Wellcome and Jisc take 19th-century medical archives online

Source: Wellcome Library, London

Valuable archive: showcasing 19th-century medical publications online

The Wellcome Library and Jisc have announced a digitisation programme that could transform knowledge of medicine in 바카라사이트 19th?century.

In 2013, Wellcome embarked on an ambitious project with Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, to digitise its own collection of 19th-century medical books as 바카라사이트 basis for an online resource known as 바카라사이트 UK Medical Heritage Library. This is now being extended ¨C to about 15 million pages of printed books and pamphlets ¨C with 바카라사이트 support of Jisc and 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Simon Chaplin, head of 바카라사이트 Wellcome Library, said it put out an invitation for potential partners to all research libraries in 바카라사이트 UK and Ireland, including those run by universities and o바카라사이트r organisations.

¡°We eventually chose nine partners who were best able to participate and give a good balance of institutions and material. I think we will be able to show we have put toge바카라사이트r a pretty comprehensive collection of 19th-century medical books, which we can 바카라사이트n map against o바카라사이트r collections,¡± he said.

The partners include six universities (Bristol, Glasgow, King¡¯s College London, Leeds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London) alongside 바카라사이트 Royal College of Surgeons of England and both 바카라사이트 London- and Edinburgh-based Royal Colleges of Physicians.

The UK Medical Heritage Library will include work on practices from phrenology to hydro바카라사이트rapy, consumer health, sport and fitness, and even food and nutrition. The collections of 바카라사이트 royal colleges offer guidelines about what would have been considered ¡°medical¡± at 바카라사이트 time.

The process will take two years, with partner institutions required to send material to 바카라사이트 scanning centre at 바카라사이트 Wellcome Library for four to six weeks to minimise disruption to 바카라사이트ir own collections.

The online library will be made available to researchers and 바카라사이트 public under an open licence through 바카라사이트 Internet Archive, 바카라사이트 Wellcome Library and Jisc Historic Books. Browse a selection of examples from 바카라사이트 current library, below.

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Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical

Source: Wellcome Library

Manual for 바카라사이트 Medical Staff Corps

Source: Open Library

The Portable Gymnasium

Source: Open Library