Summer Library Hours: http://library.wustl.edu/about/hours.html DORA, assessment of research and criticism of Journal Impact Factor in the news [post from bio library news blog] Archive Finder Archive Finder is a current directory which describes over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the... Continue reading

This is not a comprehensive list of new books. This is a list of books added with call number Q-T and history or biography in the subject headings. There are certainly other new books related to the history of science, technology and medicine, so please search the catalog for specific... Continue reading

Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously-unknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes and others: 15-minute TED talk More info and see many colored illustrations: Archimedes palimpsest / edited by Reviel Netz ... [et al.] Cambridge ;... Continue reading

Announcing the New Biodiversity Heritage Library! Several improvements to the Biodiversity Heritage Library search and display have been made. BHL includes digitized versions of over two million volumes, books and journals, of biodiversity literature collected over 200 years. Continue reading

The Wellcome Library has a new digitized archive, Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics. Twenty archive collections relating to genetics research and biochemistry have been digitised. The content ranges in date from 1863 to 2008. You may need to create a few user login to access some of the files. Continue reading

New Dissertation Reviews on for February 2013 on science, medicine and technology Recently I've been having intermittent success in finding freely available fulltext for dissertations on the web. More and more universities are establishing open access archives like our own ETD collection. Sometimes dissertations are embargoed and sometimes they are... Continue reading

The National Library of Medicine has recently announced several new participants in its History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium. In most cases, these records will lead you to primary source in paper at many institutions, however many special collections are being digitized so this may become even more useful over... Continue reading

Online journal backfile packages covering v.1 (usually)- 1996 have been acquired for Earth & Environmental Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, and Mathematics & Statistics. This involves over 300 titles, a few begin in the1850's. [We already had the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law backfile package.] In some cases we also have online... Continue reading

This is not a comprehensive list of new books. This is a list of books added with call number Q-T and history or biography in the subject headings. There are certainly other new books related to the history of science, technology and medicine, so please search the catalog for specific... Continue reading

History of science, technology and medicine is now available on EbscoHost. This is a popular interface with students. An added feature is that you can "Choose Databases" (such as America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts and/or Medline) to add and search several databases all at the same time. The database... Continue reading

Best Sellers: History of Science, By Bette-Lee Fox,February 2012 to January 10, 2013 as identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to catalog or Mobius catalog records when available. 1) Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe Dyson, George Pantheon 2012. ISBN 9780375422775. $29.95 2) In Pursuit of... Continue reading

This is not a comprehensive list of new books. This is a list of books added with call number Q-T and history or biography in the subject headings. There are certainly other new books related to the history of science, technology and medicine, so please search the catalog for specific... Continue reading

Thursday, January 31, 4:30 pm, King Center, 7th floor Bernard Becker Medical Library. Dr. Adrianne Noe (Director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine) "150th Anniversary and Grand Reopening of the National Museum of Health and Medicine" 27th Historia Medica Lecture More info. Tuesday, February 26, 12:10-1:30, Life Sciences... Continue reading

We often have access problems early in each calendar year. Often these are due to invoice problems or systems changes at the publisher. Please report access problems so we can get them repaired quickly. Email Ruth , use Ask Us! or use the EResources Problem Report form. Thank you! Continue reading

Exhibit October 1, 2012 – March 31, 2013 at Bernard Becker Medical Library Glaser Gallery – 7th Floor. Occultism and Science in the Early Modern World: An Exhibit of Rare Books Continue reading

Digital Connection: On Twitter, from Medical Heritage Library, lists several active twitter feeds in the history of science and medicine. Continue reading

Our trial access turns into a campus-wide subscription in 2013. Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989+. Campuswide: What's Included?; includes the annual Almanac of Higher Education, 1995+. Continue reading

Washington University undergraduate and graduate students may enter. Entry deadline is Feb.28, 2013. More info about the 26th annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition. Continue reading

Before Jan. 14, 2013, unbound paper journals, previously shelved on Level 1, will be moved to Level A, where VHS tapes were shelved. [VHS tapes will be moved to Level B.] Locations in the catalog will be updated. Many journals are available online, but please ask if you have trouble... Continue reading

We currently have a 60 day trial on campus access to Chronicle of Higher Education. No login in required for on-campus or authenticated Washington University users. Enjoy the access! This is quite expensive, so please email me or your primary subject librarian with your comments, pro or con. Thank you. Continue reading

British Periodicals Collection I and II provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. Fulltext... Continue reading

The National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, announces new and redesigned Web sites for the History of Medicine Division and its Exhibition Program. The redesigned main site for the History of Medicine Division offers enhanced organization for learning... Continue reading

This is not a comprehensive list of new books. This is a list of books added with call number Q-T and history or biography in the subject headings. There are certainly other new books related to the history of science, technology and medicine, so please search the catalog for specific... Continue reading

We now have online access to History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, v.34, 2012+ Several Elsevier/ScienceDirect perpetual-access backfile packages were recently purchased and activated for WUSTL users: Materials Science, Neuroscience, Neuroscience Supplement, Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Technology, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences Supplement, Computer Science, Computer... Continue reading

Two items of possible interest: This summer there were a few changes to PubMed. The new filter display affects the way you retrieve history of medicine citations: More information from the NLM Technical Bulletin. The (mostly true) origins of the scientific journal, from Scientific American blog, July 27, 2012 Continue reading