Smithsonian Contributions series now available online!

The Smithsonian has a long and rich history of research and scientific publication. As part of an overall plan for digitization of the collections, the Smithsonian Libraries has tackled the rich and varied output of Smithsonian scholarly publications.

We're please to announce today that the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries have completed the digitization of legacy volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions Series. PDFs are available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/.

This is the single largest digitization project to date to be completed by the Smithsonian of legacy print collections. It includes 1,072 volumes (more than 107,000 pages) of Smithsonian research in a wide range of subject areas.

All publications are free to users around the world!

The following Series are now available as high-resolution PDFs:

• Smithsonian Annals of Flight (1964-1974)
• Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology (1965-present)
• Smithsonian Contributions to Astrophysics (1956-1974)
• Smithsonian Contributions to Botany (1969-present)
• Smithsonian Contributions to Folklife Studies (1980-1990)
• Smithsonian Contributions to History and Technology (1969-present; formerly Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology)
• Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences (1969-2002)
• Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences (1977-present)
• Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (1969-present)
• Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (1969-present)
• Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space (1977-1990)

Additional Smithsonian publication series are currently being scanned and will be available in the coming months.

For more information about the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, visit their website.

- Martin Kalfatovic