Collins Memorial Library: STHS 480: Senior Practicum in Science, Technology, Health, and Society Studies: Research Guide for STHS 480

This library guide provides information about and links to primary source materials that you may wish to explore as part of your STHS 480 course project. Please use the navigation links to the right to explore collections of primary source materials.

You will want to create your set of primary sources early on in the course of the semester. When you are at a point to do so, you can use the following databases to discover and find scholarly secondary sources.

History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM)
An international bibliography for the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present. Includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other materials.
IsisCB
IsisCB is an open access discovery service for the history of science, built on 40-years of data in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science.
JSTOR

An multidisciplinary journal archive. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Includes the Artstor image collections.
Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources including: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, patents, legal opinions and federal & state court opinions.