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  • New study on Web Archives: how do you use them?

    03/06/2009

    The UK Web Archiving Consortium and The National Archives are pleased to announce a study into how archived websites are collected and made available to users. The study is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee. Culturally significant websites are… Continue reading

  • Bulletin of the WHO – now available in PMC

    The Bulletin of the World Health Organisation – digitised under the auspices of the Wellcome Library/JISC/National Library of Medicine’s Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation project is now freely available in PubMed Central (PMC) and UKPMC. The Bulletin of the World Health… Continue reading

  • The Birth of Mankind

    01/06/2009

    The Birth of Mankind, otherwise named the Woman’s book was the most important English language work on midwifery in the 16th century. The text was a translation and adaptation of Der schwangern Frauwen und Hebammen Rosengarten, written by Eucharius Rösslin.… Continue reading

  • The origins of NHS bureaucracy

    22/05/2009

    The Dispensary movement had its beginnings in London in the second half of the 18th century. Championed by the Quaker physician John Coakley Lettsom, a system of dispensaries was introduced where the poor could be treated as out-patients and even… Continue reading

  • Item of the month – May 2009

    14/05/2009

    Back in March we highlighted a work by William Blades – The Enemies of Books. This single parchment leaf, Western MS.46, has had to deal with a number of threats included in Blades’ list – fire, water, ignorance and bigotry,… Continue reading

  • BMJ archive (1840 – ) online and free

    01/05/2009

    To celebrate the launch of the BMJ archive – digitised under the auspices of the Wellcome Library’s Medical Journals Backfiles project – an editorial in today’s BMJ offers readers a prize of £1000 for the most interesting use of the… Continue reading

  • The enemies of books

    18/03/2009

    We are currently reviewing our disaster recovery plans, and what we would do in the event of a major incident affecting the collections in London. This gem of a book from 1888 (The Enemies of Books, by William Blades) reminds… Continue reading

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    Wellcome Trust research papers – now available as an RSS feed

    19/12/2008

    An RSS feed has been setup to facilitate easy access to the latest research findings published by Wellcome Trust-funded authors. All papers listed are freely available in full-text format from the UK PubMed Central repository. View recent articles.

  • New Look to the UK Web Archive

    15/12/2008

    The UK Web Archive has a new public interface. See http://www.ukwebarchive.org.uk/ The Wellcome Library, along with the JISC, was instrumental in starting web archiving in the UK in 2005. Snapshots of each site are taken at suitable intervals. The archive… Continue reading

  • Selma Dritz

    10/11/2008

    Those interested in the twists and turns in the story of AIDS will have noted the death last month of a central figure – the infectious disease epidemiologist Selma Dritz. She will be remembered not just for her professional expertise… Continue reading