The surviving editors and publishers of the ICCF-3 and ICCF-5 proceedings have given me permission to upload these books. Most of the publishers are defunct and most of the editors and publishers are dead, so there were not many people left to get permission from.
This will be a lot of work, and it may take 2 or 3 months. I have scanned copies of the books but there are problems such as pages cut off, poor contrast, or graphs scanned at an angle. I have original paper copies of both books, so I can fix all problems. I have to rescan ~100 pages. I have already added several important individual papers from the book, which you can find in the publication index under "Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, 'Frontiers of Cold Fusion.'" So this will not be a giant improvement to the collection. Anyone who would like to assist in the proofreading of these books should contact me. This phase will start in a month or two. I am going to make image Acrobat files to there will not be much proofreading. Mainly looking for distorted images, dirt from the scanner, and OCR errors that might interfere with searches and indexing. One of the books has the same pattern of dirt on the top left of every single page, from something caught in the scanner. Fortunately, it is outside the margins, so I can eliminate it in a few minutes. ICCF-3 (1992) is a large book, 689 pages. In a way, it represents the apogee of cold fusion, being the biggest conference with the most participants: 346 people, 102 papers, 320 authors (tally by David Nagel). ICCF-14 (2008) had 180 participants, 97 papers. I do not have the tally for ICCF-15. Of course a great deal of technical progress has been made since then, but that was probably the peak of participation, and many subsequent presentations were a rehash of the papers in this book. It is depressing. After I finish these two books, I do not think there are many important old papers left that would benefit readers, so this will pretty much wrap up the LENR-CANR project. Papers published now and in the future are in electronic format and I can upload them in a few minutes, whereas it can take several days or a week to prepare an old paper copy. There are a few important authors such as Mengoli who are not represented, but they refused permission. I do not think there is much more to do. I am wondering what I should do with myself after I finish these two books. My thanks to A. Takahashi, K. Kunimatsu and H. Ikegami for permission and for contacting others. And also to the editors, conference organizers and sponsors now deceased, including K. Namba, M. Okamoto and Minoru Toyoda. Okamoto was a fine scientist and jolly good fellow who died young. I miss him. I am sorry to report that Ikegami is in poor health, and has been in the hospital lately. - Jed
