Carnivorous Plant Newsletter available on-line

[ICPS-bob]

Back issues of Carnivorous Plant Newsletter (CPN) volumes 1 - 40 (April 1972 - March 2011) are available for ICPS members to download. Early issues were scanned as bitmaps and presented in PDF format.

Access to the download area is password protected and available to ICPS members only. The information needed to obtain access to the files is located at
icps.clubexpress.com/
Once you log in to the ICPS member area, you will find a blue CPN Download button.

If you are not yet an ICPS member, consider joining now.

The entire set of CPN volumes 1 - 39 (April 1972 - December 2010) are available to ICPS members on CD-ROM.

[marcel]

Now that is good news Bob! I am a member since 2002 i would love to read "the early years".

Marcel

[Michael Catalani]

admin said:

The entire set of volumes 1 - 35 will be mailed to ICPS members on CD-ROM with the June issue of CPN.

wow, sweet!

[Tobias Isenberg]

Is there any chance that, at least for future editions, PDFs could be generated during the editing/publishing process? This would mean that the PDFs of the CPN would be of much higher quality and the text would be searchable.

Tobias

[ICPS-bob]

Absolutely. Our plan is to have future CPNs available as searchable PDFs. We will receive the electronic files from the publisher and do the conversion.

Just getting the back issues scanned, cleaned up, and converted as bit-map image PDFs was a huge job. We seriously considered doing OCR on all of the pages, but that was too big a job for the 3 volunteers. If someone wants to volunteer to do that job, we would be thrilled.

As an imperfect alternative, a PDF of all articles published in CPN from volume 1 (April 1972) to volume 32 (December 2003), searchable by authors, title, keywords, or species, is publicly available to everyone on the ICPS web site.
www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Search.php

We have chosen to make the last 3 years of articles available only to ICPS members as an added inducement for membership.

[Vater Araignee]

admin said:

Absolutely. Our plan is to have future CPNs available as searchable PDFs. We will receive the electronic files from the publisher and do the conversion.

Just getting the back issues scanned, cleaned up, and converted as bit-map image PDFs was a huge job. We seriously considered doing OCR on all of the pages, but that was too big a job for the 3 volunteers. If someone wants to volunteer to do that job, we would be thrilled.

I can start doing OCR on the pages but my OCR will only let me proof in learn mode so some mistakes will be made.
I don't have the ability to edit pdf files, but it is a start.

[ICPS-bob]

vater said:

I can start doing OCR on the pages but my OCR will only let me proof in learn mode so some mistakes will be made.
I don't have the ability to edit pdf files, but it is a start.

I am sending you an email to continue this discussion in greater detail.

[Vater Araignee]

I have sent you an e-mail with a link to a test document.
Unfortunately I hit send when I meant to hit spell check so it is incomplete.
However what I was going to write next is not of importance unless my format concept is agreed upon.


ps.
A few keywords to try;
pinguiculas
photomicrography
cytochemical
enzyme
droseras
nepenthes

[wallsg7]

Ive only just read this post but im glad i did! ...brilliant news!

[Deleted]

i recieved the june issue but there was no cd-rom in my envelop or the inside the june issue

admin said:

The entire set of volumes 1 - 35 will be mailed to ICPS members on CD-ROM with the June issue of CPN.

[ICPS-bob]

radjess331 said:

i recieved the june issue but there was no cd-rom in my envelop or the inside the june issue

It should have been included. Cindy said she would take care of it.

[Deleted]

admin said:

It should have been included. Cindy said she would take care of it.

thank you and cindy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i got my cd rom today yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant wait to finish reading all the new letters

[Vater Araignee]

vater said:

I can start doing OCR on the pages but my OCR will only let me proof in learn mode so some mistakes will be made.
I don't have the ability to edit pdf files, but it is a start.

Sigh, I've been trying and trying and I just can get my program to get any better then about 60% accuracy.
I got so frustrated that I even purchased a new ocr program. I'm thinking that ocr's don't preform well on copies of dittos.

Let me tell you "I'm SICK of reading issue one".

[sundewman]

Sorry if I seem completely naive but I'm newer to cps and was very interested in joining the forum. Only thing I was wondering was who the authors of the articles typically are. I've been trying to find information and research done (specifically) by Ivan Snyder and Greg Bourke, but haven't had much luck besides a few articles. I'm mainly interested in Drosera hybrid information, but I'm very interested in finding info about other cps as well. I saw that Greg may have written a few articles for the Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society, but was wondering if he published any through here. Thanks for your help, and sorry for posting this question here. ;D I wasn't able to find a better place on the forum

[ICPS-bob]

You can search the complete volumes of Carnivorous Plant Newsletter from volume 1 number 1 (1972) through volume 37 number 1 (2008).
www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Search.php

All articles through December 2004 are publicly available as PDF to everyone. A PDF of all complete issues from 1972 through March 2008 are available to ICPS members through signing in to
icps.clubexpress.com