Thursday, November 1, 2007

Where have all the JAMAs gone?

To India to be digitized!

We have sacrificed some of our very old JAMAs and Archives volumes for a digitization effort by the American Medical Association. In return for those beloved, historic volumes we get something great: Permanent electronic access to JAMA and 7 Archives titles from their first volumes to 1997. This will make those collections much more accessible than ever before, and preserve them while the paper copies will one day deteriorate beyond use. We will not get the donated volumes back, but in the mean time, before they are digitized, we will be able to borrow the articles they contain from other libraries. Let us know if something you need is not on the shelf.