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The Smithsonian Libraries is a founding member and is the headquarters for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. [28] Digitized books are provided through the Biodiversity Heritage Library and indexed in both the Smithsonian's Collections Search and through the Digital Public Library of America.
Smithsonian collections include 156 million artworks, artifacts, and specimens. The National Museum of Natural History houses 145 million of these specimens and artifacts, which are mostly animals preserved in formaldehyde. The Collections Search Center has 9.9 million digital records available online.
The National Anthropological Archives is the third largest archive in the Smithsonian Institution and a sister archive to the Human Studies Film Archive.The collection documents the history of anthropology and the world's peoples and cultures, and is used in indigenous language revitalization.
Collections available for transcription include such documents as scientist field notebooks, artist diaries, astronomy logbooks, botany and bumblebee specimens and certified currency proofs. [ 3 ] The Smithsonian Transcription Center began in June 2013 and spent approximately a year in a beta test phase. [ 4 ]
The Smithsonian Institution began publishing consolidated compilations of quarto-sized papers in 1848, under the name Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. [1] In 1862 octavo-sized papers called Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections were added, [1] followed by the monographic Bulletin of the United States National Museum in 1875, [1] and the compiled Proceedings of the United States National ...
Smithsonian Research Online is a database of bibliographic citations and full texts of publications by Smithsonian Institution scholars. It is managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Access to the database is free. The database contained some 10,000 citations as of 2011. [1] An increasing proportion of the citations includes full texts.
The Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute and the Institut Photonique d’Analyse Non-destructive Européen des Matériaux Anciens platform at Soleil have formed a partnership to use the power of the third-generation synchrotron to study and preserve the priceless Smithsonian collections.
The Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection is a collection of some 1,728 human skeletons held by the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States. [1] The skeletons have been widely used in research for anthropology and forensic science.