Tag: digital scholarship

Digital Connection: LOUISiana Digital Library

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The LOUISiana Digital Library has 22 participating libraries, archives, museums, and other historical organizations contributing material to document the history and culture of Louisiana. The LDL has a wide variety of resources available, including textual documents, photographs, video clips, and medical illustrations. Included in this vast amount of material is a great deal to do with the history of medicine and science, both in Louisiana and elsewhere. Continue reading

Digital Connections: Trove

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Trove is a discovery project from the National Library of Australia, aggregating a wide variety of content all to do with Australian history. The Library itself describes Trove as “supports the discovery and annotation of items in Australian collections.  The term “Australian collections” encompasses libraries, archives, university repositories and major online collections such as biographical databases, digitised book collections and digitised newspaper collections.” Continue reading

Digital Connections: Old Bailey Online

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The Old Bailey Online may not seem like the most obvious resource for researchers interested in the history of medicine. According to the project’s mission statement, it “…makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate’s [prison chaplain] Accounts between 1676 and 1772. It allows access to over 197,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn, free of charge for non-commercial use.” The website also provides access to digital images of pages from the Proceedings and Ordinary’s Accounts. There’s an additional resource for those particularly interested in the accounts from the Newgate chaplain at the London Lives: Ordinary’s Accounts site, a sister project to the Old Bailey Online. Continue reading

Digital Connections: Embryo Encyclopedia

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In a new series on the MHL blog, I’m going to be putting together a semi-regular series on other collections and tools that you might find useful. If you think there’s something I missed — something that should have a home on our “Tools for Digital Research” page, maybe? — please let me know! The email is medicalheritage (one word) at gmail dot com.

This week, I want to point out the Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Continue reading

National Library of Medicine Releases “Medicine in the Americas,” Featuring Digitized Versions of American Medical Books Dating Back to 1745

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From Anatomical Tables of the Human Body, William Cheselden, 1796.

From Practical horse farrier, or, The traveller's pocket companion: shewing the best method to preserve the horse in health...,William Carver, 1820.

The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of NIH, announces the release of Medicine in the Americas. A digital resource encompassing over 350 early American printed books, Medicine in the Americas makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20th century. Continue reading