Without knowing the name of the journal or the name of the article people's ability to help is going to be limited to "search Archive.org", or "check sci hub".
Do you have a near by university? You run into this a lot in grad school. Usually you figure out if the library has a copy. Sometimes they'll have a digital copy available through their academic licenses. You might also be able to work with your local public library but I'd try a university first.
If you have an affiliation with the school or some academic credentials you could also try a faculty member.
Have you tried a local (or slightly larger than local) library? Not necessarily that I’d expect them to have it there on hand, but the couple of librarians I’ve known would jump at the minor mystery of tracking it down, and they’ll absolutely have the knowledge/contacts/database access to do so.
Alternatively, if you can at least find the publisher of the journal they’ll likely maintain an archive even if that specific publication is defunct, and you can contact them directly - although that might be tricky in itself depending how many mergers and acquisitions there have been between then and now.
Final option would be to post the Pubmed link here and nerd snipe us all with the challenge of finding it!
I did this once for an old math paper from the early 1900s.
Search for it on WorldCat. If you’re lucky, a university close enough to you to travel to will have a copy, and they will probably have some way you can access it. If not, you still have some options. In my case, only two universities in the US had a copy of the paper I was looking for. What I did: join a discord server for students at that university majoring in whatever subject the journal is concerned with, and then as politely as possible ask if anyone would be willing to check out the materials from the library for you (a lot of university libraries will even digitize it for you. In my case they actually didn’t even provide the option of physically checking it out because of how fragile the paper had become). Oh yeah also it helps if you offer anyone willing to help you like ten bucks or something. More if they are going to scan it for you.
Ask your librarian.
Without knowing the name of the journal or the name of the article people's ability to help is going to be limited to "search Archive.org", or "check sci hub".
Do you have a near by university? You run into this a lot in grad school. Usually you figure out if the library has a copy. Sometimes they'll have a digital copy available through their academic licenses. You might also be able to work with your local public library but I'd try a university first.
If you have an affiliation with the school or some academic credentials you could also try a faculty member.
If you're comfortable sharing it would probably help to have details on what it is.
You might try the library / university associated with the authors? SciHub or LibGen might be worth a quick check, too.
Have you tried a local (or slightly larger than local) library? Not necessarily that I’d expect them to have it there on hand, but the couple of librarians I’ve known would jump at the minor mystery of tracking it down, and they’ll absolutely have the knowledge/contacts/database access to do so.
Alternatively, if you can at least find the publisher of the journal they’ll likely maintain an archive even if that specific publication is defunct, and you can contact them directly - although that might be tricky in itself depending how many mergers and acquisitions there have been between then and now.
Final option would be to post the Pubmed link here and nerd snipe us all with the challenge of finding it!
I did this once for an old math paper from the early 1900s.
Search for it on WorldCat. If you’re lucky, a university close enough to you to travel to will have a copy, and they will probably have some way you can access it. If not, you still have some options. In my case, only two universities in the US had a copy of the paper I was looking for. What I did: join a discord server for students at that university majoring in whatever subject the journal is concerned with, and then as politely as possible ask if anyone would be willing to check out the materials from the library for you (a lot of university libraries will even digitize it for you. In my case they actually didn’t even provide the option of physically checking it out because of how fragile the paper had become). Oh yeah also it helps if you offer anyone willing to help you like ten bucks or something. More if they are going to scan it for you.