I attended my first ICNIRS conference in 1991 in Aberdeen; the Proceedings of which we published jointly with VCH, the German Chemical Society publisher (now Wiley-VCH). Since then we have published a number of ICNIRS Proceedings (1995, 1997 and 2007 as Special Issues of JNIRS, 1999, 2001, 2003 and more recently 2017). We have just made these, with the exception of the JNIRS issues which are now published by SAGE, freely available at /nir-proceedings.