• Reference Sources (Print & Electronic)
  
   
• Indexes (Print & Electronic)
  
   
• Journals (Print & Electronic)
  
   
• Internet Sources (Historical Societies, Email Discussion List)
  
   
• Online Catalogs (Books, etc)
   

• Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
  
   
• Off-campus access to Indexes and Full Text databases
  
   
• Citation Searching

!!!  - three exclamation marks next to a source means a core history of science source

• General

Access Science Biographies --  McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
Biographies in AccessScience are published under license from third-party sources.  When citing such a biography, please add the source name and copyright notice, which can be found at the end of the article (for example; "from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, © Helicon Publishing Ltd. 1999, All Rights Reserved").

Encyclopedia of World Biography
CALL NUMBER: [REF] CT103 .E56 1998 -- v. 1-17

Britannica Online
The Encyclopaedia Britannica full text with external hyperlinks to the Internet.   

Current Biography
CALL NUMBER: (REF) CT100.C8

• History of Science

!!! Dictionary of Scientific Biography
SUBJECTS: Scientists--Biography--Dictionaries.
CALL NUMBER REF Q141 .D5 -- v.1-17 

!!!Science and Its Times
CALL NUMBER: REF Q175.46 S35

The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists
CALL NUMBER: REF Q141 .B528 1994

Biographical Dictionary of Psychology
CALL NUMBER REF BF109 .a1 B56 1997

Dictionary of Scientists
CALL NUMBER: REF Q 141 .C128

Notable twentieth-century scientists
CALL NUMBER: REF Q141 .N73 1995 -- v.1-4

Notable scientists : from 1900 to the present
Call Number: REF Q141 .N728 2001

Encyclopedia of Human Behavior
CALL NUMBER REF BF31 .E5 1994

Encyclopedia of Psychology
CALL NUMBER REF BF31 .e52 2000

• Noble Prize Winners

Nobel Prize women in science : their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries
CALL NUMBER: Q141 .M358 1998 & Q141 .M358 1996

Nobel prize winners : an H.W. Wilson biographical dictionary
CALL NUMBER: [REF] AS911.N9 N59 1987

Pioneers of science : Nobel Prize winners in physics
CALL NUMBER: QC15 .W4 1988

Nobel Prize
http://www.nobel.se/index.html 
The Official Web Site of The Nobel Foundation 

• Chronologies

The Timetables of Science : A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science
CALL NUMBER: [REF] Q125 .H557 1991

Wilson Chronology of Science & Technology
CALL NUMBER: [REF] Q125 .O26 1997

Asimov's chronology of science and discovery
CALL NUMBER: [REF] Q125 .A765 1989

The Wilson chronology of women's achievements : a record of women's achievements from ancient times to the present
CALL NUMBER: [REF] HQ1121 .F65 1998

The Timetables of History : a Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
CALL NUMBER: [REF] D11 .G78

All Databases below will link to library holdings of over 35,000 full-text journal articles

• General

Academic Search Premier
Excellent source for full text primary scientific journals.  

Expanded Academic ASAP 
A lesser version of Academic Search Premier, but worth searching if other sources are not working.  Full-text coverage for 1900 titles. 

New York Times Online (1851-2001)
Full-image articles for the New York Times from 1851-2001.  For full-text coverage (no images) of the New York Times after 2001, use LexisNexis Academic.

LexisNexis Academic
Full text news, business, legal and medical information. Good also for locating information on Biology related businesses and trends.   Current Biographical Information.

Google Scholar - still in Beta, but an adequate free citation index and search of scientific literature.  It will overlap some of the search results you find in your Library database searches.
 

• History of Science / Science / Biographical Sources

America: History and Life
History and related fields.

Historical Abstracts
History and related fields.

JSTOR
Full text archive of numerous scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years.  A good selection of history journals are available here. 

MEDLINE  EBSCOhost
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.   History of Medicine is a subset limiter when Advance Searching. 

PubMed
PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

ProQuest Biology Journals
Provides access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes over 285 titles, with more than 250 available in full text.  
Journal Title List

BasicBIOSIS
Records from 375 core life science journals most commonly found in college and university libraries.  1994 - present.
*-you may ILL documents  that SMC does not own electronically from this database

Project Muse
Approx. 200  full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.  Some good history of medicine and science journals included. 

PsycINFO
PsycINFO is an abstract (not full-text) database of psychological literature from 1887–present. 

AGRICOLA
Produced by the National Agricultural Library, this database indexes books, electronic media, and over 900 journal publications back to 1970. 

American Chemical Society Web Edition
Online access to over 34 publications from the American Chemical Society. Journals are searchable. New articles are posted online with 5-7 days of approval.  Coverage goes as far back as 1909 for some titles

Chemical Abstracts -- STN Easy After Dark
The premiere index to the chemical literature dating back to 1907.  Access is limited to weekends and after 5pm weekdays.  See STN Hours of Operation for complete information.

