ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS OF SCOTLAND PUBLICATION POLICY CONTENTS 1. The Need for Publication Page 3 2. Historical Background Page 4 3. Types of Publication Page 6 4. Electronic Publication Page 10 5. Copyright and Acknowledgements Page 11 6. Selection Criteria Page 12 7. Cost Assessment Page 13 8. Management of the Publication Process Page 14 9. Marketing and Distribution Page 15 Abbreviations Page 16 Annex. List of RCAHMS Publications Page 17 Analogous to other policy statements, this Publication Policy document explains why the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) undertakes publication. It begins by outlining its publication history and goes on to describe the wide range of publications and publicity material currently produced by RCAHMS, including those arising out of the growing potential of electronic publication. It also sets out the criteria by which publication projects are selected and costed, and the procedures involved in the preparation, production and marketing of all forms of publication. 1. THE NEED FOR PUBLICATION 1.1 Mission Statement. In accordance with its Royal Warrant, RCAHMS Surveys and Records the built environment of Scotland, Compiles, Maintains and Curates the National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS) and Promotes an Understanding of this information by all appropriate means. 1.2 Promoting an Understanding. The dissemination of information by all available printed and electronic forms of publication is thus a key objective of RCAHMS, the aim being to encourage public use of the archaeological and architectural information service that is provided through its archive and database, and thereby to widen and enrich the understanding of Scotland’s built environment (see also below, 2.5.2 and 2.7). 1.3 Access to Information. Routine access to the massive body of material contained in the RCAHMS archive and database is made possible through computer-based search-mechanisms and a range of indexes and catalogues. User access to textual and map-based material in the database is available remotely through the internet (CANMORE and CANMAP) and developments are well advanced to provide similar access to drawings and digital images. Such developments, however, do not obviate the critical need for conventional paper publication by RCAHMS as a means of introducing potential users to the holdings of NMRS. 1.4 Survey, Record-Collection and Publication. Information that is gathered through survey and record-collecting operations is distilled and presented through a range of publications and exhibitions. For most of these operations, publication or display normally arises out of survey rather than being its primary object, not all survey or record-gathering work being equally suitable or feasible for publication. However, it is recognised that even the most basic form of publication or publicity makes the results of survey and recording more widely accessible. Not only does it raise public awareness of the content and standards of the survey work itself, but also provides effective signposts to the greater body of material held within the NMRS. Insofar as it presents RCAHMS material to users in ways that may be compared with other similar national and international products, publication is the most effective means of fostering peer review and quality assessment. 1.5 Forms of Publication. RCAHMS produces both regular and occasional publications of a format and style appropriate to the nature and circumstances of the programmes which they are intended to represent and reflect; their contents and levels of treatment are also designed to meet the needs of different groups of users, as identified in the Corporate Plan and described briefly below (3.1.4). However, whilst being flexible in approach and treatment, RCAHMS also aims at producing publications which fall into a relatively small number of recognisable series and are of a clearly identifiable general ‘house-style’. All RCAHMS publications are assigned ISBN or ISSN numbers, except for certain categories of un-illustrated reports and documents of the kind described below under 3.7. 1.6 Joint Ventures. Publication is seen as an important component in the general policy of partnership which RCAHMS pursues in the furtherance of its broad aims set out in its Corporate Plan. It thus seeks, within the limits of its resources, to collaborate with other bodies in the publication of RCAHMS material and to engage in collaborative dissemination ventures intended to present RCAHMS records in relation to those of other relevant archives. 1.7 Funding and Sponsorship. All RCAHMS publication proposals are formulated to ensure that printing costs are covered or exceeded by external funding or are supported by the publisher, and that arrangements are in place for effective distribution and marketing which will avoid sizeable storage implications in RCAHMS premises. 2. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 2.1 Inventories. For almost 70 years from its inception in 1908 RCAHMS had a single publication-outlet, the county or regional Inventories with their associated Command Papers, which were directly linked to a field survey programme and were produced through the Government’s publication service, His/Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), now The Stationery Office (TSO). The first six volumes were in a paper-back octavo format, but a hard-back quarto format, permitting greater flexibility in the use of illustration and text, was soon adopted and first appeared in 1920. Altogether, between 1909 and 1992, when the original Inventory series was discontinued, 30 volumes were published, some embracing more than one county, others covering one county in two or more volumes. 2.2 Occasional Publications. The issue in 1960 of a booklet on The Stirling Heads, an important group of Renaissance wood-carvings which could not be fully illustrated and described within the limits of the Stirlingshire Inventory, represented a first step towards a more diversified programme of publications. From about this period detailed reports of surveys and excavations which were associated with the Inventory programme and financially supported by RCAHMS also began to appear in learned journals, most notably in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Other occasional publications included the following: two successive Reports (1966-71 and 1972-4) on the work of the newly-constituted NMRS; a souvenir booklet to accompany a major exhibition of the work of RCAHMS in 1975; a major monograph on the Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture of the West Highlands (1977), which was an offshoot of the Argyll Inventory; and Monuments of Industry (1986), a product of both Inventory and emergency recording work, the last two titles pointing the way towards a thematic approach to survey and publication. 2.3 Catalogues and Lists. Although the two NMRS Reports remained incomplete as a series, the general idea and purpose were later subsumed in the Annual Review (see below, 3.3.2). From 1976 until 1995, annual Catalogues of Aerial Photographs were instituted to provide basic data on aerial surveys undertaken by RCAHMS. These were followed by a series of Lists of Archaeological Sites and Monuments (1978-89), produced by a new rapid survey programme and issued by RCAHMS. Both the Catalogues and the Lists first appeared as simple typescripts produced in-house, but demand for the Lists quickly led to them being published in typeset printed form. The last in the series of 29 Lists appeared in 1989; the printed Catalogues have been superseded by an ORACLE-based search mechanism, which is available via the RCAHMS website. 2.4 Popular Guides. Another by-product of the Argyll Inventory series was the guide to the monuments of Iona which was first published by HMSO in 1983 and was re-published in a new, revised edition in 1995. Apart from Images of Scotland (1993), the result of a request on the part of HMSO, a few ‘popular’ titles have subsequently arisen out of other programmes, most notably in Topographical Survey work, but the greatest effort to present RCAHMS (and other) material to a wider audience was undertaken outside the mainstream work and channelled into a series of regional guides to the monuments and buildings of Scotland, sponsored and supported in kind by RCAHMS, and prepared for publication by HMSO by a team of individual authors under the general editorship of Anna Ritchie. First published in eight volumes in 1985-7, this Exploring Scotland’s Heritage series was sufficiently successful for HMSO to undertake the publication of a second, nine-volume edition a decade later. 2.5 New Directions 2.5.1 In 1985-6 it was decided that Argyll would be the last of the traditional county Inventories to be produced, and that henceforth archaeological and architectural recording would be undertaken as two distinct programmes, both concentrating on areas and themes not adequately covered in the archive and database and both aiming to produce summary publications at frequent intervals and in accessible form. These restructured programmes of survey and publication were coupled with a redefinition of the concept of the ‘inventory’, not as a finite series of published volumes, but as a body of information that makes up the archive and database. Changes in the nature, form and content of RCAHMS publication, particularly in its relationship to the ‘fuller’ survey and record, followed from these organisational changes, and the additional tasks of Industrial and Afforestable Land Survey were absorbed into this new framework. 