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It’s on Amazon, but is it in the Library?
The Wellcome Library’s quick search is great for finding out what we have if you’re already on our web site. But what do you do if you find a book on another web site, like Amazon? Do you open up… Continue reading
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New update to Wellcome Library’s quick search
The Wellcome Library’s quick search (also known as Encore) now has a new, cleaner look and feel. Our quick search helps you by giving you one place to search across and dig into the WellcomeLibrary’s collections. These new features can… Continue reading
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Death to bad handwriting!
Back in 2007 Time Health reported that doctors’ bad handwriting was killing more than 7,000 people each year in the U.S. This report certainly rings a bell with us: one of the reasons we really wanted to introduce our online photography… Continue reading
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Europeana Libraries highlights
Europeana Libraries has produced a lovely video to highlight a selection of the more than 5 million objects which the project will put online in the coming 2 years. The clip reveals the great variety of objects, ranging from ancient… Continue reading
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Hack for victory!
Open access to data and its reuse is a policy dear to the heart of the Wellcome Library and Wellcome Trust, supported primarily through UK PubMed Central and the Trust’s grant funding for research. So it was with particular interest… Continue reading
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Putting Medical Officer of Health reports on the map
The Wellcome Library holds nearly 3,000 Medical Officer of Health reports, the most complete collection of its kind in Great Britain. These can already be searched on our catalogue, where the ‘Place’ and ‘Refine by tag’ facets make it easy… Continue reading
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Helping you to find the Wellcome LibrARy
… or, the Wellcome Library augments reality Wouldn’t it be nice if, for your visit to the Wellcome Library, you had a personal guide to get you all the way from the station or bus stop and right to our… Continue reading
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5 million manuscripts, films and texts…
…that’s what Europeana Libraries will be contributing to Europeana over the next two years. The Europeana Libraries project kicked off last week and the Wellcome Library was there to be involved right from the start. Europeana Libraries will add 5… Continue reading
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Need an interesting image or the perfect picture?
The Wellcome Library has recently made ordering new photography from our wonderful collections a lot easier with our new online photography ordering service. We think this is a first – we’ve not seen any other library providing a service online… Continue reading
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New Wellcome Library home page
Today we unveil Wellcome Library’s new home page. We want to give you the answers to your most frequently-asked questions on the very first page of our website. So our address, contact details and visiting information, including our opening hours,… Continue reading