Visit the Medical Heritage Library collection at Internet Archive.
There are several different ways you can access titles in the Medical Heritage Library through our Internet Archive website.
Our homepage features a variety of search functions: you can use the general Internet Archive search at the top of the page or you can browse the MHL’s collection by subject, author, or title.
If you choose to browse through the collection, you can either browse the whole collection at once or you can look at the list of subject keywords. The subject keywords are generated in an alphabetical list that also notes the number of volumes that use each word, as below:
This list changes and updates constantly as volumes are added to our library and is always worth checking out to see what new and unusual topics we’re covering. It can also be helpful if you know what topic you want but do not have a specific title in mind. Click any topic link and you’ll get a list of the titles in that topic. You can click into any title that catches your eye or follow further keywords from titles with more than one.
Clicking into “Sexually transmitted diseases” or “Naval Medicine” will take you to a further set of titles and you can go on from there!
Returning to the main MHL website, you can choose to look through the collection by using either the “Author” or “Title” browse functions:
Clicking into any letter will take you to a further listing under that letter:
You can select an individual title for further reading or choose one of the subject headings below the title to continue browsing.
Additionally, you can refine your search further from the results page. For example,
As you can see from this screenshot, you can sort your results by a variety of factors including date, relevance, and collection or mediatype (helpful if you have the results you want and would prefer to have only texts or only videos).
This can also be useful to look for creators or further collections that might be of interest in your search.