2.5.2 The KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock review of the Royal Commissions on Ancient and Historical Monuments in England, Scotland and Wales in 1987-8 concluded (Section 6.11) that there was a continuing need for publication but that it should be: ‘bound up with future policy on communications and dissemination. This policy needs to be worked out by all affected parties, and not just the Royal Commissions. We envisage publication playing a less dominant rôle than in the past ..., but such publications that are agreed on will have to meet a clearly identified market and meet high commercial standards of production.’ The future rôle of publication was further defined (Section 9.13): ‘If, as we believe, the raison d’être of a project is no longer necessarily publication of the results, the purpose of Commission publication needs rethinking. We believe that the rôle of publication will be to stimulate interest and awareness of the richer data that are available in the NMR and to develop understanding of buildings and monuments. Publication will become a secondary rather than a primary activity. Defining a publication policy with the right elements of attracting interest in the database and supplying information which only the Royal Commissions can reasonably provide in published form, will not be easy. Nor will the retention of a coherent publishing image, when output may range from short-run specialist volumes to more general interest surveys. The most important points are: - that the effort put into publication should not distort the surveying and recording activities, and - that publication policy must dovetail in with the publishing policies of sponsoring departments ..., which should also be clarified. It is conceivable that these bodies, with a more explicit marketing role, will have a clearer conception of the market and be able to advise the Commissions on what are intended to be popular works... .’ 2.6 Technical Developments. The organisational changes of the 1980s coincided with the beginnings of computerisation of the NMRS, initially through the creation of an archaeological database and subsequently by the computerisation of the architectural records, now integrated in one system. The need to assimilate records in a computerised form made possible both a much closer integration of survey work and records management, and new approaches to the assembly of textual matter. The introduction and gradual spread of word-processing facilities assisted all aspects of this process, and Buildings of St Kilda (1988), as well as being the first RCAHMS book in A4 format, was also the first to be prepared and presented to the publisher in its entirety in word-processed form. The rapid and extensive developments in information technology - and the accompanying harmonisation of systems and software - which took place in RCAHMS from 1991 onwards provided the necessary platform for the transfer of material by disk and electronic means, revolutionising all areas of RCAHMS operation, including publication. RCAHMS developed ways of collecting measured survey and mapping data electronically in the field and transmitting it through specialised software into a range of graphic and geographic outputs for storage in digital form in a Geographic Information System (GIS) application which was linked to the database - and hence available for publication use. The later development of an image-scanning service for photographs also meant that by 1996 the desk-top publishing (DTP) facility, first acquired by RCAHMS in 1992, could be fully extended beyond the layout of text to effect a full printing or electronic transfer of a publication, complete with maps, drawings and photographs in place. 2.7 The rôle of publication. During the past decade, RCAHMS has accepted and successfully implemented almost all of the recommendations of the KPMG Report (2.5.2), of which this publication policy statement is one. Fully in line with those recommendations, RCAHMS has shifted the main thrust of its work to the enhancement of its archive and database and subordinated its survey operations to that end, but publication, albeit on a very different basis and utilising electronic media that could not have been envisaged in 1987-8, remains a primary corporate activity. External circumstances have dictated that a public body such as RCAHMS should deliberately seek to increase public awareness of its rôle and usefulness, and to generate income. The new Royal Warrant issued in 1992 authorised the promotion of ‘the public use of information available in the National Monuments Record of Scotland by all appropriate means’. In 1997 RCAHMS attained charitable status on the grounds of its public educational rôle, areas in which publication makes a crucial and substantial contribution. 3. TYPES OF PUBLICATION 3.1 General 3.1.1 This section describes the form and purpose of the different types of conventional publication currently produced by RCAHMS, ranging from books through to leaflets and exhibitions. It also refers to the publication of articles and books with which RCAHMS has an indirect association. The publications generated by RCAHMS are in A4 format, unless otherwise stated. 3.1.2 The publication-types listed here are all paper-based. Although RCAHMS occasionally uses audio and video tape as recording media, which remain available for archival reference, it has not yet elected to publish such material, largely because of the time-consuming editorial processes involved. See below, Section 4, for Web publication. 3.1.3 The distinction between the categories is not as clear-cut as the list might suggest, particularly between books, reports and catalogues. Broadly speaking, the books sub-section comprises mainly those major works for which an external publisher has wholly or partly assumed responsibility for production and distribution, whilst reports and catalogues consist mainly of those works which RCAHMS itself has produced and published, either unilaterally or in partnership with another body or agency. 3.1.4 For the historical evolution of some of these publications see Section 2, and for the programmes and projects to which these publications relate see the current Corporate Plan and Operational Statement. In general, RCAHMS publications are intended to serve the needs of two broad, and sometimes inter-related, groups of users: on the one hand, works of reference are aimed principally at a specialist, professional market; on the other hand, general or popular works are designed to provide information about, and to stimulate further interest in, Scotland’s built heritage among the public at large. 3.2 Books and monographs 3.2.1 The publications embraced within this general category vary in approach, emphasis and content, reflecting the nature of the subject-matter and the programmes and projects out of which they have arisen. On the one hand, archaeological publications, particularly those concerned with entire landscapes, present a synthesis of the survey and recording work that has been undertaken and only provide site gazetteers that act as indexes to the detailed site-records that are available for reference in the archive and database. Some architectural publications, on the other hand, particularly those concerned with thematic records of particular classes of building, incorporate a short introductory synthesis but the bulk of the volume is taken up with summary descriptions and analyses of individual buildings, or groups of buildings, in a gazetteer section. Other, generally smaller architectural publications, particularly those describing towns and cities, adopt a more discursive approach and correspond more closely to the archaeological synthesis. 3.2.2 In all cases, the enhancement of the archive and database and publicity for their use, remain the primary objectives of publication. These major volumes in themselves, however, serve the important dual purpose of demonstrating the standard-setting role of RCAHMS to a national and international audience and providing benchmarks for peer review. 