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Welcome to the new Innovation and Research Focus Web site. We have tried to anticipate your questions in the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section below, but if you cannot find the answer you are looking for, please do not hesitate to contact Roger Venables, the editor of Innovation and Research Focus.
No. All the articles from the last 7 years' issues of Innovation & Research Focus that were sponsored by current sponsors are available in HTML and PDF format. It was felt that to add articles from earlier issues would not be cost-effective. In addition, we reviewed the status and contents of each article before it was uploaded, and a small number of articles are not included in the on-line archive because their usefulness was felt to be very limited or because they had been superseded by later articles. Single issues of IRF will continue to be available in PDF format.
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All you need is a browser. The articles can be read using your browser; to print the article exactly as you see it, simply press the Print button at the foot of the page. You can also read the article in PDF (Acrobat) format. Many PCs now have the Acrobat reader software installed, but if yours doesn't, you can download a free copy of the Reader software from the Adobe Web site.
To search for an article, simply click on the Search button on the main menu, enter your key word or phrase and press return, or the Search button. The site will return a list of all the articles featuring your search term: you can choose to search either for all the words in your search phrase; any occurrence of any of the words in your search term, or the exact phrase (for further details, see guidance on the Search page).
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Yes. Printed copies of IRF will continue to be distributed to Members and Fellows of the ICE; to a mailing list of interested parties held by the ICE; and to employees, customers and contacts of the sponsoring organisations.
If you don't already receive a printed copy of IRF, please join our e-mailing list so that we can tell you by email when new issues of IRF are published on this site.
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Yes, sometimes. The articles in the printed copy of IRF often have to be edited down to fit the 8-page format of the newsletter. On the web, these cuts are sometimes restored, so that some of the articles include additional text or, more likely, additional pictures or illustrations when they are available from the author. However, please note that, for most articles, the downloadable pdf version is the same as in the printed Newsletter.
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Contact information is given at the foot of each article. Contact details for each article uploaded to the site have been revisited and updated where necessary, so are fully current even where the article itself was published several years ago.
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