Historical Literature in the ADS

Details Historical Literature in the ADS Historical Literature in the ADS

Dec 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aas...191.3502e&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 191st AAS Meeting, #35.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1262

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3

Scientific paper

The Astrophysics Data System at http://adswww.harvard.edu is in the process of scanning the historical astronomical literature and making it available through the World Wide Web. We have scanned several volumes from the early 1800's of the "Astronomische Nachrichten", and the "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society", the two oldest astronomical journals. We also have several of the early volumes of the "Astrophysical Journal" and the "Astronomical Journal" available. For all the journals that we cover, we have scanned volume 1. These early volumes can be accessed on a page-by-page basis. We plan to continue to scan this historical literature and complete these journals within the next year. We are also collaborating with a preservation project at Harvard University. This project will microfilm selected parts of astronomical Observatory reports. We plan to scan these microfilms to produce electronic images of these reports and put them on-line in the ADS. We hope to eventually cover most of the astronomical literature. In order to organize the scanned pages into articles, we need tables of contents (ToC). The early issues of the journals did not have printed ToC pages, so this needs to be done by hand. We do not have the financial resources to build these ToCs. We are looking for collaborators who would be willing to work with us in building these ToCs for the older journals and observatory reports. If you are interested in such a project, please contact the first author at gei@cfa.harvard.edu.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Historical Literature in the ADS does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Historical Literature in the ADS, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Historical Literature in the ADS will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1173752