Last changed: 1999-11-23 at 10:00 GMT
I now have copies of the original Fogg, Dole and Hart articles mentioned in the starform documentation, courtesy of the British Library through their reprint service, Lexicon. Note that these are hard-copy, not electronic versions, and are under copyright so I can't put them up here. They cost something like £15 for the reprints.
All of the papers suffer from a fault as far as my use is concerned, they miss out some essential information for simulation (and it would have helped had they included the source code of the programs, but I don't expect miracles). For instance, the Hart article starts talking about chemical reactions between gasses in the atmosphere, and gives a couple of examples, and then says something like "and the others are similar". It also talks about the rate of solution of O2 and CO2 in water being the only ones which matter, but neglects to mention what those rates are.
Much the same seems to be true of books, such as Dole's Habitable Worlds for Man, they are written as a guide to what the authors did and the results which they found but don't contain enough information for me to duplicate their work.
I'm not knocking the papers or their authors, I suspect that they were written for (and by) people with access to a University library where they could just find out these little details. It's just annoying for me. Of course, if I noted down all of the references in each of the papers and then got copies of all those...