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Wiley Digital Archives PETER FOSTER, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, WILEY DIGITAL ARCHIVES BIBLIOTHEKARTAG WEBINAR – JUNE 2020
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Wiley Digital Archives mission Wiley Digital Archives offers unique primary sources in Science, Medicine, and Environmental History digitised from some of the world’s most prestigious learned societies and universities, and makes them accessible on a user-friendly platform equipped with leading digital humanities tools to: • support current research; • open research possibilities unavailable before by facilitating access to unique materials; • enhance multidisciplinary studies by aggregating content across sources; • enable easy, efficient and meaningful discovery of critical archival content; • Enable researchers to focus on insightful rather than time-consuming work; and • elevate the classroom experience by bringing visual analyses, data, and unique archival materials to student’s desktops.
Discover, restore, catalogue Wiley Digital Archives is working to identify, restore, preserve and catalogue archives from the most influential societies in the world to enable researches to investigate previously inaccessible content. Royal College of Royal College of New York Academy of Royal Anthropological Physicians: Mold Physicians: Sciences: Institute: Vacuum Manuscript Repair Cataloguing Mold Cleaning on Photos
Inside the archives
Full-text, browse-able searchable content includes primary sources
across a range of formats:
• Manuscripts • Monographs • Personal Papers
• Maps • Fieldwork • Reports
• Administrative • Correspondence • Grey Literature
Records • Photographs • Ephemera
• Periodicals • Illustrations • Books
• Data • Proceedings • Blueprints
• Newspapers
Disciplines and perspectives
As new and varied collections are added to the platform, Wiley Digital Archives enables
researchers to examine areas of interest through the lens of many disciplines.
Scientific perspective
NY Academy of Sciences
Medical Issues Medical perspective
*Effects or Use of Radiation Royal College of Physicians
Effects of radiation on indigenous peoples
Royal Anthropological Institute
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Wiley Digital Archives Portfolio Archives
Partner Archive:
Royal College of Physicians
• Founded in 1518 by a Royal Charter from King Henry VIII, it’s the oldest medical
college in England.
• A professional body for physicians, it has 37,000 members and fellows.
• Plays a key role in setting and raising medical standards, influencing the way that
healthcare is designed and delivered.
• It’s a key organization in the history and development of modern Western medicine.
Royal College of Physicians: What’s Inside
• c.2M pages covering medical history and medical humanities from 1205 to 1980.
• Over 150 books from the library of John Dee.
• Early medical textbooks dating back to the 1480s.
• Works by Galen, the 2nd century Greek physician who wrote some of the earliest surviving texts on
anatomy.
• The diaries and letters of Edward Jenner, known as the “The Father of Immunology,”
• 19th century World Health survey questionnaires
• A letter from Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first female doctor in England.
• Andreas Vesalius’ illustrated masterwork, De humani corporis fabrica.
• Centuries of folk medicine practice contained in ‘recipe’ booksRoyal College of Physicians RCP: Manifestations of Cholera at RCP: Thomas Bateman Water RCP: Autographed letter from Sea Map Color; Drawing: Diseases Elizabeth Garrett
Rosenmüller, Christian Johann. “Chirurgisch - Anatomische “Archiv Fur Medizinische Erfahrung Im Gebiete Der Abbildungen Für Ärzte Und Wundärzte.” RCP Library, Im Praktischen Medizin, Chirurgie, Geburtshülfe Und Verlage Des F. S. Privil. Landes-Industris-Comptoirs, 1806. Staatsarzneikunde.” RCP Library, bei G. Reimer, 1827.
Partner Archive:
Royal Geographical Society (with IGB)
• Founded in 1830, Royal Charter granted by Queen Victoria in 1859
• The Society successfully advocated for the inclusion of geography in
schools and first university positions in the discipline.
• Holds the world’s largest private collection of maps and charts,
featuring all parts of the world, along with atlases, globe, world
gazetteers, and original manuscript mapping.
• Notable members include John Hannon Speke, David Livingstone,
Robert Falcon Scott, Stanley, Ernest Shackleton, Edmund Hillary.
• Global membership of 16,000+Royal Geographical Society (with IGB): What’s Inside
• Years covered: 1478-1953
• Ernest Shackleton’s expeditions notes, photographs, maps and correspondence including
the culmination of the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration… and the Burberry® helmet
from his expeditions to the Antarctic.
• David Livingstone and his Search for the Source of the Nile.
• 80,000 photographs dating back to the Golden Age of Empire.
• Gertrude Bell’s work alongside rich materials about other groundbreaking female
explorers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• Photos of the oxygen sets used by Edmund Hillary on Mount Everest
• Historic images, documents and notes from the great Antarctic adventures of Robert
Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
• John Hannon Speke’s African expeditions and first 19th century maps of the continent.
