The Wellcome Trust Medical Journals Backfiles Digitization Project

Medical Journals Backfiles Digitization Project
Overview

The Wellcome Trust, in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) are working together on a project to digitize the complete backfiles of a number of important and historically significant medical journals. The digitized content will be made freely available on the Internet – via PubMed Central – and augment the content already available there. The Wellcome Library exists as a resource to provide access to the documentary record of medicine. This project is one way of translating that vision into the digital age.
The project will commence in Spring 2004 and we anticipate that all the journals we plan to digitize will be available online by Spring 2006. However, as journals are digitized they will be made available, so we predict that the first few titles digitized under this project will be online early in 2005.
To learn more about this project see the accompanying FAQ page, the press release and list of participating journals to include.....
Annals of Surgery
Biochemical Journal
Journal of Physiology
Medical History

Robert Kiley
Head of Systems Strategy – Wellcome Library
June 2004