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Science & Technology
 Websites presented in alphabetical order ASAP Web: Australian Science Archives Project 
 ASAP "aims to provide access to Australia's scientific, technological, and medical heritage. It has links with Australia's major scientific and cultural institutions including the National Library of Australia, Australian Archives, the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering." The site also has information "on over 3,000 Australian scientists from the eighteenth century to the present" and a Cabinet of Curiosities with "200 years of Australian science represented through art." http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/ Topics: History By Place, Libraries & Archives by Type, Notable People, Regions of the World, Science, Science Last updated Aug 4, 2004 Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces From the Hill Ornithology Collection, Cornell University Library
This site "traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques — from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography — during that period." Includes an exhibition, timeline of artists and authors, a guide to the ornithological collections at Cornell University libraries, and a bibliography. Searchable. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/ Topics: Animals, Libraries & Archives by Type, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated May 5, 2005 Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
Explores "achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright." Includes photographs, measured drawings, color transparencies, and more. Searchable, and browsable by subject, and place. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/ Topics: Architecture, Architecture by Place, History, Libraries & Archives by Type, Science, Technology Last updated Oct 9, 2004 Classic Computer Magazine Archive
This site presents the full text of early personal computing magazines, including images and advertisements. Includes dozens of issues from the 1970s to the early 1990s from Antic, STart, Hi-Res, Creative Computing, Creative Computing Video and Arcade Games, Compute!, and Tandy Computer Whiz Kids. Also includes brief biographies of Antic and STart writers. Searchable and browsable. http://www.atarimagazines.com/ Topics: Computers, Computers, Libraries & Archives by Type, Magazines Last updated Aug 10, 2009 The Ecology and Natural Resources Collection
This collection "brings together, in digital form two categories of primary and secondary publications: writings about research in ecology and natural resources conducted by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable titles in these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries." Browse selected collections (such as the Aldo Leopold Papers or the Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory), or search the entire collection. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EcoNatRes Topics: Environment, Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Oct 16, 2005 Historical Math Monographs
A collection of hundreds of digitized general monographs, math books, and New York State historical pamphlets and monographs. Browse the entire collection by author or title, or search within the math books or by multiple collections. Many of the documents are not in English. From Cornell University Library. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/math/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Mathematics Last updated Oct 6, 2009 The Hive and the Honeybee: Selections from the E. F. Phillips Beekeeping Collection at Mann Library
This collection represents "one of the largest and most complete apiculture libraries in the world." Search and browse the full text of ten rare books, including "Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained" (1853) and "New Observations on the Natural History of Bees" (1806). From the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University. http://bees.library.cornell.edu Topics: Agriculture, Insects & Arachnids, Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated May 5, 2005 Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship (ISTL)
Quarterly publication for science and technology librarians. Issues feature articles, webliographies, and database and book reviews. Archive extends back to 1991. Searchable. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/ Topics: Librarianship, Libraries & Archives by Type, Magazines, Social Science Last updated Sep 13, 2005 Scitopia
This site is a "free federated search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies." Use it to "search over 3 million documents, plus patents and government data" from "fifteen societies spanning 150 years of sci-tech scholarship." Participating groups include the Acoustical Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the American institute of Physics, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. http://www.scitopia.org/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Science, Technology Last updated Aug 8, 2007 |
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