Journal Archive Goes Digital – Can You Help ?

Work is taking place to create electronic copies of past issues of the Alpine Journal, which will be available to members and others to consult via the web.  The first batch will cover the years 1990 to 2008, with the latest edition (2008) available only to members. The second batch will cover 1969 to 1989. Users will be able to browse the Contents pages of each issue, search via the published indexes, by areas of the world, by individual and via a full text index.

 The Alpine Journal is the most comprehensive record of mountaineering from its birth to the present day and contains some of the best writing anywhere on all aspects of the sport.  Over the past 40 years over 2,000 articles have appeared, by over 700 contributors, 340 of whom are present or past members of the Club.  Making the Journal available on-line will open it to a much wider global audience of climbers and scholars and help reinforce the Club’s unique reputation as the home of alpine climbing. It also provides a superb opportunity to broadcast the achievements, ideas and literary skills of individual members who write for the Journal.

 
Have you written for the Alpine Journal in the past ? – if so you can help.  We are wanting to gain the consent of AC members who have written for the Journal to their contributions appearing as part of the electronic copy.  The electronic copy of the Journal will remain copyright in the same way as the paper version and readers will be in breach of copyright law if they make multiple copies or republish any material in either paper or electronic form.  All of the authors’ and AC’s rights will be retained.  In giving their agreement, authors are not being asked to transfer copyright to the Club nor sacrificing their right to future publication in another form.  With that protection we are hoping that members will agree to the inclusion of their articles.

If you have written for the AJ it would help greatly if you could send an email to John Town   saying simply that you ‘are happy for your contributions to the Alpine Journal to appear in the electronic version’. 

If you are unsure whether you have contributed or want a list of your articles, or want more details, or have reservations, please get in touch with John at the above address.  Alternatively you can search the composite indexes.  1859-1891    1892-1926     1927-1952    1953-1968     1969-1987   1988-2007.  Search facilities are built into recent versions of the Acrobat PDF reader which is available free of charge.

Steve Goodwin,    Hon. Editor

John Town

ALPINE CLUB, 55/56 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3QF
Telephone: (+44) (0)20 7613 0755      Email: admin@alpine-club.org.uk