Databases
Databases for Science and Technology Studies
Help with using databases - advice on database searching, and guides to specific databases.
Help with your search strategy - hints on how to improve your search strategy, including Boolean searching.
Journals in Science and Technology Studies
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To find a specific journal title, choose Simple Search in the
Library Catalogue. Click the Journal Title button and type
the title of the journal in the Simple Search box.
You can also use Simple Search to find journals in your subject. Click the Boolean Search button and type your subject words (e.g. science and history) in the Simple Search box. Click on Journals in the drop-down Quick Limits box.
Subject Gateways
- BUBL - History of Medicine
- BUBL - History of Science
- History Online - Science and Technology
- Intute - Science, Engineering and Technology
- LTSN - Centre for History Classics and Archaeology
- Open Directory - History of Science
Internet Links
- British Society for the History of Science
- Center for History of Physics - based at the American Institute of Physics,
- HOPOS - the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
- HOST - History of Science and Technology 1801-1914 - a collaborative project, funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme which aims to increase scholarly access to a number of significant collections of printed and archival material relating to the history of the non-medical sciences.
- H-Sci-Med-Tech
- Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology - based at the University of Toronto.
- Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) - based at the University of Edinburgh.
- Royal Institution of Great Britain
- The Royal Society - the UK Academy of Science.
- Science Studies Unit (University of Edinburgh)
- Science and Technology Policy Research Unit - based at University of Sussex.
- Sociology of Science and Technology NETwork - the European platform for sociologists of science and technology to meet, exchange ideas and strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Today in Science History
General Search Tools
- Google Guide - an interactive tutorial on making searching even easier from Nancy Blachman.
- Google Help Center - help, advice and search tips for using Google.
- Google Scholar