IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 SA/MJA
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Medical Journalists' Association
Date(s): 1966-1992
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 boxes
Name of creator(s): Medical Journalists' Association
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Medical Journalists' Association (MJA) was launched by a group of medical journalists in 1967 "to improve the quality and practice of medical journalism and to improve relationships and understanding between medical journalists and the medical profession". Members participate in regular briefing meetings and the annual award scheme, and the MJA will act to defend points of principle, such as the availability of information from government press offices. Membership is open to journalists working in all branches of the media.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Medical Journalists' Association (MJA), 1966-1992, comprising records of the executive committee; records of annual general meetings; directory of members, affiliates and freelances; copies of the MJA newsletter; correspondence relating to the annual awards; correspondence relating to pharmaceutical advertising control proposals; correspondence relating to foreign travel; and records of the MJA weekend symposium on the relationship between journalists and doctors.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Certain restrictions apply. The majority of the papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. The executive committee minutes 1978-1982 are closed until 2020 at the request of the Association.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Duplicate material and papers not worthy of permanent retention have been returned to the MJA.
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records given by the MJA in 1994.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: June 2008