The International Guide on Homeopathic Documentation Resources has been compiled using the data from the questionnaires completed by homeopathic libraries and documentation centres.
Whilst every effort has been made by the Documentation subcommittee to ensure accuracy of information, we cannot accept liability for omissions or inaccuracies. We would appreciate it if omissions, inaccuracies or new addresses could be reported back to us, so that we can compile another revised edition of this guide.
Since the size and facilities of each library/documentation centre vary considerably it is always advisable to check with individual persons or institutions when requesting information or documentation.
Countries
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Syndicat Professionnel des Homéopathes du Québec (SPHQ) – Centre de Références International
Address: 1600 Rue de Lorimier, Bureau 391, Montréal (Québec) H2K 3W5
Country: Canada
Phone: +1 (800) 465 5788 outside Montreal / +1 (514) 525 2037 Montreal
Email: accueil@sphq.org
Web site: http://www.sphq.org
Contact person: Person on duty at SPHQ
Financed by: Membership of SPHQ
Target group: Members of the Syndicate, all homoeopaths from Québec
Access library: Limited to members
Access fees: Still to see
Borrowing: No
Access database: Directly through the internet via the website of the association (under construction)
Profile: Studies, periodicals, bibliographies, theses, reports
No. books: To determine
No. hom. books: To determine
No. hom. reports: To determine
No. vol. hom. per.: To determine
Database name: Procite
Database content: Articles, theses, studies, reports, bibliographies
Database records: Under construction
Search options: Author, title, key words, abstracts
Indexing system: ECH Homoeopathic Thesaurus
Last update info: 04/2024
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Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy
Address: 61-65, Institution Area, D’ Block, Janakpuri, New Delhi 110 058
Country: India
Phone: +91 (11) 28525523
Fax: +91 (11) 28521060
Email: subhashkaushik@ccrhindia.nic.in, ccrhlibrary@gmail.com
Web site: http://www.ccrhindia.org/
Contact person: Dr Subash Kaushik, +91 (11) 28525388
Financed by: Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India
Target group: Physicians, research workers
Access library: Access to the physical collection and CCRH Library Consortium is limited to members; other information is open access.
Access fees: None
Borrowing: Yes
Access database: Indirectly via Mrs. Meenakshi Bhatia, Librarian in charge
Profile: Books, theses, medical databases, e-journals, digital archive repository of homeopathy, current awareness service databases. Main focus is to build homeopathy collection but also to add allied sciences literature and databases to provide support to research scientists. Most volumes are in English.
No. books: 11,402
No. hom. books: 5,250 approx
No. hom. reports:
No. vol. hom. per.:
No. of online journals subscribed: 5
Database name: Homeopathic Information & Documentation Centre (HIDOC)
The CCRH Library has developed an Online Union Catalogue as HIDOC that contains bibliographic records of books available in the various CCRH libraries and institutes/units. The catalogue lists the holdings of more than 20 CCRH libraries – http://hidocccrh.in/
CCRH Library Consortium: CCRH Library Consortium is equipped with three comprehensive medical databases, alternative science journals, medical books and more. We currently host three member organisations. All Institutes and Research Councils under the Ministry of AYUSH are members of the e-Consortium.
Archive on Homoeopathy: a digital repository of accumulated knowledge in homeopathy, being a collection of old and valuable books and journals, research articles, event impressions, annual reports, newsletters, bulletins and other grey literature from across the world, totalling 7,091 items as of March 2024 – http://aohindia.in/jspui/
Database content:
e-CHLAS covers all articles (homeopathy and allied sciences), indexed from all journals to which the library subscribes; released monthly as Current Health Literature Awareness Service – https://www.ccrhindia.nic.in/Index1.aspx?lid=7918&lsid=9991&pid=58&lev=2&Regid=0&langid=1
Research at a Glance: all articles (homeopathy and allied sciences), indexed from all journals to which the library subscribes; released monthly as Research at a Glance – https://www.ccrhindia.nic.in/Index1.aspx?lid=7918&lsid=9991&pid=58&lev=2&Regid=0&langid=1
MEDICO Abstracts: all scientific articles published in homeopathic journals, with abstracts and detailed information of author, title and source in English
BOOK: all physical books available in the library
THESIS: theses submitted by post-graduate students on the MD course
Database records: 55,000 approx
Search options: Author, title, key words
Indexing system: Self-built thesaurus
Last update info: 05/2024
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Address: Archives and Special Collections, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2900 West Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19129
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (215) 991 8340
Email: CoM_Archives@drexel.edu
Web site: https://drexel.edu/legacycenter
Contact person:
Financed by:
Target group:
Access library: Researchers by appointment only during regular hours, Monday through Friday from 9:30 to 4:30. Closed on University Holidays.
