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Carol Parry*

The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to 19,852 descriptions of archives held in more than 150 UK universities and colleges. I mentioned the Hub briefly in the October 2002 edition of the Newsletter and since that date the amount of archive material entered on the site has expanded greatly so it’s well worth another look. Previously only Higher Education Institutes have been allowed to enter archive collections but the rules have been changed and the Royal Colleges are now allowed to add their descriptions. Royal medical college contributors to date are the Royal College of Surgeons of London and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (so far only a few of the Glasgow Colleges’ collections are on the hub but more will follow). It’s an excellent place to look for archive material on the history of dentistry. Details of the archives of Dundee Dental Hospital and the Dental Hospitals and Schools of both Edinburgh and Glasgow are provided on the site as well as details relating to papers of individual dentists. The website can be accessed at: http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/

American Dental Journals Online - Dental Cosmos

An electronic version of Dental Cosmos, a Monthly Record of Dental Science is now available on the web. Published in Philadelphia, U.S.A., the first issue of the journal was in August 1859. The editors J.D. White, J.H. McQuillen and Geo. J. Ziegler started out with high expectations. In the opening article entitled “Our Enterprise,” they state that their plan is “to embrace in its details all the useful facts of professional experience which can be gathered – all the improved modes of practice, which the best heads and hands are constantly developing; the chemistry, metallurgy and mechanics of the art, in whatever they are useful or promising; and along with all this, due place will be given to theory, discussion, criticism, to history, biography and bibliography, as they can best be blended and arrayed for profitable consideration.” The editors were so successful in their aims that the journal is considered one of the most significant journals in the early history of American dentistry and its original source articles are still cited and considered classics in the field.

Dental Cosmos can be found at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dencos/

Angle Orthodontist
Angle Orthodontist is a bimonthly produced international journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics which serves as the official publication of the Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists. Full-text access is available dating back to the first Volume for 1931 and the journal can be searched or browsed by keyword and issue. Edward H. Angle, a pioneer in orthodontic education, was born in 1855 in Pennsylvania. Graduating from the Pennsylvania College of Dentistry in 1876, he was appointed to the Chair of Orthodontia at the University of Minnesota in 1885.He was the founder of the Edward H. Angle College of Orthodontia in California. The Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists was founded in 1922 and the Angle Orthodontist was established and brought into being by action by the society in 1930 as a memorial to Dr. Angle.

Angle Orthodontist is available at http://www.angle.org/anglonline/?request=index-html

* Carol Parry, BA, DAA, Archivist, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow email carol.parry@rcpsg.ac.uk

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