Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Noropsikiyatri Arsivi, cilt.62, sa.3, ss.286-289, 2025 (SCI-Expanded)
Introduction: İstanbul Seririyatı (1919-1952) was a pioneering and comprehensive medical journal in the field of neuropsychiatry in Türkiye. Published monthly for 33 years, the journal comprises a total of 389 issues and over 10,000 pages. This project aimed to digitize the entire archive of the journal and make it freely accessible. This article provides an overview of the journal “Istanbul Seririyati” and the website www.istanbulseririyati.com, where its archive has been recently made available online, also addressing its historical context and significance. Methods: The project, which spanned approximately six years, focused on locating all issues of the journal and compiling a complete collection. The primary goal was to obtain the most difficult-to-find Ottoman Turkish issues published between 1919 and 1929, which were collected from various individuals, institutions, libraries, antiquarian booksellers, auctions, and online marketplaces. Once acquired, they were professionally scanned and converted into PDF format. From 1929 onwards, the journal was published in Latin-script Turkish, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology was applied to facilitate text searchability whenever possible. The project was structured in four phases: identifying and gathering all journal issues, scanning and digitalizing them, creating a detailed index for each issue, and establishing an online platform for free and open access to the archive. For each issue, the medical section has been indexed with details including the author, title, and page numbers, and a structured keyword system was developed to enhance searchability within the archive. Results: The complete archive of İstanbul Seririyatı (www.istanbulseririyati. com) has now been made available online. The website offers advanced search.