Archives digitisation

Overview

The ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations Project’ began in January 2010 and will see the digitisation of up to half a million images from the Library's archival holdings.

One of the collections included in this project is the substantial Francis Crick archive - nearly 300 boxes of scientific papers spanning Crick's DNA and neurobiology research, including draft articles and books, lectures, research notes, and extensive correspondence with Crick's scientific colleagues and the general public. Other notable people and organisations include the papers of Fred Sanger, Arthur Ernest Mourant, the Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit, Honor Fell, the Eugenics Society, and Carlos Paton Blacker.

In order to develop this digital resource, collections, or parts thereof, will not be available to readers for consultation in the Rare Materials reading room during preparation and digitisation. We will keep readers informed about affected collections through the archives digitisation schedule. If you have any queries please see the archives digitisation FAQs or contact the Archives and Manuscripts team at arch+mss@wellcome.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)20 7611 8899.

The Library’s policy on access to personal data has been reviewed in light of providing online access to digitised archive material. This policy has been drawn up in consultation with the Information Commissioner’s Office and an advisory panel consisting of staff from the Wellcome Trust and external bodies including The National Archives.

All digitised content will be made freely available via the Wellcome websites can be reused under a Creative Commons licence.

Archives digitisation schedule

Archives digitisation content list

Archives digitisation access

Archives digitisation FAQ

Digitising the archives: the Wellcome Library approach