• 20,000 lantern slides dating back to 1886.Royal Geographical Society Expedition of Baron von Theodore Wundt, the Dolomites A Plan of the City of Hanover, der Decken 1800
Partner Archive:
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland
• Founded in 1871 with roots back to 1837, it’s the world’s longest-
established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of
anthropology.
• On June 8th1907, the Anthropological Institute became the Royal
Anthropological Institute. Today, it has a Royal Patron in the person of HRH
The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO.
• Committed to promoting the academic/student understanding of
anthropology
• Promotes the contribution of anthropology to public affairs.
• Publishes important global journals, including the Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute, with 70% circulation outside the UK.
• Gives awards for outstanding scholarship, organizes lectures and
conferences, and manages trust funds for research.Royal Anthropological Institute: What’s Inside the Archive
• Majority of RAI archives
• Runs from ~1763 to 2016 with the bulk of material between 1817 and 1967.
• 150,000-image library of ethnographic photographs taken by anthropologists around the world
• Arthur Bernard Deacon’s personal papers
• Fieldwork and drawings of Edward Horace Man’s studies of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
• Photographs of William Buller (W.B.) Fagg, the Keeper of the Department of Anthropology at the British
Museum, and a recognized expert in African art.
• The documents of British anthropologists during WWII as compiled by the Council of the Royal
Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
• The photographs taken by Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne (1880-1944), Lady Vera Delves Broughton (1894-
1968) and daughter, Rosamond, who travelled the world in a converted Cross Channel Ferry collecting
artefacts for the British Museum.Partner Archive
New York Academy of Sciences
• Founded in 1817, has brought together extraordinary history-
makers including Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Margaret
Mead and Thomas Edison.
• Dedicated to driving innovative solutions to society’s challenges
by advancing scientific research, education and policy from
global malnutrition to improving access to STEM education in
underserved communities.
• 200,000+ members across 100 countries
• President’s Council with 36 Nobel Laureates
• Publishes Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, one of
the oldest scientific journals in the United States, among the top
five cited multidisciplinary scientific serials worldwide.New York Academy of Sciences: What’s Inside
• Entirety of NYAS archives from 1801 to 2013
• Content is almost entirely unique, from new scanning
• Correspondence, maps and materials from Survey of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
• Field notes and research from The Harbor Project, the Academy-led project in the late 1990s to
clean up toxic waste in the Hudson River.
• Files from the Committee on Human Rights of Scientists
• Records from Academy groundbreaking scientific events––including the1946 conference on the
development of antibiotics, the 1965 conference on the biological effects of asbestos, and the
world’s first conference on AIDS in 1984.Partner Archive:
British Association for the Advancement of
Science—Collections on the History of Science
• BAAS was active from 1831 to 2009, under Royal Charter since 1928.
• Embodied the organized, and successful, efforts of the British scientists to
transform science from a self-funded endeavor of the wealthy into a
government-funded professional activity at the center of the social and
economic development, and to make Britain a center for science.
• Laureates: William Ramsay, BAAS President from 1911 to 1912, received the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904. Fredrick Gowland Hopkins, President in
1933, received the Nobel Prize in 1929 for discovering vitamins.
• Charles Darwin donated his home, Down House, to the Association in 1927.
• Presidents: Kathleen Lonsdale, Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Joseph
Lister, William Hopkins, Thomas Henry Huxley, Dorothy Hodgkin, Sir
Kenneth Durham, Robert Winston, Sir Paul Nurse, Sir Adam Sedgwick, etc.British Association for the Advancement of Science—Collections on the
History of Science: What’s Inside
• Years covered: 1830s-1970s
• The ultimate interdisciplinary and interinstitutional archive documenting the History of
British Science.
• The complete BAAS archive at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library and connected
collections from 10 prestigious British Universities.
• 90% of the material is not available in a digital format anywhere else.
• The collections from the ten university archives, 75% of the total content, were selected
and curated on the recommendation of prominent academics in History of Science.
• 200,000 pages of unpublished BAAS material providing a year-by-year chronology of the
history of British science.
• Press clippings, invitations, notes and photographs of each BAAS annual meeting from the
first decade of the 20th century through the 1940s.
• Materials on and by some of the big names in British science, such as Kathleen Lonsdale,
Joseph Norman Lockyer, Charles Darwin, William Ramsay, Baron Kelvin, Charles Babbage,
William Whewell, James Forbes, Horace Lamb, William Henry Bragg.Wiley Digital Archives Platform Tools and Features
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students derive from primary source content. Functionalities include:
• Textual analysis tools for concordance, collocation, popularity,
relationships and frequency distribution of terms across
archives, disciplines and timelines.
• Geo-tagged maps, even those drawn by hand, can be overlaid
with current coordinates and downloaded as geotiff files to use
within GIS software suites.
• Exportable, fielded datasets for charts, tables, statistics from
printed or handwritten sources.
• Typeset materials can be downloaded as images or as OCR text
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