ISIS - Cumulative Index 1953-1982
Location Bound Periodicals (Shelved Alphabetically)

ISIS - Cumulative Bibliography 1986-1995 [Print]
Location REF Q125 .I2 V. 1-4
Cumulates the annual bibliographies published in Isis.

SciSearch     (Available through Dialog.   Contact a librarian for a mediated search)
SciSearch is a Cited Reference Science Database.  It is an international, multidisciplinary index to the literature of science, chemistry, technology, biomedicine, and related disciplines.  CLICK for EXAMPLE SCIENCE CITATION SEARCH 

Google Scholar - still in Beta, but an adequate free citation index and search of scientific literature. 

Science Direct

!!!Isis - Electronic Access
NOTES: Last issue of the year is an annual bibliography with title:  Critical bibliography of the history and
philosophy of science and of the history of civilization
Location: SMC-PERIODICALS
1. CALL NUMBER: BOUND PERIODICALS .I81 -- Bound -- 03/01/1958 - 12/31/1998
2. CALL NUMBER: CURRENT PERIODICALS -- v 90:n 1 (03/1999) - v 93n 3 (2003)
 

!!!Journal of the History of Biology - Electronic Access
Location: SMC-PERIODICALS
1. CALL NUMBER: MAIN FLOOR MICROFORMS -- Microfiche -- 01/01/1987 -
12/01/1996
2. CALL NUMBER: BOUND PERIODICAL .J86THB -- Bound --1968 - 2002
3. CALL NUMBER: CURRENT PERIODICALS -- 2003 to current

The Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Electronic Access
The Bulletin is the official publication of the American association for the History of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Electronic Access

History of Science - Electronic Access
Location: SMC-STACKS
Library Has Q125 .H63 v.1 - v.13

Journal of the History of Ideas - Electronic Access
An interdisciplinary publication, JHI covers several fields of historical study including the history of philosophy, literature, the natural and social sciences, religion, the arts, and culture in general.

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - Electronic Access
Electronic Access via Project Muse - 2000 thru current

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences - Electronic Access
New York Times - Science Desk

Osiris - Electronic Access

Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - Electronic Access

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science - Electronic Access

Studies in the History of Biology
Location: UVM Bailey/Howe Stacks
Call # - QH305 .S74 vol. 1-7

ECHO - History of Science, Technology & Medicine
http://echo.gmu.edu/center/

History of Science Society
http://www.hssonline.org/
Publishes the journal ISIS

H-Sci-Med-Tech
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~smt/
A member of the H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-Line initiative. H-Sci-Med-Tech is intended for the growing number of scholars who study science, medicine and technology across a wide variety of periods and regions of the world. Our editors serve the H-Sci-Med-Tech community. More information about the list and its activities is available in our welcome letter.

History of Medicine - National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html

Images From the History of Medicine
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/gw_44_3/chameleon?skin=nlm&lng=en

A Selection of History of Science Web and other Internet Sources
http://www.imss.fi.it/~tsettle/index.html

Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence ITALY
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/index.html

Nobel Prize
http://www.nobel.se/index.html 
The Official Web Site of The Nobel Foundation    

Scinet search engine
http://www.scinet.cc/ 

Saint Michael's College Online Catalog
Holdings of the SMC Durick Library.  NOTE: Catalog times out after 10"  Re-enter to reactivate search session.

University of Vermont's Online Catalog

WorldCat 
Through OCLC FirstSearch. The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 42 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge, and holdings information from the world's libraries.
*-you may ILL documents  that SMC does not own electronically from this database

• Students may request materials (journal articles, books) not available in the SMC library through ILL.  It is important that ILL is done early in your research project as it may take from 10 to 14 days for the materials to be delivered to the SMC Library.

• Note: Though you may not take books out of the UVM Library, you may photocopy journal articles there.  You may not use any of UVM's electronic sources or indexes, so do the major portion of your research at SMC, then go over to UVM with your sources in hand. 

You may start the ILL process by either:

1. Most of the SMC Library databases will link to a form to request materials that are not available full text or in print

2. ONLINE Form is available to submit electronically

Off-Campus Access (VPN or Password)

Password Access
You may access many LIS Databases from off-campus using a username and password provided by LIS.  CLICK HERE and login with your username and password to access database passwords.

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VPN (Virtual Private Network) Access
The campus VPN provides an alternative to password access for accessing licensed resources provided by LIS. To use the VPN, current SMC students, faculty, and staff will need to install the VPN software on their computer, then login into the VPN whenever access to a database or electronic journal is needed.  An active Mikenet account is required for logging into the VPN. The VPN should work with a wide variety of Internet service providers (ISP) and browsers.

Go to VPN (Virtual Private Network) and follow instructions to install the client.

The SMC Library subscribes to the following Indexes that are capable of searching  author and title citations.  Consider a mediated search for Science and Social Science Citation Indexes through Dialog.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Business Source Premier
PsycINFO
Google Scholar - still in Beta, but an adequate free citation index

Please contact Steve Burks with suggestions or comments

Last Update - 2008-01-15