History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Promotional Toolkit
This page is designed to assist you in reaching out to your user community—whether they are undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, or staff. We understand that there are many resources competing for your users' attention, including general Web searches that may lead to less authoritative material. The information below is intended to help you in guiding your users to this trusted, scholarly database to serve their learning, research, and teaching needs.
Your feedback and ideas are always welcomed. Please let us know what additional information you may need.
Descriptions for your Web page
MARC records for this database
Promoting to faculty & students
Teaching guides & curriculum ideas
Articles & news
Sample records & searches
Documentation & help
Graphics
Descriptions for your Web page
Information to assist you in citing this electronic resource on your Web site and including it in lists of what you offer.
Database description
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine is the definitive international bibliography on the development and influence of science, from prehistory to the present. It integrates four premier tools for historians: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and citations from the Wellcome Library for theHistory and Understanding of Medicine (incorporating the former Wellcome Bibliography for the History of Medicine). It is created under the auspices of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, and distributed by RLG, a not-for-profit organization of libraries, archives, and museums.
Type of database
Article database
Abstracts & indexes
OpenURL-compatible, to link to full text or other resources
Alphabetical listing options
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
HSTM
Subject areas
Broad / Narrower / RelatedHistory / Agricultural Science / Economics
History of Science / Anthropology / Political Science
History of Medicine / Archaeology
History of Technology / Astrology
Medicine / Astronomy
Science / Biology
Social Science / Biotechnology
Technology / Chemistry
Computer Science
Electronics
Engineering
Environmental Science
Geography
Historiography
Mathematics
Medical Science
Military Technology
Natural History
Neurosciences
Paleontology
Pharmacy
Physics
Psychiatry
Psychology
Public Health
MARC records for this database
[Coming: Catalog record for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.]
Promoting to faculty & students
Targeted descriptions of this electronic resource and reasons for using it.
For history of science, technology, and medicine faculty
Created under the auspices of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science, the History of Science Technology, and Medicine database integrates four premier tools for historians: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and citations from the Wellcome Library for theHistory and Understanding of Medicine (incorporating the former Wellcome Bibliography for the History of Medicine). Citations reflect the contents of nearly 9,500 journals in addition to conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations critical to the work of professional science historians and academic scholars.
The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine is designed to support the needs of you and your students by providing a fundamental reference aggregating core bibliographies in the field.
For faculty in related fields
—such as history, medicine, economics, and political science
The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database is the definitive bibliography for these disciplines and allied historical fields meeting the needs of wide-ranging scholarly investigations. Faculty, researchers, and students will find pertinent information on the cultural, economic, and political influence of scientific innovation on society.
Through the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine you and your students gain access to the aggregated content of four premier bibliographies: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and citations from the Wellcome Library for theHistory and Understanding of Medicine (incorporating the former Wellcome Bibliography for the History of Medicine). Citations reflect the contents of nearly 9,500 journals in addition to conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations critical to the work of professional science historians and academic scholars.
top
Teaching guides & curriculum ideas
Include an overview of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in your library's bibliographic instruction classes. And please note that you can increase the number of simultaneous users on your subscription for training purposes. If you're planning to use this database in an instructional course, just let us know. We'll make sure you have the right access level for class use during the period you specify.
See the following materials created by other institutions:
- Harvard University Finding Periodical Articles on the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine [link to:
- Harvard University Getting Started in History of Science Research [link to:
- Stanford University Libraries History of Science and Technology Collections [link to:
- Princeton University History Resources [link to:
- Georgia Institute of Technology History, Technology & Society [link to:
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Eureka Quick Guide for the History of Science Technology and Medicine [link to:
top
Articles & news
For more on the scope and features of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, consult Articles & Updates (under Products & Services: Online Databases: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine).
top
Sample records & searches
View Sample Records (under Products & Services: Online Databases: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine [link to: recapture records with blue bar branding) for illustrations of this database that can inspire classroom or research uses. For samples of searching, see this illustrated searching introduction.
top
Documentation & help
Select the most useful History of Science, Technology, and Medicine user guides [link to: for your users.
top
Graphics
Use these graphics on your Web pages, promotional materials, and wherever else they can be helpful.
Full-color database flier. [add HST database flier]
[Images for promoting History of Science, Technology, and Medicine will be added here. Tell us what would be most useful to you.]
top
Sample Searches Illustrated Walk-through
Question: How do I find information about the Manhattan Project?
Type manhattan project in the Eureka® search box and click the Search button.
Since the Keyword index provides the broadest form of subject search, it is always used unless you click one of the other choices:
(View enlarged image)
As shown below, results of up to 250 records are sorted by year (most recent first) and by author and title within a year. To re-sort the initial results display, click the Author, Title, or Year button at the top of the list.
Click the Check all link above the individual citation check boxes. This automatically gives you all the citations in the next display you request. If you prefer, you may selectively check particular citations.
Click the Full display button. This will provide the most complete bibliographic display of the citations you have checked.
Scroll through the Full records display showing an array of citations pertaining to the Manhattan Project:
Question: What do you have relating to the mystical aspects of alchemy?
Type alchem? mystic? in the search box and click the Search button.
In Eureka the truncation symbol is a question mark: ? Use this if you are not sure of the spelling of a word or want to pick up variants. Here, it will retrieve any citations with the words "alchemy," "alchemist," or "alchemists," and "mystic," "mystics," "mystical," or "mysticism."
Click the Check all link on the resulting screen or selectively click the citations that appear to best match your topic; then click the Full display button.
Scroll through the resulting Full records display showing an array of citations on alchemy and mysticism.
Question: What about information on the Industrial Revolution?
Type industrial revolution in the search box and click the Search button.
Click the Check all link on the resulting screen or selectively click the citations that appear to best match your topic; then click the Full display button.
Scroll through the resulting Full records display showing an array of citations on the Industrial Revolution.
Question: How can I refine my search for a more focused result?
To look just for information on the economic aspects of the Industrial Revolution, add another term to your last search by clicking the Refine link (above and left of the Check all link). On the Refine Search screen shown below, stay with the Keyword index selection. Type economic? in the search box and click the Search button below the index menus.
Look through the resulting display of citations on economics and the Industrial Revolution.
rev. 7/20/05