Le Mouvement Géographique: journal populaire des sciences géographiques illustré de cartes, plans et gravures
All the volumes of the Belgian geographical journal Le Mouvement Géographique, published between 1884 and 1922, have recently been digitised by the Ghent University Library. The project was initiated and supported by the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren. The entire collection can be freely consulted in full text via the Ghent University Library's online catalogue.
(permalink: https://lib.ugent.be/catalog/ser01:000276422 ).
Read more about the history of the Journal on the French or Dutch page.
Note for researchers
Each year, the journals were bound by the library into a single volume. Each volume contained a table of contents (ToC) with references to the articles. In the early years, these references indicated the pages and within these pages one of the three columns a, b or c. From 1895 onwards, the publisher indicated the column numbers, which followed one another from journal to journal. The volumes are scanned as if you were opening them in real life, with 2 pages per image. These images are not digitised. It is therefore not possible to search by keyword.
To help researchers, all the tables of contents have been reproduced in a large PDF file that you can download (tdm1884-1922.pdf ). In this file you can search by keyword, for example ‘Boma’, and you will find all the articles that contain this word. To make searching easier, we have also created an Excel file (table1884-1922.xlsx) containing around thirty windows (by year) with tables that tell you which scanned image contains the page or column you are looking for.