Electronic resources on the history of science continue to proliferate. To add your projects to our list, please e-mail us at info@hssonline.org.

Databases, Bibliographies, and Web Sites

• The Ada Project, a collection of resources concerning women in computing sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University
• The Alfred Russel Wallace Page, including full text of 150 of the evolutionist’s writings
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Philosophical Society Digital Library, which houses approximately 160,000 items
• The Archives Hub, gateway to archive collections in the United Kingdom
• The ARTFL Encyclopédie, a collaboration between the French government and the University of Chicago
• Australian Science and Technology Heritage Center, University of Melbourne
• Bibliography of Biographies of Ocean Scientists, University of San Diego
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
• The Robert Boyle Project, University of London
• Cambridge Digital Library, University of Cambridge
• Chi Med, history and anthropology of Chinese medicine
• Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950
• Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge
• Darwin Online
• Darwin Publications
• ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online, a directory of 5000 websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry
• Encyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert Collaborative Translation Project, University of Michigan
• Ernest Rutherford, a resource on the noted New Zealand scientist, maintained by a fellow kiwi
• Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
• Guide to Historical Resources in the Atmospheric Sciences: Archives, Manuscripts, and Special Collections in the Washington, D.C. Area by James R. Fleming, Colby College
• History of Astronomy Server, Astronomische Gesellschaft, University of Bonn
• History of Physics and Astronomy, a collection of guides, online archives, recommended books, and more
• History of Physics Finding Aids, American Institute of Physics
• Humboldt Scientific Locality Index, a database project that attempts to provide an analytical framework for understanding the globalisation of Western science
• HYLE, bibliography of the history and philosophy of chemistry
• IEEE Xplore Digital Library
• International Commission on Mathematics Instruction, an organization for research and development of mathematics education at all levels
• International Bibliographic Guide to the History of Pathology, Axel W. Bauer
• Jesuits and the Sciences, 1540-1999, Loyola University of Chicago
• Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Project MUSE
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St. Andrews
• MendelWeb, an educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science
• Pauling Research Notebooks, a digitized copy of the notebooks kept by Linus Pauling, Oregon State University
• RaceSci Links, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sir Hans Sloane Correspondence, project in which to search over 1400 letters addressed to the physician, scientist, and collector

Listservs and Electronic Newsgroups (How to subscribe)

• American Society for Environmental History
• Chinese Medicine, ChiMed
• Darwin-L Archives on the Historical Sciences
• H-Environment Discussions
• History and Material Culture of Aerospace: AEROSP-L listserv@sivm.si.edu
• History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching: HPSST-L listserv@qucdn.queensu.ca
• History of Astronomy Discussion Group: HASTRO-L listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu
• History of Australian Science & Technology: Hist-Aust-Sci-Tech-L majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au
• History of Chemistry: CHEM-HIST maiser@listserv.ngate.uni-regensburg.de
• History of Computing: SHOTHC-L listserv@sivm.si.edu
• History of Early Science: EARLYSCIENCE-L listserv@listserv.vt.edu
• History of East Asian Science Discussion Group: EASCI lstsrv@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
• History of the Health Sciences: CADUCEUS-L listproc@list.umaryland.edu (in the body of the e-mail type: sub caduceus-l Your_first_name Your_last_name).
• History of Philosophy of Science: hopos-l listserv@lsv.uky.edu
• History of Science, Medicine, and Technology: H-SCI-MED-TECH
• History of Scientific Instruments: RETE majordomo@maillist.ox.ac.uk
• History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: CHEIRON listserv@yorku.ca
• History of Technology: HTECH-L listserv@sivm.si.edu
• HSS Women’s Caucus: HSS_Women-L; contact Pam Mack pammack@clemson.edu
• Medieval Science Discussion List: MEDSCI-L listserv@BROWNVM.brown.edu
• Oldenburg: German Histry of Science Listserv. Send a message with the words “subscribe Oldenburg” to maiser@listserv.ngate.uni-regensburg.de
• Science, Technology and Health Care Archives Forum: STHC-L listproc@library.ucla.edu
• Women Historians of Medicine (WHOM): LISTSERV@ARTSCI.WUSTL.EDU (in the body of the e-mail type: SUBSCRIBE WHOM YOUR NAME)

Archives and Collections

Find information about visiting archives, libraries, museums, manuscript collections, and more. Projects dedicated to preserving the papers of famous scientists can be found on the Papers page.

• Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
• Albert Einstein Archives, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Archives, Washington, DC
• American Philosophical Society Library and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Iowa State University
• The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, MN, USA
• Birr Castle Science Centre, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland
• California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, CA, USA
• Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• CERN Historical and Scientific Archives, Geneva, Switzerland
• Charles Babbage Center for the History of Computing, University of Minnesota
• Columbia University Health Sciences Library, Archives and Special Collections
• Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
• Deutches Museum, Munich, Germany
• Dibner Library at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
• Hagley Museum & Library, Wilmington, DE, USA
• Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI, USA
• History of Science Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• IEEE History Center
• Library of Congress, Washington DC
• Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO, USA
• Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles
• Museo Galileo, Florence, Italy
• The National Archives, Richmond, UK
• National Archives, Washington DC, and many other locations throughout the USA
• Needham Research Institute, including the East Asian History of Science Library, Cambridge, England
• Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD, USA
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milan, Italy
• The Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA
• The Royal Society, London, UK
• Smith College History of Science Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
• Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
• Steno Museet, The Steno Museum, Aarhus, Denmark