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ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES, BIOGRAPHIES

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

• Search especially:
  • EBSCOHost - Index of popular, informational, and scholarly journals, some full text available.
  • EbscoOnline - Access the full text of all Howard University Library on line journal subscriptions, search for articles by topic or for a journal title.
  • JSTOR - Scholarly journals in history, philosophy, mathematics, and ecology, with full text of articles.
  • Project Muse

PUBLICATIONS

• Electronic Scholarly Publishing - Full text of essays and articles on the history of science, strong focus on genetics.
• Science Textbooks and Historical Science Online
• Classics in the History of Psychology - The objective of this site is to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant  scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines, including evolutionary theory, available on the World Wide Web.

INTERNET RESOURCES

General

• Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries - "This catalog is a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries with vital facts about each individual and their contributions to science." The catalog is also searchable.
• Echo Virtual Center's Directory of Sites - Incorporates the WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and Industry. A searchable index of more than 5,000 websites, many with excerpts and annotations.
• The Faces of Science: African Americans in Science - Biographical profiles of African American contributors to the history and development of science and technology.
• Galileo Project - Comprehensive site dedicated to Galileo, includes, biography, chronology, instruments, observations, theories, and contemporary scientists.
• History of Science and Ethics Internet Resources - Louisiana State University
• History of Science Links - Many disciplines are represented.
• Internet Resources for the History of Science - Maintained by the University of Delaware, this is site covers science and engineering.
• 20th Century History of Science Links
• 4000 years of Women in Science- This site lists over 125 names from our scientific and technical past, contains biographies, photographs, and references.
• Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
• Selected Simulations for Interactive Learning Links

Biology

• BioInformatics - Web site developed by Donald Forsdyke, Emeritus Professor,
  Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University.
• Open Directory--Biology History
• Evolution - Topics in Evolution
• History of Bioinformatics - This project is hosted at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. This site presents bibliographies, documents, timelines.
• Mendelweb - Mendel's papers, essays and commentary on Mendel and his discovery, glossary of terms used in Mendel's papers, bibliographies to articles on Mendel, and images.
• Nobel Articles
  Articles on Themes in the History of Medicine includes awards for physiology.
• Timeline of Evolutionary Thought - Contains links to biographical and other information on leading contributors to the theory.

Chemistry

• Classic Papers in Chemistry - The complete text of important papers in the history of chemistry.
• Nobel Articles
  Themes in the history of chemistry

Engineering & Technology

• ASME History and Heritage Center - Offers history news and identifies landmark developments  in  mechanical engineering in the US with links to other countries.
• Chemical Engineering - Evolution of chemical engineering
• Engineering History - Eric Weisstein's bibliography of books on engineering history and biographies.
• IEEE History of Computing
• History and Heritage of Civil Engineering - From the American Society for Civil Engineering, landmarks, notable engineers, image library, and resource guide.
• History of Materials Research - T his Dibner Institute's history project includes enabling techniques, driving forces, documents, and timelines.

Environment

• Academic Info Environmental History - Links to environmental history resources
• Environmental History on the Web - Environmental History Journals and Societies, Environmental Awards, Articles on the history, Educational Resources
• Environmental History Timeline - William Kovarik, Ph.D.,Associate Professor Radford University
• Environmental Movement Timeline - History of the American Environmental Movement

Mathematics

• Historical Articles from the Notices of the AMS - A selection of non-technical (or at most low-tech) articles on the history of mathematics.
• Index to the History of Mathematics - Good essays on an extensive list of topics in the history of mathematics, early mathematics--Chinese, Egyptian, Indian, and Mayan--cosmology, ring theory, calculus, set theory and more.
• Links to Web Sites on the History of Mathematics - Source: The British Society for the History of Mathematics
• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Mathematicians - Accounts of the lives and works
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Includes biographies and the works of Greek and Islamic mathematicians maintained by the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora - One of the purposes of this website is to exhibit the inaccuracy of those proclamations by exhibiting the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within the Mathematical Sciences

Physics

• Center for the History of Physics - This site is maintained by the American Institute of Physics, which seeks  to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and allied fields including astronomy, geophysics, optics, etc. An excellent source for links to Einstein, Bohr, Curie and Heisenberg sites.
• History of Physics - Long annotated list of links to biographies (a useful site, but some links do not function).
• History of Physics - From MIT these links include sites on early scientific instruments to the history of research on Dark Matter, etc.
• History of Quantum Physics
• Nobel Articles - Themes in the history of Physics
• Resources for the History of Physics & Allied Fields - Extensive list of websites from the American Institute of Physics

Museum Exhibits

• IEEE Virtual Museum - From 1700 to presents this dynamic site offers exhibits, biographies,  technologies, and successful applications showing how engineers have found new ways to use electricity.
• Museum of the History of Science - On line image collection contains instruments, portraits, and illustrations.
• NOBEL e-MUSEUM
• University of Toronto Museum of Scientific Instruments

Ethics

• The History and Ethics Behind the Manhattan Project - Miguel A. Bracchini, University of Texas at Austin, gives a brief history of the Manhattan Project and discusses the political and ethical debates about using the atomic bomb on Japan.
• Rachel Carson - Hazards of Pesticides
• Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Development - Essays include Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Case Studies, and codes of ethics.