COLD NUCLEAR FUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY - General information
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The bibliography is split into parts:
* Books.
* Articles published in journals; no patents, preprints or conferences here.
  This appears in the full form, including abstracts, in BibTeX form.
  This file is also provided, broken up into years of publication.
* The ICCF4 file. There was a cold fusion conference in 1993, after which
  about 60 papers presented were gathered in a special issue of Fusion
  Technology. The papers are said to have been refereed, but reading them,
  one gets the impression that the refereeing was somewhat lax. Therefore I
  decided to keep these out of the main papers file but since I am not 100%
  sure about this, I do present them anyway in the separate file, so you
  can have your cake and eat it, too.
* Patents. This file is probably very much out of date.
* News, reports, comments in scientific magazine/journals (Nature, Science...)
* Published articles peripheral to cold fusion (background facts etc).
* A sonoluminescence (SL) fusion file. This is still ongoing, started by the
  work of Taleyarkhan, and is considered by some as related to cold fusion,
  although, if there be fusion going on inside the collapsing bubbles, it will
  be hot. I collected the items and may as well share them. I will not update
  them as carefully as I will the regular cold fusion papers.
* A cluster impact fusion (CIF) file. This was a short affair, also considered
  as related to cold fusion, although tens and hundreds of keV were involved,
  but an anomaly was claimed. This was definitively disproved after a few
  years and the affair ended. The original papers by Friedlander et all are
  sometimes still cited by cold fusion articles, however and, again, I have
  the items and may as well share them. They might be of interest to science
  soc/phil people, as a scientific misstep that started and died again.

The items carry annotations. These are my own and may reflect a given personal
interest. Initially, I waxed a bit sarcastic on occasion and I have cleaned
this up to a large extent (I hope). Where I have not actually seen the article
the citation source is stated (most commonly Chemical Abstracts and Physical
Abstracts), and the comments taken from there, verbatim. Many items are marked
with submission and publication date in the form mm/yyyy. I use these for the
statistics program.

There is a file of recent updates of the last three months, and one where I
allow myself some remarks on them, or in fact anything I feel like remarking.

A word on my selection of cold fusion papers. I select only those out of
journals that I deem to use referees. There are other collections out there
with more papers than I have, taking in everything, including what I call
enthusiast news sheets. These have their place, but I prefer to collect only
refereed articles. It is not always clear how well a given paper has been
refereed.  One can wonder how certain papers got past referees, but if they
appear in a journal known to use referees, I take them in. Clearly, my choices
are arguable, and some do argue. On the other hand, the same people have been
known to boast about how many papers there are in my collection, what with my
strict criteria, showing what an active field cold fusion is. Actually, at the
time of writing this, there are 1438 papers in the collection, and for an
exciting field, this is not that much. I believe, for example, that high
temperature superconductivity has tens of thousands of papers, and there has
not been an exponential decline in the publication rate as there has been for
cold fusion (see the statistics plots).