The list includes some 80 selected publications from 1960 to 2005, along with all ICCROM Newsletters.

ICCROM’s aim in digitizing these works is to make them freely available online to the widest possible viewership, both on our website and through no-cost scientific and conservation literature databases such as ICOMOS Open Archive: E-prints for Cultural Heritage.  We will make the scanned publications digitally available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives (BY-NC-ND) license.

ICCROM sees this digitization project as a way of enhancing the value of this past collaboration by giving it new life, making these difficult-to-obtain publications available and relevant to a new generation of scholars and professionals. Because there will be no charge to access these works, no monies will be collected and therefore no royalties can or will be paid.

These publications have involved the participation of huge numbers of conservation professionals worldwide, 1300 at a rough estimate. We would therefore like to hear from as many past collaborators as possible, approving this scanning project and giving agreement that the ICCROM publications in which they were involved should be made freely available as described.

Conversely, if you do not wish ICCROM publications featuring your authorship, collaboration or written contributions to be scanned and made available under the terms noted above, we would ask to receive written notice of your objection within 15 business days (three weeks).

ICCROM sees this project as a new means of sharing our past collaborations using current technologies.  Please rest assured that ICCROM gives full recognition, fame and prestige to all the authors of these publications.  The copyright is the exclusive ownership of the individual authors, both personal and corporate, as expressly indicated within each work.  ICCROM copyright applies to materials authored or produced by ICCROM employees and contractors during their contract periods, or as reflected in individual works.

ICCROM network members, as authors, editors, translators, contributors and collaborators, have provided value to the original publications, the same value we aim to preserve and communicate in this new format.  For this reason, if we do not receive a negative response from collaborators with respect to specific publication(s), we will proceed with scanning and posting under the legal notion of silence procedure, procédure d'approbation tacite or qui tacet consentit.

We thank those collaborators and institutions who have already contacted us to provide their agreement for this project.

Please find at the link a full list of the titles intended for scanning.  We welcome your responses, comments and communications on this project, and particularly contact information for collaborators, to the following email address:  scan@iccrom.org 

Book scanning list (PDF)

updated on: 3 January, 2013