In 1874, Alfred Giard founded a maritime zoological station in Wimereux. Although this station was destroyed during the Second World War, its legacy continues in Paris and on the Opal Coast.In Paris, the  BCPR (Biology, Chemistry and Physics Research) Library keeps some of the documentary collections inherited from the old Wimereux station. This autumn, SorbonNum uploaded the Travaux de la station zoologique Wimereux (Works of the Wimereux zoological station). In Wimereux and its...
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25 October 2024

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At the start of this summer, SorbonNum provided new digitised batches for the geology collections. These are 51 books and 34 maps which make up a corpus of regional geology throughout France and the rest of the world. Colonial history is represented with a collection specialised in Indochina before 1920.Find out more about the geology collections in SorbonNum.Illustration image: extract from Étude des plissements et des zones d'écrasement de la moyenne et de la basse...
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15 July 2024

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Since June, SorbonNum has provided the posters created by Sorbonne University to enhance its scientific and heritage collections: see section Services / Downloading posters. More broadly, all the documents published on SorbonNum are placed under the Etalab open license and can be downloaded free of charge. Regarding the heritage collections themselves, for each digitised document, you can:- from the image viewer, download a jpg or pdf file from a selection within the digitised document-...
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12 July 2024

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This May, SorbonNum is putting 6 digitised sets of the Pierre Aubry's Archives, held by Sorbonne University.The 1910 donation to the University of Paris of the library and archives of this archivist and palaeographer, a pioneer of musicology, is at the origin of the Collex-labelled musicology collection (collection d’excellence), which has been held at Clignancourt university library since 2013.Among the documents digitised and available on the SorbonNum is the manuscript of his thesis...
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23 May 2024

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Sorbonne University awarded the Culture Libre Bronze label for its SorbonNum digital heritage library.An initiative of Wikimedia France, label Culture Libre rewards cultural institutions that incorporate the open content approach into their digital practices, i.e. encourage the re-use, including the commercial re-use, of cultural content, documents, and digitised works. This label is based on the principles described in the Charter of Commitment for the accessibility, openness, and distribution...
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7 May 2024

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