LibGuides: History of Science and Technology: Home

Off-Site Username and Password List

Database Offsite Password List, Oct. 2021

Periodicals: Scholarly Journals, Magazines and Newspapers

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Academic Onefile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window

General Reference Databases

These databases contain general overview articles and primary sources, in addition to more in-depth articles from periodicals across multiple disciplines.

Science in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window

History Databases

U.S. History in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window
"Information on hundreds of... significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources." Searchable by keyword, or browse the 420 "Topics", sets of information on a broad range of historical and current topics.
World History in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window
World History: The Modern Era (ABC-CLIO) This link opens in a new window
(1500 CE ~ Present)

Other Databases

A-Z List of All Databases
List of all online databases that our library subscribes to, listed alphabetically by the database name

Historical Newspapers

From Our Databases

New York Times, Historical, 1851-2018 (with Index) This link opens in a new window
This is the archive of all issues of The New York TImes from 1851 through 2018.
Newspapers.com (ON CAMPUS access ONLY) This link opens in a new window
Newspapers.com is only accessible via the SH campus network; it is not accessible from off campus. It contains both current and historic newspapers, from 1854-2021.

From the Web

Primary Sources

Internet History of Science Sourcebook
(from Fordham University)
Oral history of British Science | British Library
Soviet Nuclear History
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Space Race
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Documents on the 20th-century competition for supremacy in spaceflight capacity between the United States and the Soviet Union.
JSTOR | Aerospace Historian (journal)
Coverage: 1965-1988

Scholarly Journal Articles vs. Popular Magazine Articles

Scholarly Journal vs. Popular Magazine Articles Comparison Chart

"Anatomy of a Scholarly Article", from North Carolina State University
Interactive example of the different components of a scholarly article.
Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Evaluating Sources: What Is Peer Review?

Evaluating Sources: Using the CRAAP Criteria

Useful Websites

Google Patents
Search patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a few other countries. It's easier to search by inventor names such as LaMarcus Thompson.

Depending on your topic, the following websites can be useful

Computer History Museum
Housing a collection of artifacts related to the history of computing, many transcripts of interviews, documents and photographs are available online. Look under Collections and Exhibits tabs to find out what's available online. Some of these are primary sources.
History Program | American Institute of Physics
PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).