Recommended Resources

This page lists Web sites recommended by NYAM librarians which can be used to start your research. Please see our databases for more in-depth research. Questions? Ask a librarian.

This page is updated quarterly. Last update: 5/14/2013.

Materials obtained through the New York Academy of Medicine Library are for general information purposes only and cannot replace the care of a medical professional. Please consult your physician on specific medical questions.

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The Atlas of Early Printing

An interactive map on the history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

A portal to online library and museum resources.

Google Books

Offers many digitized volumes of historical medical texts.

Hathi Trust Digital Library

A partnership of major research institutions and libraries offering more than 10 million digitized volumes.

Health/PAC Digital Archive

Full-text searchable archive of the Health Policy Advisory Center (Health/PAC) Bulletin, which provides a history of American health policy and politics from 1968–1994.

Images from the History of Medicine

Collection from the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

IndexCat

The online index of items—mostly journal articles, books, dissertations, pamphlets, and reports—in the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office published between 1880 and 1950. The site also allows users to search indices of Medieval Latin and English texts.

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive Text Archive contains some full-text historical medical texts.

Medical Heritage Library

A digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries that provides free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine.

NYAM Digital Collections

Materials from the Library's rare book room and historical collections that have been digitized for online research and enjoyment.

Open Library

A project of the Internet Archive, the Open Library houses more than 20 million book records, with some free public-domain ebooks provided.

Project Gutenberg

Free public-domain ebooks, including medical texts.

Wellcome Images

Access to 40,000 high-quality clinical and biomedical science images, including historical images.

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