450660&referer=brief_results

 

[romsofia]

Another idea: Find papers that cite this paper, and contact those authors to see if they have a copy.

 

[fluidistic]

Another idea: Find papers that cite this paper, and contact those authors to see if they have a copy.

Of course, there is none for this paper.
I'll contact the libraries that may hold the journal nearby, to see what can be done.

 

[fluidistic]

I am litterally shaking. The Ukranian university's library just sent me a pdf of the article... I need to go there and pay them a coffee or two...

 

[StevieTNZ]

I am litterally shaking. The Ukranian university's library just sent me a pdf of the article... I need to go there and pay them a coffee or two...

Glad you managed to get a copy!

 

[JackFeliciano]

Thank you so much for the suggestions. I am glad I have found your post because I was searching for it for my friend.

 

[jtbell]

I am litterally shaking. The Ukranian university's library just sent me a pdf of the article... I need to go there and pay them a coffee or two...

You might want to wait a bit...

 

[StevieTNZ]

You might want to wait a bit...

That is if it still exists...

 

[fluidistic]

You might want to wait a bit...

I know, unbelievable. I am thinking every day about it. I will go there, once this nightmare is over. I will visit Kharkiv too (it's not really far from there), after all that's where Lev Landau spent a few years of his life.