3.2.3 Archaeology. The archaeological publications of the type considered above (3.2.1) form a normal part of the project-specification for the large area-surveys of monuments and landscapes undertaken by the Archaeology Division. Publication of a synthesis of the results of such survey presents the material within the broader framework of the archaeological landscape, demonstrating the value of integrated field recording programmes, coupled with the assessment of the impact of patterns of survival and destruction on the character of the archaeological record, and offering the opportunity to show comparable material held within the NMRS across a wider area. Examples of these publications include South-east Perth (1994) and Eastern Dumfriesshire (1997), published by HMSO/TSO, Well Shelterd and Watered (2001), published by RCAHMS, and But the Walls Remained (2002), published jointly by RCAHMS and HS. 3.2.4 Architecture and Industry. The project-specification for systematic surveys of classes or areas of significant buildings and monuments undertaken by Thematic or Strategic Architectural Survey also includes publication as a normal outcome, exemplified by Tolbooths and Town-houses: Civic Architecture in Scotland to 1833 (1996) and Early Medieval Sculpture in the West Highlands and Islands (2001). Publication in book or monograph form is not routinely envisaged as a by-product of other survey-programmes, but where circumstances exist or opportunities have been created (for example, through sponsorship or partnership arrangements), surveys of particular categories of threatened monument, or individual case-studies, may be taken forward as occasional publications, generally with RCAHMS as publisher (e.g. Brick, Tile and Fireclay Industries in Scotland (1993), Explosives in the Service of Man: Ardeer and the Nobel Heritage (1996) and Cardross Seminary: Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and the Architecture of Postwar Catholicism (1997)). Photographic surveys and NMRS record-holdings relating to Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen have also provided a basis for publications and accompanying exhibitions, hence Tenements & Towers: Glasgow Working-Class Housing 1890-1990 (1990), Dundee on Record, Images of the Past (1992), both of squared A4 format, and Aberdeen on Record (1997), all published by HMSO/TSO. All of these publications have placed considerable emphasis on the joint dissemination of NMRS records and those of other relevant institutions, and the two last-mentioned titles also take account of archaeological records. 3.3 RCAHMS Annual Review. Since 1990 RCAHMS has undertaken the regular annual production and publication of an illustrated report on the full range of its activities, issued each October (when it serves as the ‘agenda’ for the annual meeting of the Consultative User Panel) for the 12-month period up to the end of the previous March. RCAHMS Annual Review, Monuments on Record (since 2002-3 Annual Review) has been designed to promote and publicise the many different aspects of RCAHMS work: describing, through short essays, current initiatives being undertaken; providing a selected list of accessions to the NMRS in a format that will allow the updating of the Guide to the Collections at a future date; presenting recent work of all survey sections, highlighting areas of particular significance; serving as a convenient show-case for graphic and photographic material and techniques, now in full colour; and demonstrating RCAHMS’s commitment to providing effective value for money through the publication of a Financial Summary in relation to the Key Performance Indicators and Output Targets. A copy is lodged annually in the library of the Scottish Executive. 3.4 Reports 3.4.1 The nature of much of the survey and record-collecting activity undertaken by RCAHMS is suited to a programme of selective, occasional publication in which particularly significant new information, interpretations or approaches can be presented in summary but well-illustrated form. In the Afforestable Land Survey programme, for example, which operated from 1989 to 1998, areas of archaeological landscape which have yielded particularly important results have been highlighted in a series of eight illustrated reports of this kind Archaeology Division, in conjunction with Historic Scotland, has also published four reports associated with the Historic Land-use Assessment programme: The Historic Landscape of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs (2000), The Historic Landscape of the Cairngorms (2001), The Historic Land-use Assessment of the Solway Coast National Scenic Areas (2002), The Historic Land-use Assessment of Wester Ross (2003). 3.4.2 A short report summarising the progress of the Archaeology Division’s survey programmes and listing the principal archaeological accessions to the NMRS is also prepared annually for the Council for Scottish Archaeology for publication in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. A similar report for the work of the Buildings Division and the architectural collections section of the NMRS is published in the Journal and Magazine of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland. The material in these reports is arranged mainly by local authority areas. 3.5 Catalogues 3.5.1 Reference catalogues and handlists of selected classes of archive and database material are made available wherever it is seen that, within available resources, their publication will enhance and facilitate public use of the collections, drawing attention to particular types of material and easing consultation for user and staff alike. In addition to the annual Catalogue of Aerial Photographs (1976-95), RCAHMS has issued catalogues relating to Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey 1977-85 (1989), Surveys of Postwar Buildings (1992), the Scottish Power Collections (1994), Pictish Symbol Stones (1994; reprinted 1999), and Scotland from the Air, 1939-49, volumes 1 (1999) and 2 (n.d.). 3.5.2. These catalogues are now generally enhanced with selective illustrations and are usually produced as in-house publications, an exception to this general rule being the catalogue which was published by HMSO in squared A4 format to accompany a major exhibition celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the NMRS: A Guide to the Collections: NMRS 1941-1991 (1991). Additions to this Guide, arranged in similar format, are listed in the Annual Review each year, and may form the basis of a future revised edition. 3.6 Broadsheets. Where there is an identifiable popular demand, marketing outlet, and some form of financial support for a highly-illustrated, poster-style presentation, RCAHMS issues survey material in a broadsheet format, folding out from A5 to A2. Initially confined to the exhibition of Afforestable Land Survey work but now extended to include programmes of work from the Buildings and Archaeology Divisions, broadsheets such as those relating to The Mallaig Railway (2002), Eigg (2003), Early Medieval Sculpture in Angus Council Museums (2003) and St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh (2003) have taken RCAHMS survey material into schools, into the hands of hill-walkers and naturalists, thus helping to place RCAHMS holdings in a very wide context. Other possible formats for the popular presentation of material are being explored. 3.7 Policy Statements and Technical Papers. RCAHMS has periodically issued a series of policy statements covering the full range of its major activities such as Records-Collecting, Survey and Recording, Public Services and Publication, together with the annual Corporate Plan, all produced in-house in word-processed and generally un-illustrated form and destined, when the drafts are approved, to be placed on the RCAHMS website. Technical papers which are intended to set standards or explain methodological approaches, such as Guidelines on the Preparation of Excavation Archives, Archaeological Documentary Archives, or the collection of essays by RCAHMS staff issued under the title of Recording Scotland’s Historic Buildings, are also prepared in this same basic style. RCAHMS publications in this category do not usually bear ISBN or ISSN numbers. For internal managerial and staff use, RCAHMS continues to update its Staff Handbook and produces an annual Operational Statement. 3.8 Leaflets. Under the general title of Recording Scotland’s Heritage, RCAHMS has designed and published (in 1993) a set of glossy, colour-illustrated leaflets in A5 format which summarily describe the activity of each major Survey and Record section, all brought together, if required, into a single folder. These are subject to periodic revision, and future leaflets will be produced as required. In addition, the User Guide to NMRS provides a clear, concise introduction to the facilities and services provided by the archive and database. 3.9 Maps. In addition to its role in checking revisions of maps and ensuring that new data appropriate for national mapping purposes are made available to the Ordnance Survey (OS) as fully and as rapidly as possible, RCAHMS collaborates with the OS in the publication of historic maps such as Ancient Britain (1990) and Roman Britain (1991). This is a revenue-earning activity, closely associated with school curriculum requirements, and the information incorporated in these maps reaches a wide audience in a readily understood format. In collaboration with the Lighthouse, a pilot series of city architecture maps is in preparation; the first to be published was Inner Edinburgh (2003), followed by Inner Glasgow (2004). 