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The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the latest release of its History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/consortium/index.html), a search-and-discovery tool for archival resources in the health sciences that are described by finding aids and held by various institutions throughout the United States. As with the initial release the new content crawled consists of finding aids delivered as EAD, PDF and HTML from a diverse institutional cohort. NLM is the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health.

The site now indexes over 1,600 finding aids from 12 institutions.

The new content contributors are:

Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center, Archives and Special Collections
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library
Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine
Yale University Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

These institutions join the original consortium members:

NLM History of Medicine Division
Columbia University Health Sciences Library
Medical Archives, Johns-Hopkins University Medical Institutions
University of California-San Francisco
University of Virginia Health Sciences Library
Virginia Commonwealth University

For more information about the project or requests to join the Consortium, please contact John P. Rees, Archivist and Digital Resources Manager, NLM, at [log in to unmask].