Library Guides: History of Science, Technology, & Medicine: Articles

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Specialized Article Databases

Agricultural & Environmental Science Database This link opens in a new window
Find citations for journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and government publications in the agricultural and environmental sciences. [1960 - present].
AES incorporates the formerly titled "Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management" database - which includes Environmental Impact Statements - plus the databases AGRICOLA (1970-current) and TOXLINE (1999-current).
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 2,000 journals, as well as historical book reviews and dissertations, published worldwide about all aspects of world history.
Excludes US and Canada. Covers from 1450 to the present.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine This link opens in a new window
Index of interdisciplinary global publications covering research in the history of science, medicine and technology. (HistSciTechMed) [1976 - present]
Indexes books, journals, proceedings, and dissertations worldwide about research in the history of science, medicine, technology, and related fields. Subjects covered include agriculture, biology, construction, chemistry, energy, engineering, geology, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, music, philosophy, physics, social sciences, town planning, transport engineering, and zoology.
IndexCat This link opens in a new window
Access to the digitized version of the printed Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. Contains materials from the 15th Century through 1950, primarily journal articles, books, dissertations, pamphlets, and reports. Also includes access to eTK for medieval Latin texts and eVK2 for medieval English texts, along with links to other selected NLM resources.
Digitized version of the Index-Catalogue, the multi-part printed bibliography or list of items in the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army. Contains over 4.5 million online references to over 3.7 million bibliographic items including 2.5 million items journal articles, 250,000 monographs (books, pamphlets, and reports), and approximately 300,000 dissertations. Covers up through 1961 imprints.
IsisCB Explore This link opens in a new window
IsisCB Explore is a research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science.
It currently contains over 200,000 citations from the years 1974-2014 and will be annually updated.
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Major subjects covered include: aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, political and social philosophy, and the philosophy of disciplines such as anthropology, education, history and science. (Philosophers Index) [1940 - present]
Includes references to journal articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews published in some 550 journals.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Search biomedical literature citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. [1950 - present]
Access to citations from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, other journals in the field of medicine and life sciences, and links to NCBI's integrated molecular biology databases including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system.
Note: The link above goes to a specially configured version of PubMed for UC Berkeley users that will display the Get It button for full text access. To use the free public version, please click here.
SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 1200 open access scholarly online journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities to meet the communication needs of researchers in the Global South, particularly those in Latin America and the Caribbean. [dates vary]
Journals from Portugal, Spain, and South Africa are also included. The SciELO project is an initiative of the Foundation for Support to Research of the State of São Paulo, Brazil (FAPESP) and the Latin American and Caribbean Center for Information on Health Sciences (BIREME).
Scientific American Archive This link opens in a new window
Full-text digitized issues of Scientific America back to its first four-page issue published in 1845. The archive also includes the Scientific American Supplement and the Builders Archive Collection. [1845-present]
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Indexes leading journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. Allows cited reference searching. (ISI Web of Knowledge) [1900 - present]
Provides links to footnoted citations as well as sources that have subsequently cited an article. Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (from 1975), Science Citation Index (from 1900), and Social Sciences Citation Index (from 1900).

Specialized Scholarly Journals

Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Call Number: R131.A1 J6
Published by the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine, this journal covers social, cultural, and scientific aspects of the history of medicine.
Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society
Call Number: Q1 .I7
Isis is the journal of the History of Science Society. Since its inception in 1912, the journal has featured scholarly articles, research notes and commentary on the history of science, medicine, and technology, and their cultural influences. Review essays and book reviews on new publications in the field are also included.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Call Number: R131.A1 J65
The journal's coverage is broad, publishing on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, received and interpreted their efforts.
Medical History
Call Number: R131.A1 M42
This British journal covers the history of health sciences and medicine.
Social History of Medicine
Call Number: R131.A1 S58
Social History of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. It publishes work on the social history of medicine from a variety of disciplines.

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