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L Sultzbaugh. 1999-11-18. Challenge for global e-journal project.. https://doi.org/10.1038/46151
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Unprecedented access to the archives of Francis Crick, just before the 50th anniversary next year of his famous paper co-authored with James Watson on the proposed double helix structure of DNA, looks set to go ahead. Nigel Williams reports.
Paper journals--and books--will continue to exist, despite the digital revolution. Electronic media are superior for storage and retrieval of information, but far less so for intellectual digestion. The Dutch Journal of Medicine is proud of its recently completed electronic archive, in the form of digital images (1857-1985) and full text (from 1986 onwards). At the same time the Journal's supporting Society cherishes a valuable book collection, with some 700 titles before the year 1800 alone. Recently, a curator and a professional librarian were appointed. Part of the Society's assets have been transferred to a special fund for the support of projects on the borderline between medicine and other disciplines, such as history, philosophy, sociology and art.
The archives and minutes of the Ophthalmological Society have now been donated to the Medical History Museum of the University of Copenhagen. The first two minutes in the archives are hand-written and cover the period 1900-52. The third minute, mainly typewritten, goes up to 1971. The rest consists of papers, photos, albums, correspondence, gifts etc. Also mentioned are venues for the meetings from Kongens Nytorv (Royal New Square) to various hospitals in Copenhagen etc., finances, many celebrations, meetings, demonstrations, discussions relating to papers, Nordic meetings, relations with opticians, engineers (lighting), printing and certificates (driving, seamen). The archives call for further investigation.