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Codebreakers, a website hosted by London's Wellcome Library that went online in March 2013, illustrates both the pleasures and the dangers of online archives. The result of a £3.9 million digitization effort, the heart of the site is about a million pages of documents, mostly relating to the history of DNA and molecular biology, all freely accessible to scholars. The site aggregates document collections from the Wellcome's own archives and four other institutions. Twenty-two leading figures in genetics, eugenics, biochemistry, and molecular biology are represented. The showpiece of a major redesign for the entire Wellcome Library site, Codebreakers splashily drives home the point that no library today is investing more in medical history than the Wellcome.
The pleasures are many. Any archive rat with an Internet connection can rummage through the file cabinets of James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, the British Eugenics Society, Francis Galton, and many others. The collections contain correspondence, photographs, reprints, lab notebooks, and administrative memoranda, some of it never before available to...