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Online
Collections & Datasets |
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Search over 2 million records with 265,900 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from all across the Smithsonian |
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Highlights from the many research resources online
at the Smithsonian |
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The Smithsonian's central
source for the creation of images. Online catalog
at: Smithsonian Images |
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Online collection exploration |
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Online collection search |
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Online collection search |
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Online collection search (Asian and American art) |
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Online collection search (modern & contemporary art) |
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Online database on related objects in Smithsonian museum collections |
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The Inventories of American Painting & Sculpture reference
over 360,000 works in public and private collections nationwide |
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The lithograph collection provides a distinctive view of 19th-century American life as depicted in prints |
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The Postal Museum's educational and research Web site, presents the collections in a context-rich setting with full color images and zoom-in capability |
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Listen, learn, and download traditional music from around the world |
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Presenting the Smithsonian collections and the integral roles photographs play in our lives |
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Resources for the astronomical community, including current research data, facilities information and archival material |
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An ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth
Smithsonian Institution and partners
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Several online databases including the
National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System, the National Ballast Information Clearinghouse Database, and the Aquatic Invasions Research Directory |
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Museum collections records, specimens, taxonomies, bibliographies and more |
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The Smithsonian's 22 branch libraries contain more than 1.5 million volumes, including 40,000 rare books |
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Digital information |
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Databases, branches and services |
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Search Smithsonian library resources |
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Digital publications from the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press |
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The Smithsonian archives hold an estimated 50,000 cubic feet of paper documents, seven million still photographs, and thousands of films and audio recordings |
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Locate art, manuscripts, photographs, film, video, audio recordings and official records of the Institution |
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Search Smithsonian archives resources on SIRIS |
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A growing number of entire collections have been digitized and are available on the Archives' Web site as Collections Online
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Approximately 60,000 photographic images and records documenting historic and contemporary American gardens. Representative images are available online through SIRIS |
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Visual resources that encourage and support the study of the arts, peoples and history of Africa. Select images are available through the SIRIS Image Gallery
African Art Museum |
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Preserves and provides access to documentary evidence of America's past. All Archives Center collections are described in brief on SIRIS
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More than 53,000 digital images are now available. Most of these images are available through SIRIS
Natural History Museum |
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Finding aids are available online
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Maintaining the historical records of the Institution |
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Highlights include the Online National Air and Space Museum Directory of Airplanes |
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