The Mandragora Foundation library will include thousands of physical books, a digital archive for full-text searches, curated unpublished knowledge from oral traditions, and new publications to support ongoing research and education. Contents will be accessible starting in Spring 2025.
PHYSICAL LIBRARY
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
KNOWLEDGE PRESERVATION
NEW PUBLICATIONS
PHYSICAL LIBRARY
Mandragora will host a new documentation center to preserve and promote knowledge around plants with medicinal and psychoactive properties: thousands of books, magazines and other publications acquired from private libraries, donations and market purchases to build a reference space for research and education, with a special focus on European and Mediterranean traditions. We aim to offer an Online Public Access Catalog in Spring of 2025.
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Thanks to an exhaustive digitization program, our library will also be available as a digital repository. Through intranet access terminals, visitors will be able not only to browse and display catalogue titles, but to perform full text queries thanks to a powerful open source search engine.
KNOWLEDGE PRESERVATION
We will invest resources to register and curate extant, unpublished knowledge, particularly oral tradition and lore surviving in our territory. Waiting to be documented, there’s a treasure trove of information that can nourish existing research, build connections to other traditions and enrich our cultural heritage.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Beyond articles and useful reference materials made available on our website, in 2025 we will start releasing a quarterly electronic bulletin and a periodical printed magazine. Additionally, we plan to support new publications about topics related to the history, research, applications and cultivation of plants with social and therapeutic uses in Europe and the Mediterranean.
