The Medical Heritage Library is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries.
The MHL promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live.
Current digitization partners are:
- National Library of Medicine
The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University
The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University
We’re working on a site and tools for access to the collections. Digitized books are available as they are completed at
http://www.archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary/
Be sure to check back often as new content is added daily!
The Medical Heritage Library was instigated by the Open Knowledge Commons, which was awarded $1.5 million dollars in start-up funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to begin digitization at partner libraries.
Please contact us if you are interested in our work at:
info at knowledgecommons.org