WISE Newsletter, Vol.1, No.7 (January 14, 2013) (back to home page)
We are happy to report that several anomalies periodicals are being made available to you via the WISE Digital Library (WDL). These titles include: 1) The Zetetic 2) Project Hessdalen Newsletter 3) Omni Magazine and 4) The Nordic UFO Newsletter. These issues are being made available via links to other websites, and as such are part of the “distributed library” aspect of the WDL. Many of the anomalies periodicals and books that have been digitized (and that will be digitized in the future) are still under copyright protection. And it is, therefore, necessary to provide links to such periodicals, since we can’t just copy and paste them directly into the WDL without permission of the copyright holder.
- The Zetetic Scholar was published by the late Dr. Marcello Truzzi, a professor of sociology for many year at Eastern Michigan University, and who founded and ran the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research (CSAR) until his death in 2003. A total of eleven issues were published, beginning with Vol 1, no. 1 in 1978, and ending with Vol. 12/13 in August, 1987. There were two combined number issues that were published. The entire set has been made available by the research scholar George P. Hanson at: http://tricksterbook.com/truzzi/ZeteticScholars.html
- The Project Hessdalen Newsletter, as the name implies, was the periodical published by Project Haessdalen, an organization in Norway that has been investigating the strange lights that have appeared for decades in the Hessdalen Valley of that country. Dr. Erling Strand, a prominent member of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE), our sister organization, was one of the founders of this project. The Newsletter was published in English from 1983-1985, and a total of seven issues were published. Ole Jonny Braenne, a well known researcher and writer in Norway, with whom WISE is working and coordinating digitization of periodicals, has digitized all of the issues of the Project Hessdalen Newsletter and has made them available at: http://www.ufonorway.com.ar/archive/PHB/
- OMNI Magazine was a well know newsstand magazine published from 1978 to 1995 by OMNI Publications International, Ltd. in New York. It carried articles on many kinds of anomalies, as well as, speculation and futuristic articles. Vol. 1, no.1 was issued in October, 1978, and after 196 issues, ceased with Vol. 17, no. 9 (Winter, 1995). All 196 issues are available at: http://archive.org/details/omni-magazine
- The Nordic UFO Newsletter was a newsletter published from 1981-1988 by “Nordic UFO Groups”, which consisted of three organizations: 1) Norsk UFO Center in Norway; 2) Riksorganisationen UFO – Sverige in Sweden; and 3) the organization called “UFO Research of Finland”. These groups published a total of 11 issues of the newsletter, beginning with issue No.1 in 1981 and ending with Issue No.1 in 1988. All 11 issues were digitized by Ole Jonny Braenne, the well know researcher and writer mentioned above, and is available at: http://www.ufonorway.com.ar/archive/NUN/
The above periodicals are only a few of many anomalies and alternative medicine periodicals that we know have been digitized, and we will continue to search for others and make them available to you. Besides digitizing anomalies and alternative medicine periodicals, WISE is working with Dr. Michael Swords and his colleagues, with Ole Jonny Braenne of Norway, with Anders Liljegren of Sweden, and other individuals and organizations around the world to coordinate the digitization of these periodicals.
It is a very laborious and expensive process, so we do not want to duplicate what others have already digitized, nor do we want anyone to waste their time and money by digitizing a periodical that we or our colleagues may already have digitized or started to digitize. Coordination is obviously necessary to prevent such duplication of effort.
So please check your hard drives, databases, and other sources you have access to for any anomalies or alternative medicine periodicals that may be present and are already digitized, and let us know or send them to us. And please help us digitize periodicals if you have access to a scanner or copying machine. With everyone pitching in, we will be able to digitize a great many periodicals and make them available for everyone’s use. Even if you only have access to a copying machine, that will be just fine, because you can also send me copies and I will digitize them, and I will pay you any postage costs involved.
There are hundreds of anomalies and alternative medicine periodicals, but there are also hundreds of us, so if we each offered to copy or scan just one periodical title, we would soon have hundreds of digitized periodicals for everyone to use. But please check with me first so we can keep track of who is copying or scanning what periodicals. With your help, we can create a very valuable digital library of anomalies and alternative medicine periodicals that will be of use to researchers worldwide. You can write to me, John Reed, at joreed43@gmail.com Thank you for your help.
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