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Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is a digital library collection created under the Harward University Library Open Collections Program. It brings together a unique set of resources from Harvard University libraries -- over 500,000 pages of digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts -- to offer valuable insights into the historical context for current epidemiology and contribute to the understanding of the global, social-hisotry, and public-policy implications of disease.

U.S. National Library of Medicine has understaken a great
number of digital projects to create free online archives of
biomedical resources that are in the public domain, and make
them freely available worldwide. This web page has a list
of the NIH digital projects and allows users to browse and
identify relevant digital resources by subject.

The Digital Collections is the National Library of
Medicine's free online archive of biomedical books and
videos. All of the content in Digital Collections is freely
available worldwide and, unless otherwise indicated, in the
public domain. Digital Collections provides unique access to
NLM's rich, historical resources.

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) is a database of
over 70,000 images in the U.S. National Library of
Medicine's historical collections. The collections include
portraits, photographs, fine prints, caricatures, genre
scenes, posters, and other graphic art, which illustrate
the social and historical aspects of medicine from the
Middle Ages to the present. Subjects range from medieval
medical practice and 19th-century slum conditions to World
War I hospitals and the international fight against drug

This database project studies the first wave of postcards
with a Chinese subject. Users not only find images of the
postcards, but also their historical context information
about what they are, who produced them and where, how they
were used, and what's their significance. The growing
collection focuses on early (1896-1920) postcards of China
with the bulk back to the time of the late imprial (before
1911). It has stopped updating in 2004 and the 462 images
the site hosts are available to view and download.

Previously known as the Political Sicence Review, the
Taiwanese Journal of Political Science is published by the
Dept. of Political Sicence of the National Taiwan
University, and is a key academic journal on political
science. The journal was originally issued biannually, but
since June, 2004, it has been published on a quarterly
basis.

The database contains two parts: Digital Silkroad Museum and
Silk Road: Spatialtemoral platform Sino-India cultural
exchange. Silk Road is a link of ancient cultural, business,
religion, and art, exist in the past and present even in the
future, always in people's minds. Sincerely invite you to
join the research community of Silk Road culture, to discuss
and exchange together.

This research network brings together scholars in the UK,
China, other parts of Asia, Europe and the USA who are
working on film festivals in Chinese-language territories
and cultures (including the People's Republic, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, and elsewhere). It aims to interrogate the rapid
growth of Chinese film festivals from a cultural translation
perspective?

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the
Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format,
significant primary materials from countries and cultures
around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are
to: Promote international and intercultural understanding;
Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the
Internet; Provide resources for educators, scholars, and
general audiences; Build capacity in partner institutions to
narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

This volume is one in a continuing series of books
prepared by the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area
Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of
the Army. It is edited by Robert L. Worden, Andrea
Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan and Library of
Congress Call Number is DS706 .C489 1988.