The Institute Archives serves as the collective memory of Caltech by preserving the papers, documents, artifacts and pictorial materials that tell the school's history, from 1891 to the present. Researchers will also find here a wealth of sources for the history of science and technology worldwide, stretching from the time of Copernicus to today.
La Sede di Brera e la Sede di Merate sono provviste di ampie biblioteche, che conservano le moderne riviste astronomiche specializzate (ApJ, AJ, A&A, MNRAS, etc.) e una collezione di monografie recenti. La Sede di Brera conserva inoltre la biblioteca storica dell'Osservatorio che comprende circa 35 mila titoli a partire del '400.
The Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Torun was established in 1945. It is the largest university in northern Poland and is outstanding in terms of academic potential, courses of study on offer, forms of education, and number of students. The University employs a total staff of over 3,000, of whom 1,368 are academic teachers.
The NCU is composed of eleven faculties: the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, the Faculty of Chemistry, the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Faculty of History, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Languages, the Faculty of Law and Administration, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, and the Faculty of Theology. There are 33 areas of study and over 80 specialisations. Students have the choice of, for example, the only Polish university course in Art History and Conservation, or attractive interdisciplinary options in the humanities. There are several specialisations available which are rarely represented at other Polish universities, such as Medical Physics, and Chemistry with Elements of Marketing and Management. Over 56 postgraduate and 12 doctoral programmes are also available. The total enrolment at the University is 34,000, of whom 508 are graduate students working towards Doctor degrees.
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest libraries.
Our vision is to make the world's intellectual, scientific and cultural heritage accessible, and to bring the collections of the British Library to everyone - at work, school, college or home.
We receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland
The collection includes 150 million items, in most known languages
3 million new items are incorporated every year
We house manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents
The Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to the latest CD, DVD and minidisc recordings
In den Katalogen verzeichnet sind Bücher, Zeitschriften, Zeitungen und Medien.
Aufsätze oder Artikel? finden Sie in den Katalogen nicht, aber die Zeitschriften oder Bücher, in denen diese erschienen sind
The library, that is specialized in astronomy and astrophysics, was born at the beginning of the XVIII century together with the foundation of the Specola di Bologna by Eustachio Manfredi. Today it is a part of the Library System of the University of Bologna and is active in both of the main Italian online library catalogues,ACNP (for serials) and SBN (for books).
The library is mainly destinated to the bolognese astronomers and to the students of the local degree course in astronomy, but counts among its users also amateur astronomers, school teachers and other scholars, like for example physicists, historians and philosophers of science.
The students of the scientific Departments of the University of Bologna are welcome.
Welcome to the
Internet Library of Early Journals
A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The project finished in 1999, and no additional material will be added.
The Autograph De revolutionibus preserved in the Jagiellonian Library is a result of work of the great scholar, intermediate between a rough copy and a fair copy. It had remained in Copernicus' hands until his death (24 May 1543). His papers and books passed to his closest friend, Tiedemann Giese (1480-1550), a bishop in Chelmno at that time. He bequeathed his library to Warmia Chapter. However, the autograph went to the collection of George Joachim Rheticus (1514-1574), astronomer, Copernicus' pupil.
Every page of the original "De Revolutionibus" manuscript has been scanned into this Jagiellonian Library website. Visitors may want to bring their Latin-English dictionaries, however, as the text has not been translated. The navigation is rather basic as well. A reader cannot, for example, browse through each page one by one. Instead he or she must click the "Back" button to return to the index page which contains the links to all of the scanned pages. Additionally, there is no search tool. The introduction to the manuscript is interesting though mistakes in grammer (the content was produced in Poland) and in web design for some browsers are evident.
This major British Library exhibition traced the West's response to the oldest intellectual challenge facing the human mind: what is the shape and the extent of the earth and of the cosmos which contains it? The problem has been the province of religion, poetry and myth, but in the western scientific tradition it resolved itself into the twin enterprises of mapping the earth and the heavens. The exhibition of more than one hundred maps, books and artefacts, drew on a thousand years of science and art. It showed the progress of scientific knowledge of the earth and the heavens, and also the ways in which art and symbolism have been used to make statements about man's relationship to his world and the mysteries of the universe.
Digitisation of both printed books and graphic material is well under way. For technical and economic reasons, documents have been processed primarily in image mode to begin with. Most of the texts selected for digitisation are out-of-copyright material making up an encyclopaedic collection on the human and social sciences which includes original material, peer reviews, reference works and a collection of journals which are either major research references or difficult to find elsewhere. The 100000 digitised images are drawn from document collections held outside the Bibliothèque nationale de France and from patrimonial collections selected among its own departments. The digitised collections are distributed through the internal Bibliothèque nationale de France network, but once the various technical and legal problems involved in on-line communications have been resolved, all digitised documents will be available through the various "information highways".
