One of the UK’s oldest engineering publishing arms dating back to 1847 has taken over a century of historical documents onto the Internet for the first time.
PEP, based at the IMechE’s headquarters in Westminster, London, has placed a huge amount of history online. It publishes 17 journal titles covering areas including medical, transport, aerospace and manufacturing.
The online archive, titled ‘IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996’ can be accessed worldwide at http://archive.pepublishing.com. Archives after 1996 were already available online and prior to the new online resource, the journals were only available through library loan.
Peter Williams, academic director of PEP, said: “Our collection of academic journals represents the very best in mechanical engineering and build upon the excellent heritage we already had. This new, online version will allow the engineering community to access technical papers, obituaries, meeting reports, technical drawings and editorial comment of significant engineering, historical and social importance.”