Access fees: None
Borrowing: No
Access database: Search digital materials on early homeopathy history in our digital collections database. Search books in the University Library catalog: library.drexel.edu/
Profile: Special collection “Hahnemann University & Historic and Homeopathic Medicine”
The Hahnemann Collection reflects the history of the institution and its mission. The University, founded in 1848 as the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania and later known as Hahnemann Medical College, initially educated physicians in homeopathy before gaining national prominence as an academic medical center.
The materials date from the 16th Century to the present, with an emphasis on institutional records. The collection houses records of the College and Hospital from the earliest times, including the North American Academy at Allentown (1835) and related organizations such as the Hahnemann Alumni Association, Nurses’ Alumnae Association, Hahnemann Hospital Association, various affiliated institutes and hospitals and several early homeopathic societies.
Because of the formative role played by the school in teaching the system of homeopathic medicine, the early records in particular reflect the history of homeopathy in the United States.
Collections: Search and browse the following or see additional highlights below –
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Research Guide on Early Homeopathic Medicine in the United States, 1834-1900
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Search digital materials on early homeopathy history in our digital collections database.
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Search and browse collection abstracts and finding aid descriptions.
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Browse a list of historical homeopathy texts: Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center – Homeopathy Rare Book inventory
- Records of the college and hospital from their founding, including Hahnemann University Academic Affairs records
- Early medical student theses, class notes and yearbooks
- Papers and memorabilia of founder Constantine Hering [Digital collection] [Collection description and inventory]
- Hering’s renowned collection on Paracelsus [1932 Catalog listing PDF]
- Works of homeopathic historian Thomas Bradford, including his 35-volume biographical scrapbooks on American homeopaths [Digital collection]
- The Hyland’s Foundation Neiswander Library collection – The Hyland’s Foundation Neiswander Library collection – historical and contemporary books, historical photographs, artifacts, and periodicals reflecting homeopathic practice and study, from the early 1800s to 2021. Browse inventory
- Irena Koprowska collection on American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration lung cancer screening study, (1958-1964)
- Hahnemann University photograph collection [Digital collection]
- Medical instruments and early homeopathic medicine cases
- Papers of modern pioneers in heart surgery and cardiology including Charles Bailey and William Likoff
- Historical reference collection on homeopathy
- Primary and secondary sources in the history of medicine, such as William Hunter’s Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus (1774),Jenner’s Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccine…cowpox (1800), and a 1632 edition of Vesalius’ Epitome.
No. books:
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Last update info: 09/2025
Address: Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum, 432 W. Walnut St., Allentown, PA 18102
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (610) 435 1074 (ext. 13)
Email: j_youngken@lehighvalleyheritagemuseum.org
Web site: lehighvalleyheritagemuseum.org
Contact person: Jill Youngken, Director of Library/Archives
Financed by:
Target group: Researchers of local history, genealogy
Access library: Open to public Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Check website for Saturday Library schedule. Closed Sundays & Mondays and major holidays.
Access fees: Society members free, non-members 8 USD fee
Borrowing: No
Access database: Indirectly via librarian
Profile: Historical society with 7 historic sites plus research library of local history, genealogy, several special collections including homoeopathy.
First homoeopathic medical school was located in Allentown. Allentown State Hospital, earlier the State Homeopathic Hospital of Pennsylvania, gave most of our homoeopathic books, which we have for historic purposes.
Mainly historical volumes, period 1800 to the present. Most are in English, but a quantity are in German.
