The first forty years of Cactus and Succulent Journal are now available on DVD in two volumes priced $40 each for CSSA members, $50 for non-members. We ship using the United States Postal Service for all foreign and domestic orders. Wholesale pricing is available for quantities of 10 or more. Please include your member number in the checkout process if claiming the CSSA member price.
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The digitized format of Cactus and Succulent Journal is Copyright © 2007 by the Cactus and Succulent Society of America and may not be reproduced, copied, or distributed without permission.
The first twenty years of the Journal of the CSSA are now available as computer-readable files on a DVD. You can read these early issues on-screen or print out selected articles for study.Features
- Open the files with any web browser.
- All 233 issues of the Journal's first 20 years.
- Indexes for each issue are included along with the 59-page index of the first ten volumes.
- A succulent word list is included that can be used for various spellings of scientific names and other botanical terminology.
- A single text file of the entire 20 volumes. This version is stripped of photos and formatting, and allows a search of the full 20 volumes all at one time; all hits have direct links to the individual file for that issue.
- The 233 individual issues are in folders for each volume. These files maintain all of the photographs, other illustrations, and formatting of the original printed journals, and they are searchable.
- These are high resolution files in PDF format and don't require any special software other than Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which comes standard on nearly all computers. If you need to update, a link for a free download of Reader from the internet is enclosed with the introduction to the DVD.
DVD #2 contains 15 years of the Journal of the CSSA are now available as computer-readable files on a DVD. You can read these early issues on-screen or print out selected articles for study.
Features
- Open the files with any web browser.
- Indexes for each issue are included.
- Each issue is in PDF format, viewable with Adobe’s free software, Acrobat Reader Version 6 or 7, which have extensive search capabilities built in.
- Full-page images of each of the 2933 pages are available for printing as necessary. These images are at full resolution for the clearest possible printing and zoomed-in viewing.
- Also included is a single file with the text for all 90 issues to allow more complicated text searches. In addition, the auxiliary files from the DVD for the first 20 years are included. For more information, or if you encounter any problems in viewing the files, please visit the CSSA web page for contact information: www.cssainc.org These are high resolution files in PDF format and don't require any special software other than Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which comes standard on nearly all computers. If you need to update, a link for a free download of Reader from the internet is enclosed with the introduction to the DVD.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need special equipment?You will need a DVD-ROM reader on your computer that can read the "DVD-R" format. Be careful: DVDs are different from CD-ROMs. They hold ten times as many files, but are a newer format. The disk reader on your computer will be labeled for DVDs if it can handle them. It is possible to buy an external drive that can read and write DVDs of all formats for about $100.
My computer can't read DVDs and I can't upgrade. What now?
It's possible to get the files on CD-ROMs as a special order for an additional charge. See "More Help" below.
I have what seems to be a DVD drive on my computer, but the DVD is not recognized as such, and the computer won't read it.
The DVD is in the "-R" format. Some older DVD readers cannot read this format, although it is said to be the most supported. You will need to either upgrade your DVD reader or get the CD-ROM version of the DVD. See below.