PDMHS Bulletin (Mining History) Web Edition.
The Society has commenced a project to scan images of articles from past
copies of the Bulletin (later Mining History) and to make them available
as downloads from the Society website. It is intended to present these
as Adobe pdf files showing scanned images of the original pages. As a
pilot most Bulletins between Volume 8:4 (Winter 1982) and 13:6 (Winter
1998) have been scanned. This will give an archive of some 260 articles
(some large and some small). These articles have been written by some
150 different authors. Whilst the Society retains the copyright to the
printed Bulletin, the copyright of the text is retained by the author.
This notice has been framed in an attempt to obtain permission to
reproduce from the authors of these, and other, articles in the
Bulletin. Should authors feel that they do not wish their work to appear
in scanned and downloadable format on the PDMHS website would they
please inform the Webmaster, who will then remove the article.
To ensure membership and sales are not adversely affected, the
penultimate and current volumes will not be included, i.e a minimum of
three years issues and a maximum of six years will not be included on
the Web Edition, though the articles within them will be included on the
Society's index to articles.
David Williams
Note: The three people that immediately spring to mind as being authors
and who read the Discussion list are Peter Claughton, Mike Gill and John
Pickin. I hope they will give permission.
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David Williams
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