"In many and increasingly more cases, the entire publications are
fully text searchable by the Portal." Or by Google: I think in those
cases a Google search will also pick it up, and the Karst Information
Portal copy will come up as a source. I'd try a Google search first,
as it will also pick up other things. I think the KIP is great,
especially for its efforts to scan and OCR things that had never been
digitized, like all the old NSS News's and NSS bulletins. But some of
what it provides is redundant; Google will find the abstracts of all
those journal papers. But hopefully KIP's collections of more obscure
caver literature will be more permanent than many other web sites turn
out to be. If KIP has digitized or just archived the newsletter of the
Bogalosa Grotto and the Bogalosa Grotto and its own web site
disappear, we're still covered. (The NSS library should also keep its
own copies of all internal organization newsletters that are available
as PDFs. It really should be scanning them itself, but it's a
monumental task, and if KIP has the resources, more power to them.)
-- Mixon
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