Discovery Reports (1929-80)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16901805

Short description 

This dataset consists of the full text of volumes 1-37 of the Discovery reports, published between 1929 to 1980. Published in print by Cambridge University Press, these volumes contain scholarly articles and reports, from many hands, on the marine biology and oceanography of the Southern Ocean. They were the fruit of the Discovery Investigations, a series of ship- and shore-based investigations. The three ships associated with these voyages were the RRS Discovery, the RRS Discovery II, and the RRS William Scoresby. The Investigations were first funded by the British government in order to support the better management of commercial Atlantic whale fishing stock. 

These thirty-seven volumes are already available to read in the Southampton Digital Viewer at ‘Discovery’ reports.

Anticipated users and use cases 

This dataset is likely to be of interest to marine biologists and oceanographers, and to historians of science. It has a particular focus on whales. It enables computation analysis of the volumes as a whole, as a complement to the page-by-page reading made possible in the Digital Viewer. 

Production schedule 

Generated once. 

File information 

discovery_reports_1929-1980_alto.zip 159,717KB

discovery_reports_1929-1980_full_text.zip 10,196KB

discovery_reports_1929-1980_descriptive_metadata.csv 2KB

README.txt 3KB

Rights 

Copyright in the data is held by the National Oceanographic Centre. This data may be downloaded, stored and used for the purposes of private study and research. Permission to republish any substantial part of the dataset should in the first instance be sought from digitalscholarship@soton.ac.uk.