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Illuminating the Past: Exploring Global Knowledge Through Wiley Digital Archives

Join us for a journey across centuries of discovery, culture, and scholarship through the Wiley Digital Archives. This session will showcase how researchers, educators, and students can access and explore rare and previously inaccessible primary sources from leading institutions such as the Royal College of Physicians, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Anthropological Institute.

We’ll highlight themes that transcend individual collections—such as the documentation of scientific breakthroughs, cultural rituals, and global health—and demonstrate how WDA’s intuitive platform enables cross-collection discovery through full-text search, metadata-rich navigation, and diverse formats including manuscripts, maps, photographs, field notes, and ephemera.

Whether you're researching lunar calendars, botanical specimens, or the evolution of medical knowledge, this webinar will equip you with strategies to uncover insights across disciplines and geographies. Perfect for librarians, faculty, and researchers looking to enrich their teaching and scholarship with unique archival content.

About Our Presenter: Ray Abruzzi is the Senior Director for AI Product Management at Wiley. Ray’s work is in optimizing Wiley’s content for AI models and agents, licensing Wiley’s content into AI models for training, fine-tuning, and inference applications to support research and education. Ray is also the Publisher for Wiley Digital Archives, a program digitizing archival collections from learned societies and professional organizations in STEM. Prior to his role in AI, Ray managed Wiley’s Social Sciences and Humanities portfolio of journals, and Ray’s background in the digital humanities has provided a good footing for working across Wiley’s AI strategy. Ray is also the Sustaining Editor of the Columbia Journal of History, and an advisor on HistoryLab.