Bill, Thanks for the good words. At NCKRI we're trying to support open access to publications as much as possible. That is one of the big reasons we're working on the Karst Information Portal as a giant virtual international cave and karst library. I've seen too many people, who really need information to do good works, blocked from receiving it because it is too expensive to buy. It is a tough choice to do this because selling publications can provide us small but needed funding, but providing open access publications is just the right thing to do. I won't swear that we'll never print another publication, but the next six publications we have on the horizon (not counting our annual report which be available in both print and digital format) are all planned as digital.
George ******************** George Veni, Ph.D. Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-6215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 [email protected] www.nckri.org -----Original Message----- From: Mixon Bill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:30 AM To: Cavers Texas Subject: [Texascavers] Sinkhole Conference proceedings Thanks, George and NCKRI. I've always been frustrated that the proceedings of the previous conferences in the series were allowed to fall into the hands of commercial scientific publishers who priced them for libraries and professionals, with the result that I own few or none of them. The free PDF is great, and the layout is, for the most part, fully commercial-quality. It's not just a concatenation of files provided by the authors. I'll be having made a bound black-and- white printout, but of course I'll also keep a copy of the PDF on disk, because some fraction of the numerous color images really require seeing the color for understanding. There are quite a few papers about Texas.--Mixon ---------------------------------------- Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: [email protected] AMCS: [email protected] or [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
