WISER: Resources for

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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
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• 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
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• Guiding the way
• Libraries
• www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/libraries/subjects/historyofscie
  nce
• Oxlip
• http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources

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

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Radcliffe Science Library www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Bodleian Library
• www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley
• Dept. of Special Collections www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/b
  odley/library/specialcollections/western_rarebooks
  /scientific
• Early manuscripts printed books
• Scientists papers
• Archives

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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

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• 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-)

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

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• 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

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Modern, 1800- GoogleBooks But, online finding
tools OLIS, WorldCat, etc. Royal Society
Library Wellcome Trust Library Whipple Library,
Cambridge
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• 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)
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Other scientific societies (Germany) Deutsche
Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina Max Planck
Institut
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Other scientific societies (France) Academie des
Sciences Comptes rendus de l'Académie des
sciences (1835-1965) Via Gallica
http//gallica.bnf.fr/
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• Biographical information
• (Oxford) Dictionary of National Biography
• American National Biography
• Dictionary of Scientists
• World Biographical Information System

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• Biographical information
• Munks Roll of the Royal College of Physicians,
  1518-2005
• http//www.rcplondon.ac.uk/heritage/munksroll/inde
  x.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?id1724

Gresham College
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• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedia Diderot
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
• Oxford Companion to the History of Modern
  Science

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• 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)

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

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• 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

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• Other collections of interest in OULS/Oxford
• Rhodes House Library http//www.bodley.ox.a
  c.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/

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

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• ScreenshotOAIster

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MedHist
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• 5mins Hands-on practice
• Suggestions
• Search National Register of Archives (NRA) for
  Francis Crick.
• Search MedHist for plague.
• Search Wellcome Library for malaria.
• Any questions?

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