The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, is among the Medical Heritage Library (MHL) member libraries participating in a project to digitise an estimated 6,000 volumes from 200 historical American medical journal titles published between 1797 and 1923.
Funding for the digitisation of these journals from the collections of Columbia, Harvard and Yale Universities and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is made available through a two-year grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to Open Knowledge Commons (OKC).
NLM and other MHL collaborators not directly involved in the digitisation will assist the effort by providing journal volumes that the four participants do not hold. The digitised journals will join the more than 33,000 monographs, serials, pamphlets, and films currently available in the MHL. The digitised journals will be made freely available to researchers through the Medical Heritage Library collection in the Internet Archive.
The MHL is a content centered digital community supporting research, education, and dialogue that enables the history of medicine to contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and society. It serves as the point of access to a valuable body of quality curated digital materials and to the broader digital and nondigital holdings of its members.
