[WEB4LIB] Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, First Series

[Sarah L. Shreeves]

To add to that, UIUC through our IMLS grant (see 
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu) helped to set up an OAI static repository 
(with both MARC and Dublin Core records) for this collection at the Academy 
of Natural Sciences.

The base URL is: 
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/gateway/oai.asp/www.acnatsci.org/library/collections/imls/nlg/AcadNatSciStatic.xml?verb=Identify

The OAI static repository and gateway system is a nice way for small 
libraries with relatively static collections that they want to share to 
come up on OAI. The UIUC library currently maintains a static repository 
(as does Los Alamos Labs, I think). For more information about OAI static 
repositories see: 
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-static-repository.htm

Sarah Shreeves

At 11:51 AM 12/2/2004, george at library.caltech.edu wrote:
>Reading through the December issue of _Choice_ I stumbled upon a rare
>gem of early American scientific publishing.  Using an IMLS grant, the
>Ewell Sale Stewart Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences has
>digitized the entire first series of Journal of the Academy of Natural
>Sciences of Philadelphia.
>
>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
>Fulltext First Series v1-8 (1817-1842)
>http://www.acnatsci.org/library/collections/imls/
>ISSN: 0885-3479
>
>The website provides details on the techniques used in the digitization
>in addition to the historical and scientific bounty of the journal
>proper.  Whether one's research interests run to ornithology,
>entomology, ichthyology, or botany, American scientific luminaries of
>the first half of the 19th century wrote major pieces in this early
>giant of American scholarly communication.  The article which caught my
>eye initially is John James Audubon's prospectus for his monumental
>_Birds of North America_.
>
>George S. Porter
>Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
>California Institute of Technology
>Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125-4300
>Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681
>http://library.caltech.edu
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