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Open Access at Yale

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Last week, Yale University, one of the partners in the MHL, announced it would be offering open access to images of many of the items in its museums, libraries, and special collections via a new website: Discover Yale Digital Commons.

Researchers can browse the collections — which include Historical Scientific Instruments — or search for something specific.

For more on the new Yale initiative, see coverage at DigitalKoans, Ten Thousand Year Blog, the Chronicle of Higher Education’s QuickWire or Boston.com.

The MHL is pleased to be in such a fine and growing group of online projects.

As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!

Medical Heritage Library

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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:

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