{"id":17756,"date":"2019-10-15T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=17756"},"modified":"2024-09-30T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:05:14","slug":"nlms-profiles-in-science-exploring-the-stories-of-scientific-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2019\/10\/15\/nlms-profiles-in-science-exploring-the-stories-of-scientific-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles in Science: Exploring the Stories of Scientific Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Susan L. Speaker and Christie Moffatt ~<\/em><\/p>\n

NLM\u2019s Profiles in Science<\/a>\u00ae<\/sup> has a new look! \u00a0On September 30, 2019, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) re-launched Profiles in Science <\/em>and we\u2019re excited about new opportunities it will bring for sharing these stories of research and discovery. The new platform, integrated with NLM Digital Collections<\/a>, supports growing functionality for public access, engagement with, and sharing of these digital resources documenting the history of science, medicine, and public health in the 20th- and 21st-centuries.<\/p>\n

For those new to site, Profiles in Science <\/em>is an online archive of more than 30,000 digitized items selected from the Archives and Modern Manuscripts<\/a> collections of NLM\u2019s History of Medicine Division and from the collections of collaborating institutions. The site features over 40 collections of digital content and continues to grow. \u00a0Through primary source materials and accompanying biographical narrative texts researchers can explore stories of scientific discovery, achievements in clinical medicine, and advances in public health.\u00a0 Information about navigating the site is available on Profiles in Science <\/em>collection homepages and on our About<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

Each name on the Profiles in Science <\/em>home page links to a collection (or \u201cProfile\u201d) focused on an individual and selections from his or her personal papers. From the menu bar, \u201cThe Story\u201d provides access to in depth biographical narrative texts organized chronologically with an aim to share how the individual became interested in science, his or her career path, as well as challenges and obstacles faced along the way.\u00a0 The Michael E. DeBakey Profile<\/a>, for example, tells the story of a legendary American surgeon, educator, and medical statesman whose work transformed cardiovascular surgery, raised medical education standards, and informed national health care policy. Readers learn about Debakey\u2019s life growing up in Louisiana (where he learned to garden and his mother taught him to sew), his mentors, surgical colleagues, and the influence of his sisters Lois and Selma DeBakey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Alongside \u201cThe Story,\u201d researchers can select \u201cCollection Items\u201d from the menu bar to browse the digitized collection items in list, gallery, or slideshow views.\u00a0 You can browse all items in a Profile, or sets of documents (texts), visuals, or moving images only.\u00a0 Within the DeBakey collection you can see a variety of document types, including photographic prints, correspondence, published and unpublished articles, oral histories, diaries, and much more.\u00a0 These items tell their own stories\u2014of DeBakey\u2019s early interests in and outside of science, collaborations across the country and around the world, and engagement with the general public on matters of public health and medicine.<\/p>\n