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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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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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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To mark the launch of the Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers archive on SorbonNum, the BSU is inviting visitors to the BCPR library (campus Pierre et Marie Curie), from 22 January to 26 February 2024, to discover a selection of six original documents on public display for the first time in Paris, illustrating different facets of this eminent scientist.To follow on from the exhibition, browse the entire collection on SorbonNum.Find out more about the HLD project:...
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19 January 2024

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On 18 November, the European League of Research Universities (LERU) published a book dedicated to academic heritage in the network's member universities. More than twenty of Europe's most prestigious universities present their scientific and heritage collections, both documentary and non-documentary, together with all the resources and projects used to promote them. Three French establishments participated: Paris-Saclay, Strasbourg and Sorbonne University. Sorbonne University's contribution (p....
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8 February 2023

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