Library News for History of Science, Medicine & Technology

Medical history digitization project

This looks like a project worth watching: National Library of Medicine Receives Grant to Digitize "Medical Heritage" Works Dating Back to 17th Century

Citation searching tools

Our best citing reference searching tool is Web of Science, but we do have other tools. Google Scholar's Cited By links are useful and sometimes give me a few unique references. Recently Google Scholar has added the ability to search within cited articles; I expect this will be very handy sometimes. I do find downloading citations from Google Scholar a bit clunky, although you can download one by one using Get it! buttons, if you have your Scholar Preferences set to include "Washington University in St Louis - Get it! @ WU." Get it! buttons are automatic if you are working on campus. [I think here are other tools that solve this problem also, such as Mendeley and others.] The University of Prince Edward Island has recently canceled their access to Web of Science and are hoping that alternatives may serve their scholars sufficiently. Don't worry; we are not considering this at WU currently. But I have listed a few of our alternatives here: Citation Tools. If you have other favorites, please let me know.

Western Waters Digital Library now available

Western Waters Digital Library offers free public access to digital collections of significant primary and secondary resources on water in the western United States. The WWDL is a valuable resource for researchers, policy makers, scholars, Native American tribes, professionals working in various fields, and others interested in contemporary and historic water issues.

ProfHacker

ProfHacker is a group blog from the Chronicle of Higher Education, delivering "tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education, Monday through Friday." It's freely available and includes good tips of all kinds regularly. I sometimes find the comments just as useful as the posts. There are lots of ways to follow this; at the web site, through its own feed http://chronicle.com/blog/ProfHacker/27/rss) which you can add to your favorite RSS reader. It's also included in the Wired Campus emails or RSS. Some recent posts include:
Automating Research with Google Scholar Alerts
Using Mendeley for Research Management
Letting Us Rip: Our New Right to Fair Use of DVDs | Information on the New DMCA Exemptions [not from ProfHacker but more info on this topic: Reading the Fine Print]

WU Mobile Library site (for handheld devices)

WU Libraries are developing a mobile site. Feel free to give it a try at: http://library.wustl.edu/m/. Expect improvements, but I will happily send along your comments and suggestions if you have some.

New Faculty/Graduate Student Orientation & Reception

Olin Library's annual New Faculty/Graduate Student Orientation & Reception will be August 30, 3-5pm. More details will be available later. 

Review of the database, History of Science, Technology and Medicine

There is a review of the database,History of Science, Technology and Medicine, in the Charleston Advisor, Volume 12, Number 1, July 2010, pp. 25-27: History of Science, Technology and Medicine, by Cathy Goodwin. The article includes several search tips and a comparison of content with NLM Gateway, Historical Abstracts, JSTOR and Web of Science.

The Find Articles tab on the History of Science, Medicine and Technology research guide is a handy place to find all these databases.

Olms Editions Reprint ebook package includes history of medicine

The Libraries have purchased the Olms Editions Reprint e-book package which includes 400 volumes of reprints of works published by the Georg Olms Verlag. This package includes at least 5 titles in the history of medicine. More info.

Never pure - book review

This book was recently reviewed in the NYT: Sorting Through the History of Science, With Plenty of Side Trips.

Never pure : historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority / Steven Shapin.

New books, May-June 2010

This list was generated by searching for new books with call numbers Q-T and with "history" or "biography" in the subject headings. Note: When the book is "in process" you can REQUEST it; you will then be notified as soon as it is available.

