Fulltext Books

Over half of the books in the Vaulted Treasures: Historical Medical Books at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library are digitized and available online as ebooks. A full list is provided below with links to the author’s information and to the ebooks.

Sources: The majority of the ebooks are available through UVa Libraries’ partnership with HathiTrust Digital Library, an immense repository of digitized collections, which is searchable through Virgo (UVa’s Library Catalog). Since many of the books in Vaulted Treasures have multiple editions, you may find more ebooks through Virgo, and we’ll continue adding to the list as more of these historic sources are made available. We also welcome visitors to experience these treasures in person by visiting Historical Collections.

The Digitization Services unit of Digital Curation Services of the University of Virginia Library scanned many of the books and these feature the “Page Turner” application, which allows you to view, scroll, and zoom on the digitized pages.

A small percentage of the ebooks are available only through licensed databases provided by UVa Libraries; therefore, access is limited to UVa community members (students, faculty and staff) or guests on-site visiting UVa Libraries. For the UVa community, information about setting up off-Grounds access to these licensed databases is available at Off Grounds Use of Library Resources.

Ebooks in Vaulted Treasures: Historical Medical Books at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library: