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How to Find Articles and Other Materials of All Ages History of Science and Technology
This is a list of article indexes, article databases, electronic journals, and other materials that are noteworthy because they cover a wide range of dates. This list includes also includes patents.
This chart is only a selected list! For a complete list of databases and other resources by subject, please see the library's Databases page.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine -- Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, medicine, and allied historical fields. The database integrates four bibliographies: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture),Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ) -- Indexes a large number of European periodicals and covers basic research from all fields, particularly humanities and social sciences.
1985+
AI 9 .B5 Gen Ref
JSTOR -- This is a multidisciplinary collection of complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues. New titles and disciplines are added regularly.
Poole's index to periodical literature -- An index to articles in American and English periodicals of all subjects.
1802 - 1906
AI 3 .P7 1938 Gen Ref
Reader's Guide Retrospective -- Popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, reflecting the history of 20th century America. Indexes a large number of European periodicals and covers basic research from all fields, particularly humanities and social sciences.
NASA ADS (Astrophysics Data System) --ADS provides access to more than 2 million abstracts in astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and the arXiv.org preprints in astronomy. For the titles and dates of journals covered, go to ADS Article Service.
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) -- Collection contains NASA aerospace information, such as research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data.
Beilstein -- in SciFinder folder
(Eisenhower Library only)
Chemical Abstracts -- Sources include journals, patents, conference proceedings, dissertations, technical reports, books, and more. Includes all related indexes.
1907 - 2003
QD1 .A51 Sci Ref
Royal Society of Chemistry -- A full-text archive.
SciFinder Scholar (Chem Abs online) -- Searches can be done by by topic, author, registry or abstract numbers, patent number, chemical name, chemical structure, or molecular formula. Also searches MEDLINE.
1907+, and selected pre-1907 works
SciFinder Scholar -- in SciFinder folder
(Desktop of MSEL flat screen workstations)
Engineering and Technology
Atomic Energy Collection(Oregon State University) -- This collection contains more than 3,000 items on the development of nuclear technologies in the 20th century. The collection includes the first published account of the discovery of radioactivity in 1896 by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Henri Becquerel; materials concerning the congressional hearings of J. Robert Oppenheimer; declassified government reports; and cultural aspects of the atomic age through fictional works, poetry, drama, and music.
Use the patent literature to trace the development of technology.
A patent is granted to an inventor by the U.S. Government "'to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the [U.S.] or importing the invention into [U.S.]'" for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted.
MEDLINE -- The bibliographic portion of PubMed, called MEDLINE, includes articles about the history of medicine. To limit your search to just those, choose LIMITS, and under SUBSETS, choose "History of Medicine."
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine -- The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database covers 1975 to the present and is updated quarterly. It describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields
Royal Society of London, Catalogue of Scientific Papers -- Includes mechanics pure mathematics, physics, and other topics.
1800 - 1900
Z7403 .R88 Sci Ref
Science in the Nineteenth Century Periodical Index -- This index provides a synopsis of the material relating to science, technology, and medicine appearing in 16 general periodicals published in Britain between 1800 and 1900. Entries describe ~7,500 articles and reference 5,500+ individuals, 2,000 publications, and 1,000 institutions.