3.10 Exhibitions. Publication through exhibitions enables RCAHMS to take information to specific venues, usually as an accompaniment or follow-up to the launch of a book or report, but sometimes also as part of a general publicity campaign, taking advantage of the facilities which conferences and other gatherings provide. The RCAHMS library itself forms an appropriate home venue for some themes. In some cases, the preparation of a touring exhibition, such as the World of Worship, prepared with the aid of a Millennium Fund grant may be considered one of the principal means of disseminating the results of survey and recording activities. Combining an exhibition with the compilation of a broadsheet, for example, ensured that the results of the Muirkirk Afforestable Land Survey became both locally appreciated and widely known within the region concerned. RCAHMS exhibition material is maintained in store in such a manner that the flexible re-use of subject-matter for different purposes remains possible for a period after the initial display. ‘Exploring Your Heritage’ is a recent HLF-supported project undertaken by RCAHMS which will consist of a travelling exhibition, booklet and web guide explaining how the information on the built heritage of Scotland and the collections held at RCAHMS can be used by a wide audience. 3.11 Articles in Learned Journals. RCAHMS gives financial support to the publication by staff through learned journals and monographs of the detailed results and interpretations of survey or record-gathering arising directly out of RCAHMS work. Such papers have the advantage of alerting both a wide and a specific body of peer-group users to significant discoveries, or to methodological approaches to survey and records management pioneered within RCAHMS, as well as assisting with staff development. Grants in support of the publication of other material, not necessarily prepared by RCAHMS staff, are also occasionally made where these are seen to meet RCAHMS objectives. However, dissemination of information through learned journals and other channels (see 7.4) incurs direct costs, and there may be a loss of direct editorial and design control. 3.12 Other Associated Publications. By offering discounted concessions or other material assistance in kind, RCAHMS also supports the publication of books, including those by members of staff, which will sufficiently fulfil the same aims as its own publications in making its resources better and more widely known, in creating the opportunity for the acquisition of further information and records, and, where possible, in bringing financial benefits to RCAHMS. The financial support of RCAHMS (see 5.1, 5.2.5, 7.4) is made subject to certain conditions and forms of acknowledgement, which may include display of the RCAHMS logo. Following the precedent set by collaboration with HMSO in the first Exploring Scotland’s Heritage series in 1985-7, RCAHMS has been associated with the Moubray House Publishing in the publication of The Forth Bridge, A Picture History (1990), with the RIAS in Scottish Architects’ Papers, a Source Book (1996), and with Edinburgh University Press in Scottish Country Houses 1600-1914 (1995), A History of Scottish Architecture from the Renaissance to the Present Day (1997) and the Archaeology of Argyll (1997). The association with RIAS was continued in 2003 with the preparation for publication by the Survey and Graphics section of a volume in the RIAS Architectural Guides series (Argyll and the Islands) and of a volume in the monograph series (James Salmon, Architect, 1873-1924). The aerial photographs collections of the NMRS were drawn heavily upon in the Malcolm Cant Publications volume Edinburgh From the Air (2003). 4. ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION 4.1 General. The World Wide Web (WWW) has become one of the main means by which information generated by RCAHMS is transmitted to the public. Initiatives in information dissemination are actively being developed by RCAHMS on its own behalf, as well as through high-profile collaborative projects, most notably those being conducted in association with the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN), of which RCAHMS is a founder-member, with the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) and with Historic Scotland and RCAHMW. As a direct or indirect result of these developments, RCAHMS will make possible a significant increase in the ‘publication’ of data and metadata (meaning, literally, data about data, or the information that is needed to communicate sensibly about information) in electronic form to the wider world. 4.2 Online publication 4.2.1 The WWW is the principal channel for reference catalogues, publicity material relating to the NMRS collections and public services, and for general information about the work of RCAHMS. 4.2.2 Pages on the WWW are used to enable text-based enquiries to be made remotely of the integrated NMRS database through the computer application known as CANMORE (Computer Application for National MOnument Record Enquiries), thus encouraging widespread public access while conserving staff effort within RCAHMS. 4.2.3 RCAHMS has developed its GIS applications for similar use (see above, 4.2.2), and CANMAP is a map-enabled web-based query system for CANMORE which allows searches for archaeological sites, monuments, buildings and maritime sites to be made. 4.2.4 With the gradual digitisation of its photographic collections, RCAHMS will, in 2004, add a significant number of digital images to what will be automatically available on screen. As a founder-member of SCRAN (with the Royal Museum of Scotland and the Scottish Museums Council), RCAHMS is committed, both through its own and others’ holdings, to the provision of digital images and records through which schools, museums and other educational bodies will be able to build up a teaching resource. 4.3 CD-ROMs and other distribution media. The digital images created for the SCRAN project will contribute to the compilation of multi-media CD-ROMs by third parties. Because maps, drawings and images are now being routinely generated in digital form (and, in some cases, stored on CDs), RCAHMS already has the capability of publishing CD-ROMs. In 1998 RCAHMS collaborated with the other Royal Commissions in England and Wales in the production of a trilingual commemorative CD-ROM, in English, Gaelic and Welsh, which was distributed to all schools in Scotland. 4.4 Relationship to traditional publication. Given that equipment required for electronic dissemination may remain unavailable or relatively inaccessible to many users or interested parties, both in the United Kingdom and (especially) abroad, and given also the limitations of on-screen use, traditional, that is, printed, forms of publication are likely to be needed for the foreseeable future. However, given also the relatively high costs of printed publication and the difficulties of obtaining such material (including publicity relating to RCAHMS), especially abroad, there is a cogent need for a combined approach, using electronic media for enhancing public awareness of our rôle and of the information that is available (see 4.2.1). There thus remains continuing scope and reason for both electronic and conventional publication, and RCAHMS policy is to make the different media complement and work for each other as effectively as possible. 5. COPYRIGHT AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5.1 Crown Copyright. All RCAHMS publications are Crown Copyright and a statement to that effect is included in every volume, in the form ‘Crown Copyright: RCAHMS (year)’. Permission to reproduce material from any RCAHMS publication, or from any part of its archive and database, must be sought from The Secretary and Curator, RCAHMS, John Sinclair House, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh, EH8 9NX (tel. 0131-662 1456, fax 0131-662 1477 or 0131-662 1499), through whom copies of photographs, digital images and drawings may be obtained. A fee is usually levied and an acknowledgement is required, in the form ‘© Crown Copyright: RCAHMS’ clearly shown. In cases where numerous RCAHMS images are to be reproduced, RCAHMS reserves the right to require that they are accompanied by the prominent display of the RCAHMS logo. Details of the availability of material (including illustration reference numbers) and how to seek permission to reproduce are included in every volume. Any doubts or queries should be referred to the Secretary, RCAHMS, as indicated above. 5.2 Acknowledgements 5.2.1 Other Copyright. The majority of the illustrations in RCAHMS publications will be Crown Copyright but in some instances material from its holdings or other sources will be used where the copyright or reproduction rights are held by another organisation or individual. In these cases, RCAHMS makes every reasonable effort to establish ownership and to obtain permission to reproduce, observing any appropriate fees and including any agreed acknowledgement. 5.2.2 Ordnance Survey Maps. The use of OS mapping in RCAHMS publications (printed and online) is subject to the conditions set out in the pan-government agreement, which also includes forms of acknowledgement. Exclusions to the agreement are detailed in the document; these may require individual licences to be sought from the OS, which may result the payment of a copyright fee to the OS. 5.2.3 Assistance and Cooperation. RCAHMS always acknowledges the assistance and cooperation it receives from individuals and institutions in the preparation of a publication or display. 