The First Forty Years of the Nautical Research Journal
are now available on CD-ROM. The multi-disk CD set contains Adobe Acrobat PDF reprints of
Volumes 1 through 40 of the Nautical Research Journal and Volumes 1 through 3 of the
Secretary's Monthly Letter.
MEMBERS: please
log in to receive the Members Price of
$79.95 -- less than $2.00/volume!
System Requirements: The CD set has been designed to operate
on most Windows and Macintosh computers.
Adobe Acrobat Reader required is needed to view the Journals and Letters.
CAUTION: You must upgrade your browser to use the Searchable Index.
Contents: Each set of disks contains 8,000 pages of ship design
information, maritime history, shop notes and the like. The Journals and Letters are
complete - every page, article, photograph, illustration, plan, table, letter to the
editor and, yes, every advertisement is included. The CD set contains a wealth of
nautical research and ship model building information unobtainable anywhere else.
Many of the issues contained in this set have been long out of print.
The electronic versions of the Journal and Letter have been organized by volume, just
like the printed originals. To simplify looking up articles and references, each volume
has been "book marked" so that you can easily navigate from article to article. In
addition, each volume has been paginated so that the electronic page numbers in each
PDF document match those of the printed original.
LowBridge Digital Publishing has done a truly amazing
job of capturing the contents of
the Journal. The text is clear, and easily readable. Both line drawings and photograph
are reproduced faithfully and, where appropriate, in their original color format. To
view some sample PDF files, click one of the following links:
View Extract from Volume 23, Page 114 -
This sample shows a draught of a British 5th Rate of 1684, and illustrates capture quality
of both printed material and line graphics.
View Extract from Volume 18, page 14 -
This sample consists of a page of photographs of the beakhead of a man-of-war, and illustrates
the quality with which black and white photographs are reproduced.
View Extract from Volume 39, page 214 -
This sample shows photographs of a model of the Great South Bay catboat Pauline, and illustrates
the quality with which color photographs and text are reproduced.
The CD set also contains John Barry's comprehensive printed Index
to Volumes 1 through 40 which has been converted to a searchable electronic
format permitting you to easily search for index entries and then navigate to the desired
page. The searchable index is in HTML format which runs within your computer's web browser.
This allows you to have the searchable index and the Journal open simultaneously on your
computer.
NRG and LowBridge Digital Publishing have set up a Yahoo Newsgroup to answer your
technical support questions. Go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NRGCD - it's free to join.
For further information, contact the NRG office at 585-968-8111, or via e-mail at
nrgoffice@TheNRG.org.
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