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Call to rightful owners : digitization of publications from observatories in the provinces

7 juin 2017

The Bibliothèque nationale de France, in partnership with the Paris
Observatory, would like to launch the digitization of journal titles.

The digitized pages in image and text mode will be accessible freely and for no cost on the internet via sites maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Paris Observatory, and in particular Gallica.

The following journals are concerne by the digitzation :

  • Annales de l’Observatoire astronomique, magnétique et météorologique de Toulouse, 1880-1912
  • Bulletin astronomique, 1886-1896
     * Annales de l’Observatoire de Besançon. Astronomie et géophysique,
    1934-1946
  • Annales de l’Observatoire astronomique et météorologique de
    Toulouse, 1914-1945
  • Annalen der Kaiserlichen Universitäts-Sternwarte in Strassburg,
    1896-1911
  • Annales françaises de chronométrie, 1931-1946
  • Bulletin chronométrique, 1899-1925
  • Observations faites au cercle méridien (Abbadia), 1899-1913 et 1920-1921
  • Annales de l’Observatoire de Strasbourg, 1926-1946

Therefore, persons who have contributed to these journals, or their assigned representatives, should please fill in the authorization form and send it to :

Bibliothèque de l’Observatoire de Paris
61 avenue de l’Observatoire
75014 Paris

Six months after the publication of this note on the Paris Observatory web site, and in the absence of refusal by the authors or their representatives, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the l’Observatoire de Paris will put the digitized volumes on line.

Note, however, that after the on-line publication, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Observatoire de Paris will remove any article if its author/s or their representatives so desire.