Expeditions & discoveries
Subtitle: sponsored exploration and scientific discovery in the modern age
Contributors: Harvard University. Library. Open Collections Program
Publisher: The President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Scientific expeditions; History; Discoveries in geography
Other titles: Expeditions and discoveries; Sponsored exploration and scientific discovery in the modern age; Harvard University Library. Open Collections Program
Description: Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. Published materials, maps, and photographs, as well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953 are included. These full-text resources are publicly available via the World Wide Web and are fully searchable. Materials are supplemented by explanatory pages on expeditions and on notable people.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on May 1, 2009).

Funded by Arcadia.

The Harvard University Library established the Open Collections Program in 2002 with funding from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. Subsequent support was received from Arcadia and, more recently, from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Abdulaziz Alsaud.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.