Author first pass requests

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Textpresso scans the paper for an e-mail address based on the '@'. The first e-mail it finds is used as the author to contact.

This doesn't work with BMC journals-->
see e-mail thread with subject line Re: textpresso grepped emails

"i inspected the results of the automated corresponding author 
identification system that Juancarlos has been using. It was 100% ! 
successful for 20 of 20 most recent papers. therefore, we can 
conclude that the system is working pretty well, except 

as Gary pointed out, in the case of BMC Journals, there may be a 
systematic problem. BMC Journals appear to have a consistent pattern 
of having a "* - " right in front of the corresponding author's e-mail. 
perhaps we could try incorporating this in the existing script to see 
if we can improve the outcome without major changes.

raymond"

Other articles whose authors will not be requested for first-passing include: any article with no e-mail contact information (old articles, book chapters)