No. books: 10,000
No. hom. books: 35
No. hom. reports:
No. vol. hom. per.: 6
Database name: PastPerfect
Database content: Archives, book titles
Database records: Unavailable
Search options: Author, title, key words
Indexing system: Commercial (SEARS with modifications)
Last update info: 11/2022
National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health
Address: 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38/38A, Bethesda, Maryland 20894
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: 1-888-FINDNLM (1-888-346-3656) / (+1)301-594-5983
Email: https://support.nlm.nih.gov
Website: https://nlm.nih.gov
Contact person: Inquiries to the email address above are routed to the appropriate staff
Financed by: NLM is an agency of the US government and is funded by federal appropriation
Target group: NLM is open to anybody wishing to use its collections onsite or remotely. Primary users include (but are not limited to) health science professionals, researchers, publishers, educators/trainers, librarians, historians, students and the general public.
Access library: For details of library access, see https://www.nlm.nih.gov/readingroom/index.html
Access fees: n/a
Borrowing: NLM is a research institution, and materials do not generally circulate to individuals. However, some materials are accessible through interlibrary loans. Contact your local library and see details at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/psd/cas/illhome.html
Access database:
Profile: NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library and maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched each year by billions of people worldwide. It also supports and conducts research, development and training in biomedical informatics and information technology. In addition, the Library coordinates the Library coordinates the more than 8,800-member National Network of Libraries of Medicine that promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the USA.
NLM also maintains a very large, diverse and comprehensive history of medicine collection. For details of its holdings and policies, see https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html/
No. books: over 28 million books, journals, audiovisuals, images and archival materials; over 50 miles of shelves. Homeopathic materials are not segregated but can be identified within each database.
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No. hom. reports:
No. vol. hom. per.:
Database name(s) and contents: NLM currently maintains about 450 electronic products and resources.
See https://eresources.nlm.nih.gov/nlm_eresources/
While there is no database specifically devoted to homeopathy, homeopathic materials can be identified as appropriate to the database purpose. Good starting points to searching the NLM collection might be:
PubMed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) comprising more than 38 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books;
MedlinePlus (https://medlineplus.gov), which presents high-quality, relevant health and wellness information that is trusted, easy to understand, and free of advertising, in both English and Spanish and some other languages, anywhere, anytime, on any device, at no cost;
and LocatorPlus (https://catalog.nlm.nih.gov/), NLM’s online public access catalogue.
All of NLM’s e-resources have search engines whose capabilities are tailored to their contents and purposes. For example, even the simplest search in LocatorPlus for “homeopathy” yields over 6,700 hits, including the archives of the (US) National Center for Homeopathy and the American Center for Homeopathy.
Database records:
Search options:
Indexing system: NLM has maintained, for many years, its MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) controlled vocabulary, which is the standard in the United States, and coordinates with other international vocabularies and thesauri. See https://www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
Last update info: 03/2025
National University of Natural Medicine – Library
Address: 49 SW Porter Street, Portland, Oregon 97201
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (503) 552 1542
Fax: +1 (503) 552 1547
Email: library@nunm.edu
Web site: library.nunm.edu
Contact person: Noelle Stello (University Librarian)
Financed by:
Target group: The library is open to anybody who wishes to use our resources on-site. Borrowing privileges are restricted to patrons from NUNM, OHSU, UWS, OCOM, Pacific University, Linfield College (Portland Campus).
Access library: The NUNM Library is located on the first floor of the Academic building.
Fall, winter, and spring terms
Monday through Friday 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Summer term
Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The library is typically closed on all major holidays. Please call the circulation desk at 503.552.1542 for more information.
Access fees:
Borrowing:
Access database: http://pahl-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?vid=NCNM
Profile:
No. books: over 17,000
No. hom. books: 2066
No. hom. reports:
No. vol. hom. per.:
Database name:
Database content:
Database records:
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Indexing system:
Last update info: 10/2022
University of California.San Francisco – Library and Center for Knowledge Management
Address: 530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (415) 476 8112
Email: https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/ask-an-archivist/
Web site: www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/homeopathy / https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/homeopathy
Contact person: Polina Ilieva, Head of Archives & Special Collections, polina.ilieva@ucsf.edu
Financed by: University of California
Target group: UCSF graduate students, faculty, staff; history of science research community. Open to anybody wishing to access the collections onsite or remotely.
Access library: Special collections by appointment only
Access fees: Fees may apply for special services
Borrowing: No borrowing of historical material
Access database: Through the internet
Profile: Contains significant homeopathic journals; library of James Ward, noted SF homeopath physician; archival collection California Homeopathic Institutions 1884-1984; 5th edition of Samuel Hahnemann’s Organon with additions in his own hand.
