Making science accessible: Matthew Blair ’26 is digitizing hundreds of issues of student-run magazine | Yale Library

"Hundreds of issues of “The Yale Scientific Magazine,” the oldest collegiate scientific publication in the country, are now available to researchers in digitized format on EliScholar, the library’s online platform for scholarly publishing.

Matthew Blair ’26—majoring in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health—has been involved in the magazine since his first semester at Yale. At the end of the 2023 fall term, in addition to his role as editor, he became the magazine’s first-ever archivist.

“This digitization effort,” Blair said, “was undertaken with the belief—and in the tradition of the magazine—that accessible science is meaningful science.”

Blair’s goal was to create an online resource that makes the publication’s valuable content from past issues widely available to the magazine’s readership, the broader Yale community, and historians and researchers worldwide...."