WISER: Resources for History of Science & Medicine

Juliet Ralph, Life Sciences LibrarianIsabel 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• Finding tools• Source materials• Archival, printed and electronic

Robert Hooke, from RSL door by Eric Gill

Guiding the way

• Libraries

www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/libraries/subjects/historyofscience

• Oxlip

http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources

History Faculty Librarywww.ouls.ox.ac.uk/history

• 85,000 items including History of STM

• Lending materials for History Undergraduates

• History of STM section (Hist.)

• Strong 19th Century holdings

• Legal Deposit material post-1883

Radcliffe Science Librarywww.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl

Museum of the History of Science Librarywww.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

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Librarywww.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

Bodleian Librarywww.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley

• Dept. of Special Collections www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/specialcollections/western_rarebooks/scientific

• Early manuscripts & printed books• Scientists’ papers• Archives

Other Oxford librarieshttp://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)

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

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

5mins Hands-on practice

Suggestion:

1. Search HSTM for William Harvey as a Keyword or an Author

Try out the Sort and Limit functionsExplore a couple of records to see the full

details and links2. Go to Oxlip (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/). Click on the

History of Science heading and browse.

Printed sources online

• Scholarly journals• Contemporary works (individuals, scientific societies)• Dictionaries

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-)

Ancient & medieval

• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)

• Aristoteles Latinus Database

• Cetedoc: Library of Latin Texts

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

Modern, 1800-

GoogleBooks

But, online finding tools:

OLIS, WorldCat, etc.

Royal Society Library

Wellcome Trust Library

Whipple Library, Cambridge

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)

Other scientific societies (Germany)

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

Max Planck Institut

Other scientific societies (France)

Academie des SciencesComptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (1835-1965)

Via Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Biographical information

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

Biographical information

• Munk’s Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, 1518-2005http://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

Dictionaries

• Encyclopedia Diderot

• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

• Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science

5mins Hands-on practice

Suggestions:

1. EEBO or ECCO or MOMW (search for alchemy)2. JSTOR (browse journals in Science sections)3. Dictionary of Scientists (search for Einstein)

Archival resources online

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

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

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

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/

Sources for archives & manuscripts• National Archives (incl. ARCHON, NRA)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

• Archives Hub http://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/

Screenshot:OAIster

MedHist:

5mins Hands-on practice

Suggestions:

1. Search National Register of Archives (NRA) for

Francis Crick.

2. Search MedHist for plague.

3. Search Wellcome Library for malaria.

Any questions?

Thank you