No. books:2,329,595
No. hom. books: 2,404
No. hom. reports: 900 homeopathic pamphlets (reprints, speeches, addresses), alphabetical author list; some are not catalogued
No. vol. hom. per.: 268
Database name:Alma/Primo (ExLibris)
Database content: Online catalogue of general collection and most of special collections. Links to internet resources, California Digital Library, HathiTrust, Google Books, Internet Archive
Database records: 78,094 (subjects = homeopathic/homeopathy)
Search options: Author, title, key words, Library of Congress subject heading, call number
Indexing system: LC subject headings
Last update info: 09/2022
University of Michigan Libraries: Taubman Health Sciences Library
Address: 1135 E. Catherine St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (Taubman Health Sciences Library); 913 S. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library)
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: (734) 764-1210 (Taubman Health Sciences Library); (734) 764-0400 (Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library)
Fax: (734) 647-9557 (Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library)
Email: THLibrary@umich.edu
Web site: www.lib.umich.edu/taubman-health-sciences-library
Contact person: Information Services
Financed by: State of Michigan and private donors through the years
Target group: All interested patrons
Access library: By online request form
Access fees: Free to on-campus affiliated patrons; Interlibrary Loan charges vary; a portion of the collection is digitized and freely available
Borrowing: Available through Interlibrary Loan
Access database: Catalogue: www.lib.umich.edu/library-catalogs
Profile: The homeopathy collection at the Taubman Medical Library of the University of Michigan originated in the holdings of the Homeopathic Medical College, first established as part of the University in Ann Arbor in 1875 and conducted concurrently with the allopathic Medical School until 1922. The collection itself contains homeopathic books and journals from the mid-1800s to present day, mostly in English but also some in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian. Of particular interest is the important Bradford Homeopathy Collection of 1,027 pamphlets detailing 75 years of the history and development of homeopathic medicine. Together with the holdings of the former Homeopathic Library, these pamphlets constitute one of the world’s most complete collections on the subject. See Homeopathy Collection Guide
No. books: Dispersed through collection (see Guide)
No. hom. books: Collection widely-dispersed throughout library (see explanation in Guide)
No. hom. reports: Collection of over 1,000 pamphlets, plus unknown number of other reports
No. vol. hom. per.:
Database name: Homeopathy Collection
Database content: www.quod.lib.umich.edu/h/homeop/
Database records:
Search options: Online searching available; limited browsing depending on library or storage location of items
Indexing system: Dewey Decimal System
Last update info: 04/2025
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Key to the IGHDR
Each page represents one library or documentation centre. The institutions are listed alphabetically according to country and within each country alphabetically by the name of the institution (or by surname in case of personal names).
Institution
Name of institution or person in the case of a private library.
Address
Address of institution.
Country
Name of country.
Phone
Telephone number, preceded by country code.
Fax
Telefax number, preceded by country code.
Email
Electronic mail address.
Web site
Web site address.
Contact person
Name of the contact person of the library/documentation centre. If different from above, the telephone number is given as well.
Financed by
Name of institution, company or private person financing the library/documentation centre.
Target group
Principal users of the library/documentation centre.
Access library
Access to library/documentation centre, e.g. free for everybody, limited to…, by appointment with librarian…
Access fees
Access fees that are applicable within the library/documentation centre.
Borrowing
Borrowing of documents possible, yes or no.
Access data
Access to the data system (library program), e.g. indirectly via librarian, directly via Internet.
Profile
General profile, i.e. rough description of the documents in the library/documentation centre.
No. books
Number of all books in the library/documentation centre.
No. hom. books
Number of books concerning homoeopathy in the library/documentation centre.
No. hom. reports
Number of reports and theses concerning homoeopathy in the library/documentation centre.
No. vol. hom. per.
Number of volumes of homoeopathic periodicals. One volume is one title for one year.
Database name
Name of the database or library program the library/documentation centre currently uses.
Database contents
Brief description of the content of the database.
Database records
Number of records in the homoeopathy database.
Search options
Search options in the database, e.g. author, title, key words…
Indexing system
Indexing system used in the library/documentation centre, e.g. self-built thesaurus, commercial available thesaurus, controlled key word list…
Last update info
The last update of the information from that particular library/collection, i.e. date of the last time new/corrected data were passed on to the editor of this Guide.