5.2.4 RCAHMS Staff Contributions and Authorship. RCAHMS publications and exhibitions are essentially the products of teamwork, and the specific and relative contributions of RCAHMS staff are duly acknowledged. It is, therefore, normal practice in RCAHMS publications for authorship to be attributed to RCAHMS alone on the cover and title page. Exceptionally, where the publication is predominantly the work of one member of staff, that person may be named as author on the title page and/or cover at the discretion of Commissioners. 5.2.5 Other Publications by RCAHMS Staff. Articles by RCAHMS staff in learned journals and similar publications (see 3.11, 3.12) will normally appear under the name of the author(s). In cases where the publication of those articles has been supported financially by RCAHMS, they will, in addition to the Crown Copyright conditions set out above (5.1), be accompanied by a form of acknowledgement which clearly and prominently records that the material has been published with the financial support of RCAHMS and, where appropriate, will also be accompanied by the display of the RCAHMS logo. 5.2.6 External Contributions and Authorship. In all cases where external authors contribute to RCAHMS publications, there will be a written statement, agreed in advance by Commissioners, as to how that contribution will be acknowledged. Likewise, in all cases where an external publisher undertakes to publish a work prepared by RCAHMS staff, the form of author attribution will be agreed by Commissioners in advance of any publication contract or agreement. The use of RCAHMS images generally in external publications, exhibitions and multi-media displays is governed by the Crown Copyright conditions set out in 5.1 above. 6. SELECTION CRITERIA 6.1 General 6.1.1 For the reasons set out in Section 1, a public information service of the kind operated by RCAHMS must engage in the promotion and publication of its holdings, but, as in other areas of its activity, resources dictate that publication should be on a selective basis. 6.1.2 In all RCAHMS operations publication is a discretionary matter, and certain criteria have to be applied in a number of inter-related matters: the selection of subjects suitable for publication; the assessment of the scope and level of treatment to be accorded; and decisions on whether to publish in-house or to offer the material to a commercial publisher. 6.1.3 Questions of cost, which underlie all levels of selection, are considered separately in 1.7 and Section 7. 6.2 Publication projects. As described in the Corporate Plan, the principal objective of archaeological field survey is to carry out a programme of systematic area surveys of archaeological sites, the results of which are transferred to the archive and database, with a synthesis of the data prepared for publication in an appropriate format. Strategic architectural survey undertakes systematic surveys of classes or areas of significant and threatened buildings and monuments and likewise may produce published syntheses of the material which are lodged in the archive and database. The selection of subject-matter and the formulation of the project design and timetable for both of these programmes thus automatically take full account of the publication requirements, whilst fully recognising that publication should not unduly delay transmission of survey material to the archive and database. 6.3 Other Subjects for Publication 6.3.1 In the selection of potential subjects for publication arising out of all survey and record-collecting operations, due consideration is given to the significance of the subject (that is, is publication of the material merely desirable or is it essential?) and the special and timeous contribution to knowledge which RCAHMS can make by its presentation (that is, should this material be published now and, if so, in what form?). The likely current and future use and reference value of the material is also assessed, and the availability of sponsorship or partnership arrangements, or other forms of external assistance (e.g. the making available of appropriate material for editing and publication by RCAHMS, as in the case of Strath Don), is taken into account. 6.3.2 Where RCAHMS is itself invited by a commercial publisher to undertake a specific commission (e.g. HMSO and Images of Scotland), the decision for or against acceptance will be largely related to resource-costs but will also take account of the value of the publicity, the fact that the material might otherwise remain unpublished, and the quid pro quo agreements with the publisher. 6.4 Scope and Level of Treatment. Decisions on subject-matter will generally also determine the scale and type of publication that is most appropriate, generally narrowing down to a choice of either relatively small- or large-scale works of reference, or one with some form of ‘popularising’ treatment. At a more detailed level, the proposal has also to be assessed in terms of its likely scale and degree of complexity, establishing, for example, how much additional research might be required, what the referencing and indexing requirements are, and whether the illustrations, especially the maps, may need special preparation, all of which will have a bearing on the timescale and project management (see Section 8). 6.5 Method of Publication. Whether it may be classed as a work of reference or of a ‘popular’ or ‘trade’ category, the nature and scope of the proposed volume will generally determine whether it should be published in-house or offered to a commercial publisher (whose decision to publish will naturally be made on grounds of commercial viability). Particularly so far as reference or conventional catalogue material is concerned, the in-house option may also include electronic publication through the WWW, for which the usual standards of preparation, design and layout will be required. Conventional in-house publication, including that undertaken for basic, un-illustrated reports, will additionally require a full production schedule involving assessment of print-run and tendering for reproduction, as well as post-publication distribution and marketing. Commercial publication usually avoids most of these stages, but, as in the case of major books described above (6.2), editorial and technical control over the design and layout stages are generally deemed essential. 7. COST ASSESSMENT 7.1 General 7.1.1 Preparation of material for publication, whether through conventional or electronic media, is an exacting, resource-intensive discipline, even for the most basic works of reference. 7.1.2 Recent advances in DTP and in the quality of laser-printing have given RCAHMS, like many other bodies, greater opportunities and potential for in-house publication, a process which has led to a corresponding increase in the resource-costs involved in preparation, storage, distribution and marketing. Desk-top publishing (DTP) has undoubtedly enhanced local control over design and layout and considerably reduced the cost and time of the final reproduction stage. 7.1.3 Given the nature of its dissemination needs, RCAHMS accepts that these costs are an appropriate investment of its resources. But, on cost grounds, there are advantages to be gained in pursuing a mixed approach to publication, and, where possible, transferring to, or sharing with, a commercial publisher, the direct and indirect costs of the production of a book, or seeking sponsorship to redress any adverse financial balance. 7.2 Resource costs 7.2.1 The operation of the Survey and Graphics section, and the authorship and editorial roles associated with the main publication programmes (see 6.2 above), represent those fixed indirect or resource costs which RCAHMS considers essential for the support of a core publication programme. Those resources involved in the preparation of material for publication are regularly monitored by the programme committees, while the disposition of publication production resources is controlled by the Publication Committee, which is responsible for the ordered throughput of RCAHMS publications (see 8.2, below). 7.2.2 Variable resource-costs, in terms of staff, time, storage and running expenses, are incurred in the selection, preparation and post-publication administration of other publication projects, especially those produced in-house, and these activities have to be balanced against the heavy and unpredictable demands on staff which other services make, particularly those concerned with public enquiries and emergency recording. These crucially important factors underlie all decisions on choice, method and timetabling of publications. 7.3 Direct costs 7.3.1 Overall project costs may include the travel and subsistence required for survey and record-collecting operations and the purchase of relevant photocopies, and technical materials. These costs must be directly attributable to the special preparation of text and illustrations, and to the work of origination and production. 