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

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