Wellcome Library launches open access fund for Library users
The Wellcome Library today launched an open access fund to enable users to publish their papers, monographs and book chapters in open access form.
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New head of Wellcome Library appointed
A new Head of the Wellcome Library - which is part of Wellcome Collection in central London - has been appointed. Dr Simon Chaplin started his new position at the beginning…
Rare surgeon portrait acquired by Wellcome Library
The Wellcome Library in London has added to its collection of drawings with the acquisition of a magnificent portrait drawing of the French surgeon Ange-Bernard Imbert-…
Wellcome Library's digital player is made freely available
The Wellcome Library’s innovative digital player, the piece of software that is used to 'play' digitised content, is now freely available for anyone to download and use.
We created a library to help address inequities in funding
Our funding practices do not always lead to the equitable outcomes we hope for. Gearoid Maguire in our Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team introduces an innovative…
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Gearóid Maguire
UK National Data Library: Technical White Paper Challenge
Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are seeking technical visions and architectures for a UK National Data Library to make public sector datasets…
Million-page story of modern genetics launched by the Wellcome Library
The papers of the pioneers of modern genetics - including Francis Crick, James D Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin - have been collected together for the first…
Wellcome Library pledges support for Knowledge Unlatched open access project
Wellcome Library has signed up to a new open access pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU aims to make a collection of books, covering a wide range of humanities and…
Wellcome Library and Jisc announce partners in 19th-century medical books digitisation project
The Wellcome Library and Jisc today announce nine partner institutions whose 19th-century book collections will be digitised and added to the UK Medical Heritage Library (UK…
ALCS and PLS provide innovative rights identification service for Wellcome Library digitisation project
The Wellcome Library has embarked on a major programme to digitise its collection of key books relating to the history of modern genetics and make them available online for…
Jisc and Wellcome Library partnership to create comprehensive online resource for the history of medicine
The Wellcome Library and Jisc have strengthened their successful working relationship by signing a new three-year agreement that will enable the digitisation of more than 10…
NCT archive preserved by the Wellcome Library documents 60 years of maternity care and childbirth
The archive of NCT (National Childbirth Trust) documenting 60 years of the organisation's history, has been catalogued by the Wellcome Library and is available to access for…
Wellcome Library funds a new partnership to digitise 800,000 pages of mental health archives
Over 800,000 pages of archival material from psychiatric hospitals in the UK from the 18th to the 20th centuries will be digitised and made freely available online as part of…
Wellcome Library and NLM establish agreement to make 150 years of biomedical journals freely available online
Representatives of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, and the Wellcome Library have signed a memorandum of…
Research Resources Awards in Humanities and Social Science (Closed)
Helping collection and information professionals develop library and archive material for humanities and social science researchers.
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Supporting individuals working on small and medium-scale research projects that focus on library or archive collections supported by the Wellcome Trust.
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Archives from the pioneers of modern genetics to be brought together for the first time
The Wellcome Library is to bring the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, ‘…
Historic Arabic medical manuscripts go online
Researchers may now search and browse the Wellcome Library’s Arabic manuscripts using groundbreaking functionalities in a new online resource that brings together rich…
London’s Pulse opens up the capital’s health records
From smallpox to sun lamps, the health of London and Londoners over 125 years is uncovered with London’s Pulse, an ambitious digitisation project from the Wellcome Library…