Science and Culture


  • SHOT: Society for the History of Technology
    (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Science as Culture: Interesting full-text articles and position papers concerning human dimensions of science.
  • JunkScience.com: All-purpose site dealing with how science is used for various purposes. Covering news items, articles and various debunking stories.
  • Great Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century: Wonderful site for timelines and brief entries conerning major watershed achievements for technology.

Scholarly Societies

Government Links

JSTOR Resources (JSTOR access is provided by Purdue University)

History of Science

  • Academic Search Premier: General information from journals, magazines, and newspapers in all subject areas.
  • Directory of Published Proceedings: DoPP provides information on locating and procuring published proceedings from conferences in many fields, including sciences, medicine, ecology, and humanities.
  • Eighteenth Century Collections online:Full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 English-language and foreign-language books published in Britain and its colonies (including N. America) during the 18th century, 1701-1800.
  • Index Islamicus:Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.
  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance:Iter Bibliography indexes books and journals pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400 - 1700 A.D.) Over 1,346 journals are indexed.

 

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