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Databases for History of Science and Technology
Introduction | History of Science | History of Technology | Philosophy of Science | General Databases
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Introduction
The Library presently subscribes to no databases whose sole focus is the history of science and technology. However, many of the Library databases contain material of interest which touch on some aspects of the history of science and technology.
History of Science
America: History and Life
Bibliographic database covering the world’s scholarly literature in history (United States and Canada). It includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.APS (American Periodical Series) Online
American journals and magazines from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. APS Online spans over 1,500 titles and 7 million pages of content.Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)
For material on the history of the life sciences.Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar)
Particularly for material on the history of chemistry.Compendex
Particularly for the history of engineering. Part of Engineering Village.Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Will eventually include digitized images of all American imprints of the 17th and 18th centuries.Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Images of the original pages in more than 96,000 works published in Great Britain before 1700. Particularly useful for the history and philosophy of science.Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published in Great Britain and the colonies during the 18th century. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.GEOBASE
History of geology, geography, and related fields.Historical Abstracts
Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature in history (excluding the United States and Canada). It includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.Historical Index to the New York Times
Index to the New York Times for the periods 1863-1905, 1913-1922.Index to Early American Periodicals
Provides access to individual articles in the microfilm sets American Periodical Series, Eighteenth Century (APS I) (Microfilm S 10), American Periodical Series, 1800-1850 (APS II) (Microfilm S 10), and American Periodical Series, 1850-1900 (APS III) (Microfilm S 10.5).Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Journals Database is a bibliography of approximately 250,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 400 medieval and Renaissance journal titles. The Books Database (under construction) is a bibliography of monographs, material published in monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.JSTOR
Back issues of core journals in many subject areas, including general science. Relevant titles are Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, Proceedings: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and Science.London Times Index
Indexes The Times (London), 1790-1905.MathSciNet
Citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles in the mathematical literature.MEDLINE
For the history of medicine.Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Series I: Multi-Title Periodical Indices includes Catalog of Scientific Papers--Mechanics, Physics, Mathematics (1800-1900) from the Royal Society, Great Britain.Periodicals Index Online
Provides indexing for important history of science journals such as Ambix, Annals of Science, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, British Journal for the History of Science, Isis, and Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.Past Masters
One of the six databases that make up Past Masters is Darwin: Works. It is an online edition of The Works of Charles Darwin, edited by Paul H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman, and published by Pickering & Chatto, 1986-1990.Project MUSE
Includes the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Configurations, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, Perspectives on Science, Social Science History, and Technology and Culture.Zentralblatt MATH
Citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles in the mathematical literature.
Jump to top of page.History of Technology
ABI/INFORM
Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 800 business and management journals. Some coverage of the history of technology, particularly as it relates to specific companies.AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
Visual resources for the history of technology, at least since the invention of photography. Try searching on lightbulb or roller coaster.America: History and Life
Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature in history (United States and Canada). It includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.APS (American Periodical Series) Online
Eventually APS Online will provide more than 1,000 periodical titles in full page images, from the American Periodical Series (APS I, APS II, and APS III), American journals and magazines from the 18th and 19th centuries. Presently, some 461 titles have been digitized. The project is scheduled for completion in 2002.CASSIS
Information on United States patents and trademarks. Consult the United States Patents and Foreign Patents sections of the Databases for Patents page for additional databases.Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Will eventually include digitized images of all American imprints of the 17th and 18th centuries.Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published in Great Britain and the colonies during the 18th century. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.Google Patent Search Beta
Search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you. Covers the entire collection of patents made available by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)—from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006.Historical Abstracts
Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature in history (excluding the United States and Canada). It includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.Historical Index to the New York Times
Index to the New York Times for the periods 1863-1905, 1913-1922.Index to Early American Periodicals
Provides access to individual articles in the microfilm sets American Periodical Series, Eighteenth Century (APS I) (Microfilm S 10), American Periodical Series, 1800-1850 (APS II) (Microfilm S 10), and American Periodical Series, 1850-1900 (APS III) (Microfilm S 10.5).Lexis Nexis Congressional
The Congressional Indexes, 1789-1972 component includes the Congressional Serial Set, U.S. House of Representatives and Senate reports and documents. Some of these concern the history of technology in the United States.London Times Index
Indexes The Times (London), 1790-1905.MarciveWeb DOCS
Index to United States government publications cataloged by the Government Printing Office. Some publications relevant to the history of technology.Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Includes Subject Matter of Patents Issued by the U.S., 1790-1873 (in Series V: Government Documents Indices).Project MUSE
Includes the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Configurations, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, Perspectives on Science, Social Science History, and Technology and Culture.
Philosophy of Science
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Images of the original pages in more than 96,000 works published in Great Britain before 1700. Particularly useful for the history and philosophy of science.Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published in Great Britain and the colonies during the 18th century. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Journals Database is a bibliography of approximately 250,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 400 medieval and Renaissance journal titles. The Books Database (under construction) is a bibliography of monographs, material published in monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.Periodicals Index Online
Provides indexing for important history of science journals such as Ambix, Annals of Science, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, British Journal for the History of Science, Isis, and Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.Philosopher's Index
Particularly for the philosophy of science.Project MUSE
Includes the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Configurations, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, Perspectives on Science, Social Science History, and Technology and Culture.
General Databases
ArchiveGrid
Nearly a million collection descriptions and online archival finding aids of archival material from more than 2,500 libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives around the world.Academic OneFile
Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering all subject areas. Most of the journals are in full text, available in HTML and PDF formats.ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
References to academic dissertations, with abstracts from 1980 to date. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF format.WorldCat
WorldCat, the OCLC union catalog, contains cataloging records to more than 30 million items held at libraries around the world. In WorldCat you can submit interlibrary loan requests for material not held by the University of Delaware Library.
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Last modified: 07/31/08
