The UK Medical Heritage Library: uniting digitised collections
The Wellcome Library and Jisc are delighted to announce
our nine UK research library partners for the UK Medical Heritage Library
project. These libraries will be making their historic collections available
for digitisation alongside the Wellcome Library’s own 19th century works. They
make up the bulk of the 15 million page goal made possible by funding from the
Higher Education and Funding Council for England and Jisc.
The nine partners include:
6 university libraries:
University of
Leeds
University of
Glasgow
London School
of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
King’s College
London
University of
Bristol
3 Royal College libraries:
Royal College
of Physicians of London
Royal College
of Physicians of Edinburgh
Royal College
of Surgeons of England
Relevant works will be selected by the partner libraries
from their historic book and pamphlet collections, representing a broad
selection of works from across medicine, health, and related subjects. The
Internet Archive will carry out all the digitisation work in a brand new
scanning centre here at the Wellcome Library that will accommodate well over
2,000 items per month at peak times.
From October, these will start to become available online
as part of the Medical Heritage Library
collection on the Internet Archive website and via the Wellcome Library
catalogue.
More detail on the project and the library partners can
be found here:
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need any
further details.
Phoebe Harkins
Communications Co-ordinator
Wellcome Library
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London NW1 2BE
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