The Bulletin de L'Institut oceanographique was started in 1904. At that time there was no international journal devoted to oceanography. The latest volumes contain the proceedings of international symposia organized by the Museum: "Pearl and mother-of-pearl", "Spirulina", "Biomineralization", or in association with the Museum (Remote sensing). The bulletin also publishes the catalogue of the Museum's collection of oceanographic instruments.
The Memoires de l'Institut oceanographique started in 1970 and publish researches in general oceanography, mostly applied to the Mediterranean. Among the latest publications: an atlas of the currents in the Mediterranean, observed by satellite, as well as monographs about Amphipoda and Appendicularia.
Since 1989, the collection Abysses has been showing attractive topics connected with the beauty of the sea, in a pleasant and accessible way: "South Sea pearls", "Nautilus".
Various other Publications are geared to the Museum's visitors wishing to improve their knowledge about the sea: "Whales and Dolphins of the Mediterranean"(1991), "Mother-of-pearl art, holy shells" (1993), "Mathurin Meheut and the Oceanographic Museum" (1994).
The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco owns one of the richest and oldest oceanographic libraries in Europe. Its collections, regularly added to and updated, contain today more than twenty-five thousand books, three thousand five hundred journals, one thousand two hundred of which are received regularly from eighty countries, as well as an important section of reports from oceanographic cruises.
The holdings are especially important in these topics: biological oceanography and marine biological, aquariology and aquaculture, protection of the marine environment, scientific and vernacular names of marine animals and plants, history of oceanography.
Modern technologies make all these documents within reach of users all around the world. Bona fide readers are allowed to consult all the holdings on the premises.
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page", St. Augustine said. Here at www.travel-university.org we believe that every page must be read and explored. Travel is an avenue of learning that no text or classroom can teach. The world is a living classroom and you the student. We invite you to the www.travel-university.org library where you can read general interest and detail oriented articles.
