Ariadne: Web Magazine for Information Professionals

Use the link to access the full text article from Ariadne.  "The aim of the UK Medical Heritage Library (UK-MHL) Project is to provide free access to a wealth of medical history and related books from UK research libraries. There are already over 50,000 books and journal issues in the Medical Heritage Library drawn from North American research libraries. The UK-MHL Project will expand this collection considerably by digitising a further 15 million pages for inclusion in the collection. The Wellcome Library is incorporating these books into its own digital library, making further strides towards becoming a global online resource for the history of medicine and health. The UK-MHL Project is funded by Jisc [1], a registered charity providing digital solutions for UK education and research, and the Wellcome Trust [2]. Content for digitisation is selected from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College of Physicians of London, Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Wellcome Library, and six university libraries: King’s College London, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University College London (UCL), University of Bristol, University of Leeds and University of Glasgow. All digitisation is carried out by the Internet Archive, one of the largest digital libraries in the world, and a widely used digitisation bureau [3]. The digitisation centre is located at the Wellcome Library in London, hosting 12 digitisation units and 14 members of staff. The Internet Archive upload both metadata and digitised images to their Web site for quality control and creation of a range of image and text-based dissemination formats, making all content freely available to users at no extra cost to the content providers ..."