7.3.2 For in-house publications with print-runs in excess of a few dozen, the reproduction and binding costs have also to be met through a formal tendering procedure. In accordance with standard government practice, RCAHMS either invites three contractors to tender, and will normally accept the lowest tender, or makes use of the Scottish Executive draw-down contract service where this is advantageous. Where a publisher approaches RCAHMS for a commissioned publication the normal tendering rules may not apply, but those rules must be applied in the written demonstration of the advantages, financial or otherwise, that will accrue to RCAHMS. The size of the print-run of any in-house publication is based on a careful balanced assessment of the unit-cost in relation to the likely market - with a view to dispersal of all copies within a year or so. 7.3.3 With commercial publication RCAHMS does not bear any direct costs beyond those incurred in the preparation stages leading up to the submission of material in agreed formats, but royalties accruing to RCAHMS always remain to be negotiated with the publisher. 7.4 Financial support for other publications. In some circumstances, publishable material that has arisen directly or indirectly out of survey or record-collecting operations conducted by RCAHMS, may be more appropriately, conveniently and cost-effectively published through learned journals or monographs (see 3.10). In response to an application for funds in such cases, RCAHMS may offer the publishing body financial subventions of up to 75% of the costs of publication of the relevant material in accordance with the conditions set out above (Section 5). 8. MANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLICATION PROCESS 8.1 General. The selection, management and monitoring of publications follow the normal corporate planning and project management procedures applied by RCAHMS across the broad range of its operations. 8.2 Approval and Monitoring Procedures. Preliminary proposals for publications and exhibitions, backed by outline specifications set out on a standard form, are considered by the relevant discipline management committee - Archaeology, Buildings or NMRS - and by the Publications Committee. If the proposals are considered suitable, they are taken forward to a meeting of the relevant programme committee which includes Commissioner members. If they fulfil the selection criteria and are approved, they are passed to the Publications Committee which determines the resources and timetable for their production. Formally erected into projects (with project codes), they are also incorporated in the following year’s estimates and Operational Statement. The quarterly meetings of the relevant committees, reporting to plenary meetings of the Commission, thenceforward monitor the progress and quality of the material being prepared for publication, while the Publication Committee continues to oversee production resources and timetables. 8.3 Project Management. Each publication or exhibition has a project manager, normally the editor or principal author of the work in question. Annex A sets out the headings for the editorial notes and conventions which the project manager is responsible for applying to RCAHMS publications. The project manager is also responsible for reporting on the progress and resourcing of the project under the terms laid down by the programme committee, and for liaison both with the commercial publisher and with the RCAHMS Publications Manager in the Graphics Unit. 8.4 Production, Design and Layout. Approved projects, including exhibitions, are brought together from the different disciplines into a single production work-programme for the Graphics Unit and Publications Manager. The timetable and priorities for publication and display work are periodically reviewed, and, where necessary, re-ordered by the Publications Committee. Standard templates for the layouts of different forms of publication are currently being considered. 8.5 Publication and Post-Publication Arrangements. Arrangements for pre- and post-publication publicity, including liaison with a commercial publisher on possible launches and the production of printed and website information, are normally made by the project manager, in association with the Secretariat and Public Services section. For in-house publications the project manager, the programme committees and the Publications Committee will advise on questions of print-run, pricing and distribution of copies, including review copies. 9. MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION 9.1 Approaches to marketing. Publications of all categories demand some degree of publicity and a list describing the contents of all available RCAHMS publications is available both locally and on the WWW. However, beyond these basic advertisements and the services of any book distributor, the diverse nature and subject-matter of RCAHMS publications require approaches that are tailored to suit the different categories of material, types of publication and likely markets. For example, broadsheets with strong local and popular appeal are best distributed through local Tourist Board, museum or library outlets, or bookshops in the relevant areas, while a monograph on a specialist architectural theme is more appropriately distributed through a central network, such as that operated by RIAS Bookshops. 9.2 Initial assessments. Marketing requirements are considered at the commencement of any publication project, particularly an in-house publication, and take account of the views of staff ultimately responsible for sales and distribution. The target audience is assessed, preparations are made for the design and costing of a flyer (doubling as an order form), the creation of a poster, possible accompanying exhibition panels, press release, an entry for the WWW, and distribution-lists of review copies, potential purchasers and those entitled to complimentary copies. The desirability and cost-effectiveness of a launch are also considered in outline at an early stage, reviewing its possible form, timing and venue. 9.3 Publication date. Intensive marketing will commence in the period prior to the known or forecasted date of publication with the distribution of flyers to customers on RCAHMS and other mailing lists, possibly offering pre-publication discounts, and with the organisation of poster displays at bookshops, conferences etc. Advance notification of publication, possibly replicating the flyer, will also be given on the Internet. Distribution-lists of review and complimentary copies will be finalised, details of a launch, if there is to be one, are circulated normally at least one month prior to the event. Advertising literature will, wherever possible, re-use the material used for the design of the cover and principal contents of the publication. 9.4 Continuing sales 9.4.1 As noted above, a publications list, regularly updated, is to be made widely available and distributed to users, and the design of a full Publications Catalogue with illustrations and brief summary text of each volume or series, is planned. Lists of recent publications are also advertised in the Annual Review. 9.4.2 A sales point within the reception area of John Sinclair House has been developed, and all current publications are available for sale to customers during office opening hours. The centralisation of sales has enabled improved methods of stock control to be introduced, and a full range of RCAHMS publications is available within the premises. Flexible payment methods, involving the use of credit cards, are available. 9.4.3 Other suitable, cost-effective outlets for sales of RCAHMS publications will continue to be exploited through the Scottish Publishers Association and elsewhere. 9.5 Current and future trends. RCAHMS will continue to adopt a flexible, cost-effective approach to in-house and commercial publication of printed books, and it will remain firm RCAHMS policy to publish its information as cheaply as is consistent with acceptable standards of reproduction. Each publication proposal will thus continue to be judged on its merits, balancing all the direct costs and staffing implications of in-house publication - printing, binding, storing, marketing and distribution - against the advantages of total control over design and retail costs. Sponsorship, subscription and/or partnership arrangements will be actively sought in all appropriate cases in order to meet or alleviate those costs. Works will be offered to commercial publishers only on the basis of a competitive tendering process. At this stage, it is impossible to predict exactly how the exercise of these principles will work out in practice but commercially-published works are likely to constitute a minority of RCAHMS publications. ABBREVIATIONS ADS Archaeology Data Service CANMORE Computer Application for National MOnument Record Enquiries CBA Council for British Archaeology CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory CSA Council for Scottish Archaeology DPI Dots per Inch DTP Desktop Publishing DVD Digital Video Disks GIS Geographic Information System HMSO Her Majesty’s Stationery Office IFA Institute of Field Archaeologists ISBN International Standard Book Number ISSN International Standard Serial Number NMRS National Monuments Record of Scotland OS Ordnance Survey PC Personal Computer RCAHMS Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland