Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Library of the medical heritage granted to the digitalisation of historical medical journals of the grants NEH

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health, is among Member libraries, the Medical Library heritage (MHL) (www.medicalheritage.org), participating in a project with nieporównywalnej estimated 6000 volume of 200 historical American medical journal titles published between 1797 and 1923.

The financing of digitisation of these sheets collection Columbia, Harvard and Yale universities and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is provided by two years grant March 2012 with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) VAC to the open knowledge Commons (champion) (www.knowledgecommons.org).  NLM and other MHL colleagues are not directly involved in the digitisation will help efforts by the journal volumes which do not have four participants. Digital journals connect more than 33,000 monographs, serials, pamphlets and videos currently available in the MHL. Digital journal will be freely available to researchers through the collection of the library service heritage at the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary).

The library of the medical Heritage:
MHL (www.medicalheritage.org) this is a contents centered Digital Community to support research, education and dialog box, which allows for the history of medicine to contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and society. It serves as the access point to valuable quality antropologia digital material and wider holding digital and nondigital its members. Established in 2010, with funding from the Alfred p. Sloan Foundation through OKC to nieporównywalnej 30000 medical books rare. In addition to the participants named above MHL contributors are the Johns Hopkins University, the New York Academy of medicine, the New York public library and the Wellcome Library; Content contributors include Duke University, UMass Medical School and at the University of Toronto.

Information for Humanities NEH/Digital:
Created in 1965 as an independent agency of the Federal Government, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and training in the history, other areas of the humanities, literature and philosophy through the financing of selected, reviewed proposals around the nation. For more information about NEH Digital Humanities Office can be found at http://www.neh.gov/odh/.


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