Need help finding an article from the 1970's?

Question

I've tried looking for this article on EBSCO and FirstSearch, but nothing comes up. It was cited in a Cal OSHA publication, so it must exist (i hope) but its really old. can anyone help?

"Sick Building Syndrome and Building-Related Illnesses" by Theodore Passon, James W. Brown, and Seth Mante

I dont think the article is by Cal OSHA, it was only cited by Cal OSHA, and very poorly at that. The Cal OSHA pamphlet only gives the title of the article, aurthors' names and an approximate date. I don't even know what publication its out of.

The Cal OSHA publication the article is cited was published in 2001. (Molds, Toxic Molds and Indoor Air Quality)

Answer 1

This article was actually published just ten years ago in the journal MEDICAL LABORATORY OBSERVER July 1996, pages 84-95. It was part six in a series called "New and Emerging Pathogens." I could not find a copy of this article available for free online, but your University may subscribe the journal or to a database that indexes its articles. On your library's website, look for an option to "find journals" (not journal articles). Then search for MEDICAL LABORATORY OBSERVER and see what access options come up. If your library does not have access to the journal, try searching for it on www.worldcat.org (again, for the journal, not for the article). If you enter your zip code, worldcat will tell you the nearest library that has it. Good luck!

Answer 2

You may have to do this the hard way, got to your local library and see if they have copies of the CA osha magazine listed back to the 1970s. It would probably be on Microfishe somewhere. They can do a library search for you to see which library carries the publication back to that date.

Answer 3

I found California DOSH. For articles that old, you may need to search your local library stacks and/or microfische.

Good luck.