The Medical Heritage Library ( MHL ) is a digital curation collaborative among several medical libraries which promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. The MHL is currently digitizing books and journals and is working to expand to the digitization of archival materials and still images. In 2010, the MHL began digitizing titles, mainly monographs, in a variety of medical history and related fields including chemistry , nursing, dentistry, audiology, physiology , psychology, psychiatry, biological science, hydrotherapy, weather, veterinary medicine , gardening, physical culture, and alternative medicine chosen for their scholarly, educational, and research value. Since the inception of the project, materials in audio and video formats have been added to the collection.
12-577: The MHL works to: The MHL maintains a blog , Twitter account , and Facebook page to interact with researchers, librarians, archivists, students, and the interested general public about the MHL collections, the history of medicine, digital humanities, and related topics. The MHL began digitization of monographs in 2010 with an initial grant from the Sloan Foundation . Work on the MHL project has continued with funding support from collaborating institutions,
24-550: A Tax Institute at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to interpret new taxes and new trends in public finance for the average citizen. From 1936 to 1945, Harold S. Sloan , an economist and Alfred's younger brother, served as director and vice president of the foundation. The Sloan Foundation also made many civic contributions to the foundation's home city of New York, including grants to Lincoln Center for
36-467: A full-text search tool for use by researchers. The tool allows users to search the full-text of one or more items simultaneously. The tool is in an extended beta release and comments or questions are welcome! The UK Medical Heritage Library started in 2014 with nine digitisation partners in England and Scotland, including [UCL] (University College London), the [University of Leeds], the [University of Glasgow],
48-510: Is available here. Titles have been chosen for their scholarly, educational, and research value. The MHL consults with a volunteer group of scholars in the history of medicine and related fields and surveys its users regularly. As of August 2014, the collection consists of nearly 60,000 items including monographs, journals, audio and video on topics including surgery , public health, infectious diseases , gynecology , psychology, anatomy , neuroscience , tobacco, and homeopathy. The MHL has created
60-693: The National Endowment for the Humanities ( announcement ), and the Mellon Foundation via a program administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources ( announcement ). All digitized works are located at the Internet Archive . The collection includes books, pamphlets, journals, and video and audio recordings in the history of medicine and related fields. A working list of subject headings
72-490: The MHL portal at the Internet Archive and searchable through the full-text search tool described above. Original members of the collaborative formed in 2010 are: Content contributors have joined the project regularly since 2011; the MHL continues to seek additional content contributors. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization . It
84-649: The Performing Arts , Channel 13 , New York Public Library , New York University , and the Fund for the City of New York . Starting January 2018, Adam Falk, past president of Williams College, assumed the presidency of the foundation. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants in seven broad subjects, known within the foundation as major program areas: The Sloan Work and Family Researchers Network supports research and education about work-family issues. The foundation also funded
96-470: The [London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine], [King's College London], and the [University of Bristol] - along with the libraries of the [Royal College of Physicians of London], the [Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh], and the [Royal College of Surgeons of England]. The original partnership is between the [Wellcome Library] and [Jisc]. Material digitized by the UK MHL project is also available through
108-824: The foundation awarded a $ 3 million grant to the Wikimedia Foundation . It made additional grants in July 2011 and January 2017. The Sloan Foundation is the primary funder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey , a major astronomical survey that began data collection in 2000. In 1945, the Sloan Foundation donated $ 4 million to launch the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, now the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In 1950,
120-488: The initial years of Alfred P. Sloan ’s presidency, the foundation devoted its resources almost exclusively to education in economics and business. Grants were made to develop materials to improve high school and college economics teaching; for preparation of and wide distribution of inexpensive pamphlets on the pressing economic and social issues of the day; for weekly radio airing of round table discussions on current topics in economics and related subjects; and for establishing
132-488: The national workplace flexibility campaign as part of the Working Families program led by Kathleen E. Christensen . The Sloan Research Fellowships are annual awards given to more than 126 young researchers and university faculty, to further studies in chemistry , computational and evolutionary microbiology, computer science , economics , mathematics , neuroscience , ocean sciences and physics . In March 2008,
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#1732869882192144-418: Was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. , then-president and chief executive officer of General Motors . The Sloan Foundation makes grants to support original research and broad-based education related to science, technology, and economics. The foundation is an independent entity and has no formal relationship with General Motors. As of 2022, the Sloan Foundation's assets totaled $ 2.0 billion. During
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