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Medical Heritage Library. Mission. Content-centered digital community Supporting research, education, dialog History of medicine contributing to understanding of past and present health and society Body of curated digital materials
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Mission • Content-centered digital community • Supporting research, education, dialog • History of medicine contributing to understanding of past and present health and society • Body of curated digital materials • Access point to digital and non-digital holdings of contributing institutions • Facilitates discourse around medical practice, human health
Scope of the MHL • 48,000+ items • Text, audio-visual, audio • Journals, monographs, pamphlets, ephemera, video • 1502-2000s • Primarily in English, but also French, German, Spanish, Latin, Portuguese...
Participation Levels • Principal contributor: any institution that dedicates resources or staff time to achieve MHL goals and objectives. • Content contributor: any institution that adds digitized materials to the MHL. • Contributor: any institution that publicizes the MHL and promotes its use and development.
How to Find the MHL • Website: www.medicalheritage.org/ From there, link to any of these: • Internet Archive: archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary • Twitter: twitter.com/MedicalHeritage • Facebook: www.facebook.com/medicalheritagelibrary • Email: medicalheritage@gmail.com • Search: http://mhl.countway.harvard.edu/search