Readme file for the Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Volume 346 Expedition Reports This document contains information regarding 1.0 Overview 1.1 About ISO disc images 1.2 ISO disc image contents 2.0 Minimum systems for viewing the PDF files in Adobe Reader 2.1 Viewing files 2.2 Printing files 3.0 Opening the volume 4.0 Images on the ISO disc image 4.1 Core images 4.2 Scanning and calibration 5.0 Other resources 5.1 Integrated Ocean Drilling Program 5.2 Adobe products 6.0 Volume formats 6.1 Expedition Reports on DVD-ROM 6.2 Volume on the World Wide Web 7.0 Citation linking with Digital Object Identifiers 7.1 Access to cross-publisher citations 1.0 Overview 1.1 About ISO disc images An ISO disc image is an archive file of an optical disc. The ISO disc image for each Proceedings volume is a hybrid Macintosh/Windows ISO 9660 image that users may download and burn to a blank DVD-R disc. These ISO disc images contain expedition reports and other content distributed at the time of initial publication. Consult your operating system's documentation for specific instructions regarding the correct procedures for mounting an ISO disc image and burning the image to disc. 1.2 ISO disc image contents This ISO disc image contains the Expedition Reports section of Volume 346 of the Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The Adobe Acrobat PDF format is used for text, tables, and images. Volume material is accessible with Adobe Reader software. This ISO disc image includes a table of contents; Expedition Reports; readme files; expedition core descriptions; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Ocean Drilling Program, and Deep Sea Drilling Project site maps; the expedition-related bibliography as of publication; and related supplementary material. Expedition core descriptions include prime data such as visual core descriptions, smear slide data tables, thin sections, and digital core images. Supplementary material related to the expedition may include data in proprietary formats such as expanded coring summary tables in Microsoft Excel, high-resolution figures in Adobe Illustrator, X-ray diffraction data in MacDiff, or other instrument data and logs in Excel or other database applications. For more details on the contents of this disc image, see the Directory Structure in the 346.PDF file. 2.0 Minimum systems for viewing the PDF files in Adobe Reader The minimum system for viewing the contents of this ISO disc image is a PC with a 1.3 GHz or faster processor running Windows XP, Vista, or 7, or an Intel-based Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher. We recommend using a 17-inch or larger monitor, a video card with 4 MB of VRAM to support high-resolution images and 24-bit color, and a DVD recordable optical drive for burning this ISO disc image to a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW disc. 2.1 Viewing files The quality of page and graphic images is significantly affected by the size and quality of the monitor on which the material is viewed. An optimized system, rather than the minimum required, is always recommended. In particular, fonts may appear to be distorted in small-scale images. Enlargement (zooming) improves image quality. 2.2 Printing files These files were created with embedded fonts. The files will reproduce on paper very well if they are printed on a high-quality 600-dpi printer. 3.0 Opening the volume If you have never viewed an IODP Proceedings volume in electronic format, we recommend that you begin by reading this entire readme file. Otherwise, you can begin viewing the volume by opening the 346.PDF file, which includes a table of contents and the directory structure. 4.0 Images on the ISO disc image 4.1 Core images On each visual core description pages, there is a blue link to the corresponding core image. Click on the link to see the PDF file containing the photo. In this ISO disc image, images are reduced to 300 dpi. These are large files and are presented in color. Without an optimal system, they will be slow to open. The average image file size is 400 KB. 4.2 Calibration Color is affected by the translation into PDF format. All files are slightly darker than the originals. Monitors need to be calibrated to a standard available with most graphic software applications. 5.0 Other resources 5.1 Integrated Ocean Drilling Program For questions or comments relating to the contents of this disc image, contact Supervisor of Production Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Texas A&M University 1000 Discovery Drive College Station TX 77845-9547 USA Tel: (979) 845-1172 Fax: (979) 862-3527 E-mail: pub_production@iodp.tamu.edu For information about the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, see IODP's website at www.iodp.org. 5.2 Adobe products For more information on Adobe products, see the Adobe website (www.adobe.com). 6.0 Volume formats 6.1 Expedition Reports on DVD-ROM For Volumes 301-335, Expedition Reports sections of IODP Proceedings volumes were distributed as stand-alone DVD-ROMs. To order, contact Publications Distribution Center Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Texas A&M University 1000 Discovery Drive College Station TX 77845-9547 USA Tel: (979) 845-2016 Fax: (979) 862-3527 E-mail: distribution@iodp.tamu.edu 6.2 Volume on the World Wide Web For each IODP expedition, a Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program volume is available online. For a listing of available IODP Proceedings volumes and other IODP scientific publications, see www.iodp.org/scientific-publications/. 7.0 Citation linking with Digital Object Identifiers 7.1 Access to cross-publisher citations The Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program utilizes CrossRef's Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system to enable researchers to navigate electronic journals across publishers. CrossRef's citation-linking network covers millions of articles and other content items from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers. CrossRef's cross-publisher citation linking system allows a researcher to click on a reference citation on one publisher's platform and link directly to the cited content on another publisher's platform. If a journal is not an open-access publication like the Proceedings of the Integrated ocean Drilling Program, a subscription might be required to view the complete version, but at a minimum an abstract should be available. To the extent possible, DOIs have been added to citations in IODP Proceedings reference lists so that researchers can more easily locate referenced papers. For more information about DOI or to access CrossRef's free DOI resolver, see the CrossRef website at www.crossref.org.