Even recent works might be both unscanned and untranslated.
I experienced this when the only way to access a 70 years old scientific paper written in Italian was by finding a copy in a library and scanning it. There are not many existing copies of the journal left, in a few decades it might have been lost forever.
I experienced this when the only way to access a 70 years old scientific paper written in Italian was by finding a copy in a library and scanning it. There are not many existing copies of the journal left, in a few decades it might have been lost forever.