I agree that Speleo Digest was a great
publication. I refer to mine often when
researching what's known about specific caves.
There is an international alternative to Speleo
Digest, and that is Speleological Abstracts /
Bulletin Bibliographique Spéléologique
<http://ssslib.ch/bbs/public/anglais/index.htm>
put out by the UIS (Union Internationale de
Spéléologie / International Union of Speleology).
Of course it will not be so focused on American
publications, but does cover some of them,
including the NSS News, AMCS Activities
Newsletter and West Virginia Caver. They would be
happy to cover more U. S. publications if someone
would take the time to send them abstracts. (My
partner Yvonne does the NSS News and WV Caver.)
It is by far the easiest way to find information
on caves in other countries. Unlike Speleo
Digest, it does not select specific articles, but
rather provides abstracts of every article in
each issue of the publications it covers. That
doesn't serve to weed out the bad from the good,
but at least the information is there and
searchable. Actually getting a copy of an article
you're interested is another issue. They don't
have the newsletters themselves, only the
abstracts sent in by their collaborators.
Fortunately more and more newsletters are becoming available online.
Mark
At 11:59 PM 3/20/2014, Mixon Bill wrote:
Even if all grotto newsletters were on line and publicly accessible,
that wouldn't substitute for the Speleo Digest. What it did is weed
out the stuff (vast majority of most newsletters) of no permanent
value and gather the rest into one convenient collection. Certainly it
did an incomplete job of that, but a lot better than nothing. I'm not
going to spend a lot of time browsing the web to find stuff I don't
even know is there. Sure, if I wanted a map of XYZ Cave, Google might
turn up the newsletter it is in if it's on the web somewhere, but what
if I've never even heard of XYZ Cave but might like to?
Oh, well, as I said, R.I.P. -- Mixon
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