National Library of Medicine Receives Grant to Digitize Medical Heritage Works Dating Back to 17th Century

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The National Library of Medicine (NLM)...has been named a partner in a multi-centered grant to digitize materials in the history of medicine. As one of five libraries participating in the digital Medical Heritage Project, NLM will receive $360,000 over the next two months to digitize items from its historical medical collections. The initiative is funded by a $1.5 million award to the Open Knowledge Commons, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a universal digital library for democratic access to information, from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...."

Link:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/digitize_grant.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.medicine oa.funding oa.digitization oa.okc oa.nlm oa.sloan

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 20:13

Date published:

01/31/2010, 16:18