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I would find an archive, on CD or DVD, an excellent idea. In fact, I know of several magazines which do this, notably SysAdmin and The Perl Journal, both of which have circulations much smaller than MR's (The Perl Journal has well under 50,000 subscribers, and SysAdmin is likely under 100,000). <br /> <br />Even if it was just back issues, this would come in quite handy. Pictures could be scaled down to web size (72dpi) with larger available, and drawings could be available in full resolution. There are several automated utilities for this work.Heck, I'd settle for 300dpi scans of the pages of older MR's, with nothing else done. <br /> <br />Of course, there are copyright issues. I doubt MR holds the electronic rights to much of it's content, notably anything written by a third party. This is likely the major stumbling block to such an endeavor. It's not an issue for National Geographic because all of it''s articles are 'Work for Hire', and thus the National Geographic Society holds the copyright, rather than the author, MR is not in this position, except for articles by then-current staff members.
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