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    • Infographic

    Wiley Digital Archives by the Numbers

    March 10, 2023

    Since its launch in 2018, Wiley Digital Archives has grown substantially. View the infographic here for a breakdown of content types, special collections, and years covered across the six archives.

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    Additional Published Research for Corporations and Government

    March 10, 2023

    Connecting researchers across all industries and fields to advance knowledge and research is what Wiley does best. Digital backfiles ensure that older content, such as maps, surveys, letters, and research articles, allow researchers at any institution to trace their respective subject back centuries.

    Learn how our other Wiley products can help your Research and Development team.

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    • Fact Sheet

    Collections within the Environmental Science and History archive

    September 23, 2022

    This archive focuses on the critical aspects of environmental science, history and anthropogenic change and includes unique and rare archival collections from multiple global sources. Environmental Science and History will be comprised of approximately one million pages and will include collections that will cover a wide range of topics which are especially valuable to researchers studying agriculture, environmental science, climate change, deforestation, botany, and biodiversity.

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    • Fact Sheet

    Collections within the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) archive

    September 23, 2022

    This archive contains more than 150,000 maps, charts and atlases complemented by manuscripts, field notes, expedition reports, scrapbooks, correspondence, diaries, illustrations, and sketches from some of history’s most influential geographers and explorers. The digitized collections within this archive contain materials and datasets which are especially valuable to researchers studying the history of geography, history of exploration, world history and politics, history of empire and colonialism, environmental studies, and earth sciences.

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    • Fact Sheet

    Collections within the Royal College of Physicians archive

    September 23, 2022

    This archive reflects the history and development of modern Western medicine, while documenting the interactions of the medical community with monarchs, politicians, and the general public. The digitized collections within this archive contain materials and datasets which are especially valuable to researchers studying the history of medicine, public health and policy, mental health and PTSD, gender studies, world health and government, religion, pandemics, and the history of vaccination.

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    • Fact Sheet

    Collections within the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland archive

    September 23, 2022

    This archive contains nearly one million pieces of unique content, including research data, papers, fieldwork, drawings and photographs, and a wealth of previously uncatalogued material. The digitized collections within this archive contain materials and datasets which are especially valuable to researchers studying the history of anthropology, religion, race and culture, world history and politics, the history of empire and colonialism, and gender studies.

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    • Fact Sheet

    Collections within the New York Academy of Sciences archive

    September 23, 2022

    Founded in 1817 with a mission to drive innovative solutions to society’s challenges by advancing scientific research, education and policy, this archive connects the works, thoughts and interactions of some of the most brilliant minds of the time. The digitized collections within this archive contain materials and datasets which are especially valuable to researchers studying the history of science, medical research, environmental studies, world history, and the history of human civil rights.

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    • Fact Sheet

    Collections within the British Association for the Advancement of Science archive

    September 1, 2022

    This archive connects the works, thoughts and interactions of the most influential scientists of the time and documents the history of British science from the 1830s through the 1970s across disciplines and universities. The digitized collections within this archive contain materials and data sets which are especially valuable to researchers studying the history of science, environmental studies, world history, politics, and the history of empire and colonialism.

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    • Case Study

    Dr. Catherine Oliver, recipient of the Wiley Digital Archives Research Fellowship, takes a closer look at the animals inside of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) archives

    May 20, 2022

    Dr. Catherine Oliver is a geographer based at the University of Cambridge. In 2020, Dr Catherine Oliver was awarded a Wiley Research Fellowship in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), which provided her with access to their digitized archives via the Wiley Digital Archive platform. Learn more about her experience using the WDA platform and the images she uncovered.

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    Inside the Archive of the Royal Geographical Society, Part I

    September 15, 2021

    Take a look inside Part I of the digital archive of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) to explore how Geography affects people, cultures, places, environment, and how they interact. Part I contains collections from 1482 – 1899.

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What people are saying

  • “I used the typeset transcripts feature, as some of the handwriting was difficult to read. Thanks to the on-screen citations tab, I could keep an ongoing bibliography for my notes.”

    Ann-Marie Richardson

    PhD Candidate AHRC North West Consortium Funded Researcher with The Royal Society

    Lancaster University

  • "The Wiley Digital Archives interface is seamless and has a crisp, clean look. Clutter is a distracting feature of many databases, so it was enjoyable to smoothly browse these archives without running into interruptions, rather focusing on the substance. The content is incredible and can add enormous value to my research work in the history and evolution of healthcare."

    Tommy Flynn

    RN, CPNP-AC | Ph.D. Candidate, Nursing

    Emory University

  • “With the search terms I use, the collocations tool gives me a better sense of what is available in the archives. I’m able to click on a word and quickly be led to other information, to access a larger, macro view, and there can be real value in that.”

    Dr. Catherine Nichols

    Department of Anthropology and Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities

    Loyola University Chicago

  • “The WDA platform is a wonderful resource, bringing together numerous collections and enabling cross-referencing across multiple archives.”

    Mobeen Hussain

    co-Editor in Chief--Doing History in Public

    PhD Candidate, World History--University of Cambridge

  • “The search functions in Wiley Digital Archives are particularly good for the type of research I do. I can cross-reference my current inventories of Livingstone’s mentions of the word “women” very quickly, and the horizontality of the search process enables me to happen upon other works of interest that I might not have found otherwise. The malleability of this search function, in combination with the quality of the Wiley’s OCR, has facilitated fast, comprehensive data access—and underscores the value that these records can bring to the understanding of the socio-cultural makeup of exploration.“

    Dr. Kathryn Simpson

    Lecturer

    University of Glasgow

  • “Wiley Digital Archives are always available, so there are no time limitations. Just as important, it opens the access to Society Archives to independent scholars or researchers at schools that don’t have the funding for extensive travel.”

    Sarah M. Pickman

    Ph.D. Candidate—History of Science and Medicine Program

    Yale University

  • “The RAI’s archive is the unique repository of Arthur Bernard Deacon’s original reproductions, which have been included by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Register in 2013.”

    Jacopo Baron

    PhD Candidate Doctoral School of Social Anthropology and Ethnology

    EHESS of Paris

  • “Wiley Digital Archives presents extremely robust features and tools for users. The dense archival collections are highly navigable with rich metadata and advanced filtering functionality. The range of exploration and analysis tools present users with innovative ways to explore within—and across—archives and collections.”

    Maria Smith

    Center for Research Libraries

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