RIAS Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland SCRAN Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network TIFF Tagged Image File Format TSO The Stationery Office WWW World Wide Web ANNEX LIST OF RCAHMS PUBLICATIONS (including ephemera and web publications) June 2004 GENERAL Recording Scotland’s Heritage: the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS, 1975) Images of Scotland (HMSO, 1993) An Assessment of Scotland’s Sites and Monuments Records (RCAHMS 1999) Annual Reviews Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1990-1 (RCAHMS, 1991) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1991-2 (RCAHMS, 1992) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1992-3 (RCAHMS, 1993) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1993-4 (RCAHMS, 1994) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1994-5 (RCAHMS, 1995) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1995-6 (RCAHMS, 1996) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1996-7 (RCAHMS, 1997) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1997-8 (RCAHMS, 1998) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1998-9 (RCAHMS, 1999) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1999-2000 (RCAHMS, 2000) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 2000-1 (RCAHMS, 2001) Monuments on Record, Annual Review 2001-2 (RCAHMS, 2002) Annual Review 2002-3 (RCAHMS, 2003) Policy Documents Survey and Recording (RCAHMS, 2004) Publication (RCAHMS, 2004) Collecting (RCAHMS, 2004) Public Services (RCAHMS, 2004) Education (RCAHMS, 2004) NMRS General National Monuments Record of Scotland, Report 1966-71 (RCAHMS, 1972) National Monuments Record of Scotland, Report 1972-74 (RCAHMS, 1975) NMRS Jubilee Catalogue 1941?1991: A Guide to the Collections (HMSO, 1991) Forays into Fife. Essays presented to Jim Davidson on the occasion of his retiral from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS, 1991) National Monuments Record of Scotland Colouring Book (RCAHMS, 1995) The Sir Francis Tress Barry Collection: a catalogue of material held in the NMRS (RCAHMS, 1998) Scotland from the Air 1939-49, vol. 1: Catalogue of the Luftwaffe Photographs in the NMRS (RCAHMS, 1999) Scotland from the Air 1939-49, vol. 2: Catalogue of the RAF World War II Photos in the NMRS (RCAHMS, 2000) Leaflets John Douglas, William Adam’s Rival? (RCAHMS, 1989) Mapping the Monuments (RCAHMS, 1991) Drawings and Watercolours from the National Monuments Record of Scotland (RCAHMS, 1991) National Monuments Record of Scotland, Exhibition of New Accessions 1991-1992 (RCAHMS, 1992) Recording Scotland’s Heritage (RCAHMS, 1993) Watercolours by R W Billings (1813-1874) (RCAHMS/Aberdeen City Council, 1996) COUNTY INVENTORIES First Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick (HMSO, 1909) Second Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Sutherland (HMSO, 1911) Third Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Caithness (HMSO, 1911) Fourth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in Galloway, Volume I, County of Wigtown (HMSO, 1912) Fifth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in Galloway, Volume II, County of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright (HMSO, 1914) Sixth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick (revised issue, HMSO, 1915) Seventh Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Dumfries (HMSO, 1920) Eighth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of East Lothian (HMSO, 1924) Ninth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles (HMSO, 1928) Tenth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the Counties of Midlothian and West Lothian (HMSO, 1929) Eleventh Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the Counties of Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan (HMSO, 1933) Twelfth Report with an Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Orkney and Shetland, Volume I, Report and Introduction, Volume II, Inventory of Orkney, Volume III, Inventory of Shetland (HMSO, 1946) An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of the City of Edinburgh (with the Thirteenth Report of the Commission, HMSO, 1951) An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Roxburghshire (with the Fourteenth Report of the Commission, 2 volumes, HMSO, 1956) An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Selkirkshire (with the Fifteenth Report of the Commission, HMSO, 1957) Stirlingshire. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments (with the Sixteenth Report of the Commission, 2 volumes, HMSO, 1963) Peeblesshire. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments (with the Seventeenth Report of the Commission, 2 volumes, HMSO, 1967) Argyll. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 1, Kintyre (with the Eighteenth Report of the Commission, HMSO, 1971) Argyll. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 2, Lorn (with the Nineteenth Report of the Commission, HMSO, 1975) Lanarkshire. An Inventory of the Prehistoric and Roman Monuments (with the Twentieth Report of the Commission, HMSO, 1978) Argyll. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 3, Mull, Tiree, Coll and Tiree (excluding the early medieval and later monuments of Iona) (with the Twenty-first Report of the Commission, HMSO, 1980) Argyll. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 4, Iona (with the Twenty-second Report of the Commission, HMSO, 1982) Argyll. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 5, Islay, Jura, Colonsay and Oronsay (with the Twenty- third Report of the Commission, HMSO, 1984) Argyll. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 6, Mid Argyll and Cowal Prehistoric and Early Medieval Monuments (with the Twenty-fourth Report of the Commission, HMSO, 1988) Argyll. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 7, Mid Argyll and Cowal Medieval and Later Monuments (HMSO, 1992) Inventory Extracts Colonsay and Oronsay: an inventory of the monuments extracted from Argyll Volume 5 (RCAHMS, 1995) Argyll Castles in the care of Historic Scotland. Extracts from RCAHMS Inventories of Argyll Volumes 1, 2 and 7 (RCAHMS/Historic Scotland, 1997) Kilmartin: Prehistoric and Early Historic Monuments (RCAHMS, 1999, second edition 2000) ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY Archaeological Sites and Monuments Series 1. Clackmannan District and Falkirk District, Central Region (RCAHMS, 1978) 2. Cumbernauld and Kilsyth District, Strathkelvin District, Strathclyde Region (RCAHMS, 1978, revised edition, 1982) 3. Dumbarton District, Clydebank District, Bearsden and Milngavie District, Strathclyde Region (RCAHMS, 1978) 4. Lunan Valley and the Montrose Basin, Angus District, Tayside Region (RCAHMS, 1978) 5. Nairn District, Highland Region (RCAHMS, 1978) 6. Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region (RCAHMS, 1979) 7. Stirling District, Central Region (RCAHMS, 1979) 8. North?east Inverness, Inverness District, Highland Region (RCAHMS, 1979) 9. The Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region (RCAHMS, 1979) 10. Berwickshire District, Borders Region (RCAHMS, 1980) 11. Sanday and North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands Area (compiled by R G Lamb, RCAHMS, 1980) 12. Upper Eskdale, Annandale and Eskdale District, Dumfries and Galloway Region (RCAHMS, 1980) 13. Ewesdale and Lower Eskdale, Annandale and Eskdale District, Dumfries and Galloway Region (RCAHMS, 1981) 14. South Carrick, Kyle and Carrick District, Strathclyde Region (RCAHMS, 1981) 15. South Kincardine, Kincardine and Deeside District, Grampian Region (RCAHMS, 1982) 16. Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre, Orkney Islands Area (compiled by R G Lamb, RCAHMS, 1982) 17. North Carrick, Kyle and Carrick District, Strathclyde Region (RCAHMS, 1983) 18. Central Angus, 1 (Prehistoric and Roman), Angus District, Tayside Region (compiled by J R Sherriff, RCAHMS, 1983) 19. Papa Westray and Westray, Orkney Islands Area (compiled by R G Lamb, RCAHMS, 1983) 20. Rhum, Lochaber, Highland Region (RCAHMS, 1983) 21. North Kincardine and Deeside District, Grampian Region (RCAHMS, 1984) 22. Central Angus, 2 (Medieval and Later), Angus District, Tayside Region (compiled by J R Sherriff, RCAHMS, 1984) 23. Eday and Stronsay, Orkney Islands Area (compiled by R G Lamb, RCAHMS, 1984) 24. West Rhins, Wigtown District, Dumfries and Galloway Region (RCAHMS, 1985) 25. North Kyle and Carrick District, Strathclyde Region (RCAHMS, 1985) 26. East Rhins, Wigtown District, Dumfries and Galloway Region (RCAHMS, 1987) 27. Shapinsay, St Andrews and Deerness, Orkney Islands Area (compiled by R G Lamb, RCAHMS, 1988) 28. Midlothian (Prehistoric to Early Historic), Midlothian District, Lothian Region (RCAHMS, 1988) 29. Hoy and Waas, Orkney Islands Area (compiled by R G Lamb, RCAHMS, 1989) Field Survey North-east Perth: an archaeological landscape (HMSO, 1990) South-east Perth: an archaeological landscape (HMSO, 1994) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape (TSO, 1997) Historic Landuse Assessment (HS, 1999) The Historic Landscape of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs (RCAHMS and HS, 2000) The Historic Landscape of the Cairngorms (RCAHMS and HS, 2001) ‘Well Shelterd and Watered’: Menstrie Glen, a farming landscape near Stirling (RCAHMS, 2001) ‘But the Walls Remained’ (RCAHMS and HS, 2002) The Historic Land-use Assessment of the Solway Coast National Scenic Areas (RCAHMS and HS, 2002) The Historic Land-use Assessment of Wester Ross (RCAHMS and HS, 2003) Afforestable Land Survey Reports Pre-afforestation Survey 1989 (RCAHMS, 1989) Afforestable Land Survey, Volume 1, 1989-91 (RCAHMS, 1992) Knoydart: an archaeological survey (RCAHMS, 1992) Waternish, Skye and Lochalsh District, Highland Region: an archaeological survey (RCAHMS, 1993) Strath of Kildonan: an archaeological survey (RCAHMS, 1993) Glenesslin, Nithsdale: an archaeological survey (RCAHMS, 1994) Southdean, Borders: an archaeological survey (RCAHMS, 1994) Braes of Doune: an archaeological survey (RCAHMS, 1994) Upper Strathnairn, Inverness, Highland Region: an archaeological survey, summary report (RCAHMS, 1994) Mar Lodge Estate, Grampian: an archaeological survey (RCAHMS, 1995) Forts, Farms and Furnaces: archaeology in the Central Scotland Forest (RCAHMS, 1998) Catalogues of Aerial Photographs Air Photographs Unit 1976 Catalogue (RCAHMS, 1976) Air Photographs Unit 1977 Catalogue (RCAHMS, 1977) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1978 (RCAHMS, 1978) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1979 (RCAHMS, 1979) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1980 (RCAHMS, 1980) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1981 (RCAHMS, 1981) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1982 (RCAHMS, 1982) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1983 (RCAHMS, 1985) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1984-5 (RCAHMS, 1988) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1986-7 (RCAHMS, 1989) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1988 (RCAHMS, 1990) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1989 (RCAHMS, 1993) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1990 (RCAHMS, 1993) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1991 (RCAHMS, 1994) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1992 (RCAHMS, 1996) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1993 (RCAHMS, 1997) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1994 (RCAHMS, 1999) Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1995 (RCAHMS, 2000) Preliminary Catalogues of Aerial Photographs Preliminary Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1995 (RCAHMS, 1996) Preliminary Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1996 (RCAHMS, 1997) Preliminary Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1997 (RCAHMS, 1998) Preliminary Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1998 (RCAHMS, 1999) Preliminary Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 1999 (RCAHMS, 2000) Preliminary Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 2000 (RCAHMS, 2001) Preliminary Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 2001 (RCAHMS, 2002) Preliminary Catalogue of Aerial Photographs 2002 (RCAHMS, 2003) PICTISH AND MEDIEVAL SCULPTURE Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in the West Highlands, K A Steer and J W M Bannerman, (HMSO, 1977) Pictish Symbol Stones, a handlist 1985 (RCAHMS, 1985; first revised edition 1994: second revised edition 1999) Early Medieval Sculpture in the West Highlands and Islands, I Fisher (RCAHMS and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2001) ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY The Stirling Heads. An account of the Renaissance Wood-carvings from the King’s Presence Chamber at Stirling Castle (HMSO, 1960; revised edition 1975) Iona, J G Dunbar and I Fisher (HMSO, 1983) Iona: a guide to the monuments, I Fisher, (HMSO, 1995) Buildings of St Kilda, G P Stell and M Harman (HMSO, 1988) Tenements and Towers, Glasgow Working?Class Housing 1890?1990, M Horsey (HMSO, 1990) Dundee on Record: images of the past (HMSO, 1992) Surveys of Postwar Buildings (RCAHMS, 1994) Tolbooths and town-houses: civic architecture in Scotland to 1833 (TSO, 1996) Aberdeen on Record: images of the past (TSO, 1997) Cardross Seminary: Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and the architecture of postwar Catholicism, D M Watters (RCAHMS, 1997) Scottish Farm Buildings Survey: Report, Assessment and Proposals (RCAHMS, 1995) Scottish Farm Buildings Survey: 1. East Central Scotland (RCAHMS, 1998) Scottish Farm Buildings Survey: 2. Orkney (RCAHMS, 1999) Scottish Farm Buildings Survey: 3. Sutherland (RCAHMS, 1999) Home Builders: Mactaggart & Mickel and the Scottish Housebuilding Industry, M Glendinning and D Watters (RCAHMS, 1999) The World of Worship (RCAHMS, 1999) Architecture Maps, Scotland – 1. Inner Edinburgh (RCAHMS and The Lighthouse, 2003) Architecture Maps, Scotland – 2. Inner Glasgow (RCAHMS and The Lighthouse, 2004) INDUSTRIAL SURVEY Scottish Watermills Survey: an interim report, G J Douglas and M K Oglethorpe (RCAHMS, 1985) Monuments of Industry: an illustrated historical record, G D Hay and G P Stell, (HMSO, 1986) Catalogue of Records, Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey 1977-85 (RCAHMS, 1989) Brick, Tile and Fireclay Industries in Scotland, G J Douglas and M K Oglethorpe, (RCAHMS, 1993) Catalogue of the Scottish Power Collections (RCAHMS, 1994) Explosives in the service of man: Ardeer and the Nobel Heritage, J E Dolan and M K Oglethorpe (RCAHMS, 1996) The Sir William Arrol Collection: a guide to the Scottish material held in the NMRS (RCAHMS, 1998) The Sir William Arrol Collection: a guide to the international material held in the NMRS (RCAHMS, 2000) SIAS Catalogue of Records 1977-85 (RCAHMS, 2000) BROADSHEET SERIES 1. Muirkirk, Ayrshire: an industrial landscape (RCAHMS, 1995) 2. Mar Lodge: the archaeology of a Cairngorm estate (RCAHMS, 1996) 3. Achitibuie: a crofting landscape (RCAHMS, 1997) 4. St Kilda: settlemnt and structures on Hirta (RCAHMS, 1998) 5. Canna: the survey of a Hebridean Landscape (RCAHMS, 1999) 6. Holyrood: the archaeology of the Royal Park (RCAHMS, 1999) 7. Wester Kittochside: the Museum of Scottish Country Life (RCAHMS, 2002) 8. The Union Canal (RCAHMS, 2002) 9. The Forth and Clyde Canal (RCAHMS, 2002) 10. The Mallaig Railway (RCAHMS, 2002) 11. Early Medieval Sculpture in Angus Museums (RCAHMS, 2003) 12. Eigg: the archaeology on a Hebridean landscape (RCAHMS, 2003) 13. St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh: a short history and guide (RCAHMS, 2003) 14. The Falls of Clyde: artists and monuments (RCAHMS, 2004) EXPLORING SCOTLAND'S HERITAGE SERIES Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Lothian and Borders, John R Baldwin (HMSO, 1985) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Argyll and the Western Isles, Graham Ritchie and Mary Harman (HMSO, 1985) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Orkney and Shetland, Anna Ritchie (HMSO, 1985) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. The Clyde Estuary and Central Region, J B Stevenson (HMSO, 1985) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Dumfries and Galloway, Geoffrey Stell (HMSO, 1986) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Grampian, Ian A G Shepherd (HMSO, 1986) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. The Highlands, Joanna Close-Brooks (HMSO, 1986) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Fife and Tayside, Bruce Walker and Graham Ritchie (HMSO, 1987) EXPLORING SCOTLAND'S HERITAGE SERIES (REVISED EDITION) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. The Highlands, Joanna Close-Brooks (HMSO, 1995) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Glasgow, Clydeside and Stirling, J B Stevenson (HMSO, 1995) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Aberdeen and North-East Scotland, Ian A G Shepherd (HMSO, 1995) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Argyll and the Western Isles, Graham Ritchie and Mary Harman (HMSO, 1995) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Fife, Perthshire and Angus, Bruce Walker and Graham Ritchie (HMSO, 1995) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Dumfries and Galloway, Geoffrey Stell (TSO, 1996) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Orkney, Anna Ritchie (TSO, 1996) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Edinburgh, Lothian and Borders, John R Baldwin (TSO, 1997) Exploring Scotland’s Heritage. Shetland, Anna Ritchie (TSO, 1997) WEB PUBLICATIONS Annual Reviews Monuments on Record 1998-9 (1999) Monuments on Record 1999-2000 (2000) Monuments on Record 2000-1 (2001) Monuments on Record 2001-2 (2002) Annual Review 2002-3 (2003) Corporate Plans RCAHMS Corporate Plan 2003-8 (2003) RCAHMS Corporate Plan 2004-9 (2004) General Response to the Review of Public Bodies (2001) Scottish Thesaurus of Monument Types (2001) Eigg and the Small Isles (2003) Information Asset Register: details for RCAHMS, NMRS and Canmore (2003) Accessing Scotland’s Past: pilot project (2003) Hamilton Palace: a virtual reconstruction (2003) Historic Land-use Assessment: glossary of historic land-use terms (2003) Historic Land-use Assessment: Stirling Area (2003) Historic Land-use Assessment: Cowal Area (2003) Historic Land-use Assessment: Strath Don Area (2004)