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 Finding tools Source materials Archival, printed and electronic Robert Hooke, from RSL door by Eric Gill

Guiding the way Libraries Oxlip

History Faculty Library 85,000 items including History of STM Lending materials for History Undergraduates

History of STM section (Hist.) Strong 19 th Century holdings Legal Deposit material post-1883 Radcliffe Science Library

Museum of the History of Science Library History of Scientific instruments (astronomy, optics, horology, chemistry, physics, medicine, maths, cartography) 20,000 books and offprints Founded by Lewis Evans ( ) Strong antiquarian holdings Reference-only

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Library Banbury Rd Current research interests: tropical, colonial and military medicine, history of nursing 7,000 monographs, serials and theses Reference-only

Bodleian Library Dept. of Special Collections Early manuscripts & printed books Scientists’ papers Archives

Other Oxford 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 present Access via Oxlip – hosted byOxlip

5mins Hands-on practice Suggestion: 1.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 2.Go to 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 ( ) 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 Early English Books Online, (EEBO) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Making of the Modern World (MOMW) ARTstor Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum: Kollektion Wissenschaftsgeschichte (684 titles)

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

JSTOR Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ( ) Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ( ) 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 Sciences Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences ( ) Via Gallica

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, Royal Society, Obituary notices (via JSTOR) Proceedings ( ) Obituary Notices of Fellow of the Royal Society ( ) Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ( ) Sackler Archive Resource: Fellows, 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 Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Pitt-Rivers) Oxford Botanic Garden, Herbaria and Library Oxford Digital Library (e.g. Internet Library of Early Journals) Oxford Archives/Oxford College Archives

Sources for archives & manuscripts National Archives (incl. ARCHON, NRA) Archives Hub Access2Archives Archives in London and M25 area (AIM25) Wellcome Library Archives & Manuscripts British Library NAHSTE NCUACS ECHO OAIster (meta search engine)

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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?

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