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Selected Resources for: History of Science and Technology

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Subject Librarian: Janet Fransen

E-Mail: fransen@umn.edu

This subject covers: the development and application of scientific theories throughout time.



Article Databases 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. Link to mobile version of resource.
This index provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present with over 2,000 journals including all key English-language historical journals.
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Historical Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. Link to mobile version of resource.
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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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles

Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. Link to mobile version of resource.
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 over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies


Catalogs

MNCAT (University of Minnesota library catalog)
Search for books, conference proceedings, journals, maps, and other items in our collection.
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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

Biography Reference Bank Authentication Required
(Please note: this resource only allows four (4) simultaneous users. If you are denied access, please try again later)
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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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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Directories

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

Companion encyclopedia of the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences
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Encyclopaedia of the history of technology
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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. Link to mobile version of resource.
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

Chicago Manual of Style Online Authentication Required
The standard work and most comprehensive of the style manuals. All chapters are written for the electronic age, with advice on how to prepare and edit manuscripts online, handle copyright and permissions issues raised by new technologies, use the latest methods of preparing mathematical copy, and cite electronic and online sources.
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Library Information


Primary Subject Location

Science and Engineering Library
Chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology and geophysics, physics, astronomy, general science, history of science and technology.
Campus: East Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: Walter Library
Telephone: Circulation: (612) 624-3366; Reference: (612) 624-0224
Main URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/walter
Reference URL: http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/staff.phtml
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WaLib/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/scieng/hours

 

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