We at CCP4 are pleased to announce that the online archive of CCP4 Newsletter articles is now finally complete. We located hard copies of the previously missing editions 1 to 29, scanned them and are hosting the resulting PDFs on our website:
http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/newsletters.php As we occasionally received requests for old articles, we hope that this complete archive will be of use to the community. Certainly browsing the old editions will be useful for anybody interested in the history of CCP4 - and dare I say a little nostalgic for some of you out there ;-). The first issue, dated October 1979, and when the newsletter was called the Daresbury Laboratory Information Quarterly for Protein Crystallography, describes the nascent days of the "Collaborative Computational Project in Protein Crystallography", shortly after the project was first approved. The first article proper is perhaps unsurprisingly about a data format; a regular theme for the newsletter. The editorial of that first edition ends with this paragraph, which of course remains true today: Please note that the main aim of the newsletter is to keep people informed > of the work being carried out by the CCP and of which programs are > available for general use. We will therefore rely upon your contributions > for future editions! Happy reading. -- David
