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WISER : Resources for History of Science & Medicine

WISER : Resources for History of Science & Medicine. Juliet Ralph, Life Sciences Librarian Isabel Holowaty, History Librarian Shauna Barrett, Wellcome Librarian. William Harvey, from RSL door by Eric Gill. Aim: To provide an overview of History of Science at Oxford Collections

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WISER : Resources for History of Science & Medicine

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  1. WISER: Resources for History of Science & Medicine Juliet Ralph, Life Sciences Librarian Isabel Holowaty, History Librarian Shauna Barrett, Wellcome Librarian William Harvey, from RSL door by Eric Gill

  2. Aim: To provide an overview of History of Science at Oxford • Collections • Finding tools • Source materials • Archival, printed and electronic Robert Hooke, from RSL door by Eric Gill

  3. Guiding the way • Libraries • www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/libraries/subjects/historyofscience • Oxlip • http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources

  4. History Faculty Library • www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/history • 85,000 items including History of STM • Lending materials for History Undergraduates

  5. History of STM section (Hist.) Strong 19th Century holdings Legal Deposit material post-1883 Radcliffe Science Library www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl

  6. Museum of the History of Science Library • www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/library • History of Scientific instruments (astronomy, optics, horology, chemistry, physics, medicine, maths, cartography) • 20,000 books and offprints • Founded by Lewis Evans (1853-1930) • Strong antiquarian holdings • Reference-only

  7. Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Library • www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/library • 45-47 Banbury Rd • Current research interests: tropical, colonial and military medicine, history of nursing • 7,000 monographs, serials and theses • Reference-only

  8. Bodleian Library • www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley • Dept. of Special Collectionswww.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/specialcollections/western_rarebooks/scientific • Early manuscripts & printed books • Scientists’ papers • Archives

  9. Other Oxford libraries • http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/libraries/libraries • Oxford University Museum of Natural History • Philosophy • Plant Sciences • Rhodes House / Indian Institute • Zoology • Colleges (Corpus Christi, Magdalen, Merton)

  10. Oxford Catalogues • OLIS • Access to the Oxford Libraries Union Catalogue • Online Catalogues of Western Manuscripts • Gateway to electronic catalogues of the Bodleian's western-language based manuscript collections. • Oxford Digital Library • Digitised collections and information about ODL services and developments. • Selected Collections.John Johnson Collection • A major collection of printed ephemera • Early Manuscripts at Oxford University • Digital facsimiles of early manuscripts

  11. Bibliographic Databases • History of Science, Technology & Medicine (HSTM) • Integrates four international bibliographies • 9,500 sources • Reflects the influences of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present • Includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other materials • Coverage: publications 1975 - present • Access via Oxlip – hosted by

  12. 5mins Hands-on practice • Suggestion: • Search HSTM for William Harvey as a Keyword or an Author • Try out the Sort and Limit functions • Explore a couple of records to see the full details and links • Go to Oxlip (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/). Click on the History of Science heading and browse.

  13. Printed sources online • Scholarly journals • Contemporary works (individuals, scientific societies) • Dictionaries

  14. History of Science journals • Isis (1913-2006) • Annals of Science (1936-) • British Journal for the History of Science (1962-) • Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (1946-)

  15. Ancient & medieval • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) • Aristoteles Latinus Database • Cetedoc: Library of Latin Texts

  16. Early modern 1500-1800 • Early English Books Online, 1475-1700 (EEBO) • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) • Making of the Modern World (MOMW) • ARTstor • Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum: • Kollektion Wissenschaftsgeschichte (684 titles) • http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/colbrowse/?DC=wissenschaftsgeschichte

  17. Modern, 1800- GoogleBooks But, online finding tools: OLIS, WorldCat, etc. Royal Society Library Wellcome Trust Library Whipple Library, Cambridge

  18. JSTOR • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665-2004) • Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of • Philadelphia (1841-2003) • Back-runs of science journals: • Science (1880-) Also via Internet Library of Early Journals (Oxford Digital Library)

  19. Other scientific societies (Germany) Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina Max Planck Institut

  20. Other scientific societies (France) • Academie des Sciences • Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (1835-1965) • Via Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/

  21. Biographical information • (Oxford) Dictionary of National Biography • American National Biography • Dictionary of Scientists • World Biographical Information System

  22. Biographical information • Munk’s Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, 1518-2005 • http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/heritage/munksroll/index.htm • Royal Society, Obituary notices (via JSTOR) • Proceedings (1830-1931) • Obituary Notices of Fellow of the Royal Society (1932-1954) Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (1955-2004) • Sackler Archive Resource: Fellows, 1660- • http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1724 Gresham College

  23. Dictionaries • Encyclopedia Diderot • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences • Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science

  24. 5mins Hands-on practice • Suggestions: • EEBO or ECCO or MOMW (search for alchemy) • JSTOR (browse journals in Science sections) • Dictionary of Scientists (search for Einstein)

  25. Archival resources online Hippocrates Praying apothecary. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson (1801) after G.M. Woodward

  26. Archival resources online • Main journals in this subject • Other collections of interest in Oxford (print & online) • Sources for archives and manuscripts • Some online resources and gateways • e.g. NLM & MedHist

  27. Main history of medicine journals • Bulletin of the History of Medicine • Canadian Bulletin of Medical History • Emerging Infectious Diseases • Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences • Medical History • Nursing History Review • Social History of Medicine

  28. Other collections of interest in OULS/Oxford • Rhodes House Library http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/rhodes/ • Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Pitt-Rivers) http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections.html • Oxford Botanic Garden, Herbaria and Library http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/herbaria_index.html • Oxford Digital Library (e.g. Internet Library of Early Journals) http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/ • Oxford Archives/Oxford College Archives • http://www.oxfordarchives.org.uk/

  29. Sources for archives & manuscripts • National Archives (incl. ARCHON, NRA) • http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ • Archives Hubhttp://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/ • Access2Archives http://www.a2a.org.uk/ • Archives in London and M25 area (AIM25) http://www.aim25.ac.uk/ • Wellcome Library Archives & Manuscripts • http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/ • British Library http://www.bl.uk/ • NAHSTE http://www.nahste.ac.uk/ • NCUACS http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/ • ECHO http://echo.gmu.edu/ • OAIster (meta search engine) http://www.oaister.org/

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