Resources for Research and Education - Wiley Digital Archives

- Fact Sheet
British Association for the Advancement of Science Fact Sheet
June 27, 2020
The complete archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science archive connects with collections from prestigious British universities selected by a team of leading History of Science scholars.
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- Case Study
How Old Wives’ Tales Helped Cure Scurvy
April 8, 2020
Dr. Philippa Hellawell from King’s College London writes about her work researching the history of scurvy using primary sources from the archive of the Royal College of Physicians.
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- Syllabus
History of the Scientific Revolution in Western Europe — WDA in the Classroom
March 25, 2020
A Syllabus Integrating Wiley Digital Archives’ Primary Sources Into Study Materials and Classroom Activities.
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- Training
Training Hub
March 1, 2020
Would you like to learn more, find more resources, sign up for a training session? Visit the Training Hub–browse the library of videos and materials, check the calendar, find technical support.
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- Case Study
A Look Back at the History of Family Planning from the Archives of the Royal College of Physicians
December 27, 2019
Dr. Laura Robson-Mainwaring, a Health Records Specialist at The National Archives, writes about looking at the Royal College of Physicians archive to explore original documents concerning the history of family planning.
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- Lookbook
Inside the Archive of the Royal Geographical Society
December 14, 2019
An inside look into the digital archive of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) to explore how Geography affects people, cultures, places, environment, and how they interact.
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- Coursework
Teaching with Primary Sources: RAI
December 12, 2019
Classroom activities to support virtual teaching and foster distant learning and collaboration with primary sources from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
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- Coursework
Teaching with Digital Archives: RGS
December 11, 2019
Curriculum activities to support classroom and virtual teaching, and foster distant learning and collaboration with primary sources from the Royal Geographical Society.
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- Coursework
Teaching with Primary Sources: RCP
December 9, 2019
Curriculum activities to support classroom and virtual teaching, and foster distant learning and collaboration with primary sources from the Royal College of Physicians.
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- Coursework
Teaching with Digital Archives: NYAS
September 10, 2019
Curriculum activities to support classroom and virtual teaching, and foster distant learning and collaboration with primary sources from the New York Academy of Sciences.
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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

Resources

British Association for the Advancement of Science Fact Sheet

June 27, 2020

How Old Wives’ Tales Helped Cure Scurvy

April 8, 2020

History of the Scientific Revolution in Western Europe — WDA in the Classroom

March 25, 2020

Training Hub

March 1, 2020

A Look Back at the History of Family Planning from the Archives of the Royal College of Physicians

December 27, 2019

Inside the Archive of the Royal Geographical Society

December 14, 2019

Teaching with Primary Sources: RAI

December 12, 2019

Teaching with Digital Archives: RGS

December 11, 2019

Teaching with Primary Sources: RCP

December 9, 2019

Teaching with Digital Archives: NYAS

September 10, 2019

What people are saying

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