A few months ago, I came across a site which had lots of stuff, some of which looked like fairly recent memoirs of the BGS, or very similar. The collection was incomplete, some were titles only, but others were full articles. I think the digitisation was just not finished. I believe it was publicly funded, but can't remember by which agency.

As it was a database-driven site where you have to follow the menus to find anything (no direct links possible) the pages which I remember are invisible to Google.

Needless to say I forgot to bookmark it, and it has expired from my browser history. I have spent ages searching, with no sign of it.

Can anyone here help, please?

Alan

This??

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/nocomico/home.html 

DP

No, but thanks for that link, which is also useful.

The site I am trying to find is not specifically about mining, mostly regional geology.There is an article about the Stirling Sill, for example.

The Geological Society has the best complete on-line geological library at:

http://www.lyellcollection.org/ 

This has all the Geolm Soc publications and also access to most other journals however you may need a membership number.

No, it was not that one either. I don't remember having to pay, and I don't have any recollection of having to register as a user.

Alan

No, it was not that one either. I don't remember having to pay, and I don't have any recollection of having to register as a user.

Alan

The Lyell collection site was initially free while they were still developing it and I dont think you had to register. They only brought in the subscription after it was finished.

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http://www.mindat.org/  ?

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Vanoord,

Sorry, not that one either. Useful site, though.

sparty_lea,

That is a possibility, however the site I was using was free about 3 months ago, or less. Certainly it was not complete at that stage. But I don't remember seeing any suggestion that it would cease to be free.

I am thinking that it may have belonged to a library or museum, but I have tried the obvious ones.

I will keep looking....

Alan

Found it! javascript:emoticon(':)')By accident, as the first time. This time it is safely bookmarked.

http://www.thegcr.org.uk/Sites/GCR_v27_C06_Site1387.htm  is the page I needed, but there is lots more there. Still a long way from completion, however.

I gave up on the BGS site and Lyell javascript:emoticon('>:(')as there is absolutely no way of me qualifying for membership at any level, and $30 for 24 hours access to one document is simply ridiculous in this day and age. Not only that, but I could not find very much that was useful in the index.

Information which has already in many cases been paid for by the taxpayer should be free, especially as the cost of web hosting is very much less than the cost of printing hundreds of publications each year. But old-fashioned institutional snobbishness is still alive and well, for now. They don't seem to realise that there are hundreds of thousands of private researchers out there, some of whom would not mind paying a reasonable fee for basic access to the library.

The link above is funded by exactly the same taxpayer, but managed by enlightened people who obviously understand the Internet age and the need for information to be free if it is going to be used to best effect. Well done, thegcr.org.uk!