Advancements of learning : essays in honour of Paolo Rossi / edited by John L. Heilbron. Firenze : L.S. Olschki, 2007.
Andrew Duncan senior : physician of the Enlightenment / edited by John Chalmers. Edinburgh : National Museums Scotland, 2010.
Best kind of different : our family's journey with Asperger's Syndrome / Shonda Schilling with an introduction by Curt Schilling and a foreword by Peter B. Rosenberger. New York : William Morrow, 2010.
Birth of numerical analysis / editors, Adhemar Bultheel, Ronald Cools. Singapore Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2010.
Broken men : shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 / Fiona Reid. London : Continuum, 2010.
Choice of weapons / Gordon Parks with a new foreword by Wing Young Huie. St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2010.
Colour of paradise : the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires / Kris Lane. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Elegance in science : the beauty of simplicity / Ian Glynn. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Endocrine psychiatry : solving the riddle of melancholia / Edward Shorter, Max Fink. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Fireworks : pyrotechnic arts and sciences in European history / Simon Werrett. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Frederick William Sardeson, geologist, 1866-1958 / Malcolm P. Weiss. St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Geological Survey, 2000.
Galleries of friendship and fame : a history of nineteenth-century American photograph albums / Elizabeth Siegel. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
Germs, genes, & civilization : how epidemics shaped who we are today / David P. Clark. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2010.
Golgi : a biography of the founder of modern neuroscience / Paolo Mazzarello translated by Aldo Badiani, Henry A. Buchtel. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Halliburton's army : how a well-connected Texas oil company revolutionized the way America makes war / Pratap Chatterjee. New York : Nation Books, c2009.
Human documents : eight photographers / conceived and introduced by Robert Gardner essay by Eliot Weinberger edited by Charles Warren photography edited by Kevin Bubriski designed by Jeannet Leendertse. Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, c2009.
ICAO : a history of the International Civil Aviation Organization / David MacKenzie. Toronto Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2010.
Illustrated history of landscape design / Elizabeth Boults and Chip Sullivan. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2010.
Image and reality : KekulC), Kopp, and the scientific imagination / Alan J. Rocke. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Jorge Newbery, el conquistador del espacio / RaC:l Larra. Buenos Aires : Editorial Futuro, c1960.
Kentucky's coal industry : historical trends and future opportunities / Gerald A. Weisenfluh ... [et al.]. Lexington, Ky. : Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky, 1998.
Kitchen shrink : a psychiatrist's reflections on healing in a changing world / Dora Calott Wang. New York : Riverhead Books, c2010.
Last plague in the Baltic region 1709-1713 / Karl-Erik Frandsen. Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2010.
Mathesis universalis :l'idée de mathématique universelle d'Aristote à Descarte / David Rabouin. Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 2009.
Mires, physiciens, barbiers et charlatans Langres : Dominique Gueniot, [2004]
Most powerful idea in the world : a story of steam, industry, and invention / William Rosen. New York : Random House, c2010.
Murder of a landscape : the California farmer-smelter war, 1897-1916 / by Khaled J. Bloom. Norman, Okla. : Arthur H. Clark Co., 2010.
Natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish : reason and fancy during the scientific revolution / Lisa T. Sarasohn. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Nōkō gijutsu no rekishi chiri /Arizono Shōichirō. Tōkyō :Kokon Shoin, 2007
Paracelsus's theory of embodiment : conception and gestation in early modern Europe / by Amy Eisen Cislo. London Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2010.
Pisco, Peru, earthquake of August 15, 2007 : lifeline performance / edited by Alex K. Tang and JC6rgen Johansson sponsored by Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering. Reston, Va. : American Society of Civil Engineers : JSCE, c2010.
Red rockets' glare : spaceflight and the Soviet imagination, 1857-1957 / Asif A. Siddiqi. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Regionalizing science : placing knowledges in Victorian England / by Simon Naylor. London Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2010.
Revolutions of geometry / Michael O'Leary. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2010.
Scientific expeditions to the Arab world (1761-1881) / by J.M.I. Klaver. London : Arcadian Library Oxford New York : In association with Oxford University Press, 2009.
Spent : memoirs of a shopping addict / Avis Cardella. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550 / edited by Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, Alain Touwaide. Aldershot, England Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
Where the revolution began : Lawrence and Anna Halprin and the reinvention of public space / edited by Randy Gragg with essays by Randy Gragg, Janice Ross, John Beardsley photographs by Susan Seubert. Washington, DC : Spacemaker Press, c2009.
Whose fair? : experience, memory, and the history of the great St. Louis Exposition / James Gilbert. Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Zodiac of Paris : how an improbable controversy over an ancient Egyptian artifact provoked a modern debate between religion and science / Jed Z. Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.