New European Library portal goes live

The European Library's new portal has gone live, with this video showcasing its best features.

Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, you can now cross-search nearly 10 million digital items from 48 national and research libraries across Europe.

We’ve bloggedbeforeabout the Wellcome Library’s contributions to Europeana Libraries. We make our material available in the European Library through the Europeana Libraries project. In fact, our collections make an appearance in the new video at 1m 10s, Orthopaedic exercises for curvature of the spine, from Wellcome Film, and at 1m 26s, Engraving of a flea (from Micrographia), from Wellcome Images.

5 million manuscripts, films and texts…

…that’s what Europeana Libraries will be contributing to Europeana over the next two years.

The Europeana Libraries project kicked off last week and the Wellcome Library was there to be involved right from the start.

Europeana Libraries will add 5 million digital objects to the 15 million already available at Europeana. The Wellcome Library will be contributing images and films in the area of the history of science and medicine.

Europeana Libraries will make significant European cultural objects, such as letters from Immanuel Kant and the Wellcome Library’s own medical science films, more easily available to everyone from humanities and social science researchers to the general public.

You can read more in the Europeana Libraries press release.