Selected Resources for: History of Science and Technology


Subject Librarian: Janet Fransen
E-Mail: frans005@umn.edu
Subject Description:This subject covers: the development and application of scientific theories throughout time.


Abstracts and Indexes

Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
America: History and Life Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This index provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This extensive database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, it also includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, books, dissertations and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Includes book reviews.
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Historical Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers the world's scholarship in history from 1450 to the present.
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Indexes articles, books, proceedings, reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology.
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Catalogs & Indexes to Government Publications
Government Periodicals Index
Use this CD-ROM to find information on public policy, government programs, technical and scientific activity, American history.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies

Catalogs
MNCAT Classic
Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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General Reference Sources

Biographical Sources

Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists
A two-volume set published by the Institute of Physics. Profiles the lives & achievements of 472 representative figures in the history of science, from the ancient Greeks to today's working scientists.
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Biography Reference Bank Authentication Required
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Biography Reference Bank combines the complete content of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated with the complete and enhanced content of Biography Index Plus. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects. Biography Index Plus is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books.
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Catalog of the Scientific Community: 16th and 17th Centuries
A "collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries with vital facts about each individual and their contributions to science."
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Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Authentication Required
Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented. 2008
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Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Provides authoritative, in-depth biographical articles on deceased scientists from classical antiquity to modern times. Each article includes bibliographies of works by and about the scientist who is the subject of the article. For biographical information on living scientists, check American Men and Women of Science or other sources. Published from 1970-78, with 1990 supplement.
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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Provides over 1000 biographies of mathematicians, 200 of which are quite detailed.
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Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901 - Present
A comprehensive list of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Provides biographical information and text from the commendation for the award. Many entries link to biographical sketches, photos, bibliographic citations, and text of speeches.
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Nobel Prizes in Chemistry
Lists the winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and the research that merited the award. A few entries link to more extensive biographical information.
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Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists
A four-volume set, with bibliographic references.
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Dictionaries

Directories
Guide to the History of Science
A guide and directory to historians of science, and the periodical literature of the field (note: provides descritpive information about journals, but does not index their contents). Published every three years.
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Encyclopedias

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Authentication Required
Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848
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General Reference Works
Introduction to the History of Science

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Handbooks and Manuals
History of modern science

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History of Technology, 1954-84, ed

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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions

Electronic Journal Collections
Gallica
A project by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France to digitize documents from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The journals are mostly older classic journals from the 1700's through the first quarter of the 20th century. Both French and premier foreign journals are included. Notable titles include Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Sances de l'Acadamie des Sciences, Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Journal fur Praktische Chemie, Annalen der Physik, and more. When looking for titles in this full-text resource, check carefully for years of coverage. Also, some titles contain spelling errors which can make them difficult to find.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software
RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
Bibliographic Formats and Descriptions
Provides citation format samples from major style guides: the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers; Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA); compiled by the University of Houston Libraries.
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Library Information

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