HIST 366: Science in Germany 1800-1945

Library Resources

Reference Sources:

Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing

Reference D14 .E53 1999

Great Events from History II ~ Science and Technology

Reference Q125 G825 1991

Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture 1871-1990  

Reference DD14 M64 1998.

Finding Books:

Library Catalogs:

Truman Library Catalog (Our library’s collection of books, videos, periodicals, etc.)

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• Renew online

MOBIUS (Missouri academic library consortium)

• Request online, items arrive within 3-4 working days

• 21 day checkout, 2 renewals (if not needed elsewhere)

• When requesting, we are part of LANCE and remember to choose Truman State University as pickup location.

WorldCat (Libraries around the country)

• Available through FirstSearch.

• Use when WebCat and MOBIUS cannot provide needed materials

Finding Articles:

Historical Abstracts. 1954+

Humanities Abstracts1984+ 

General Science Abstracts

JSTOR

ATLA Religion Database1949+

Philosopher's Index1940+

Possible relevant journal title:

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences: – General Collection QC7 H692

Primary Sources:

Searching in Library Catalogs

Look for a historical figure as the author in Library Catalogs.

Keywords to use:

§         Sources, letters, personal narratives, diaries, speeches

§         chemistry and s:sources  -- s: limits the term sources to the subject field in the library catalog.

Microform Collections

Follow the links: Library home page® FIND IT button ® Microforms

            Landmarks of Science      a collection of microform books and journals, much of it in the original language, representing the history of science from the invention of printing until the end of the nineteenth century.  Predominant languages are English, French, German, and Italian. Included are works of Euclid, Friedrich Accum, Copernicus, Henri Poincare, Christian Wolff, Galileo, Johann Kepler, Rene Descartes and more than 2700 other scientists.   Medicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics, botany, zoology, astronomy, and geology are all represented, making this an ideal collection for tracing the development of scientific principles. 

Web Sites

German Studies Web: History – maintained by Western European Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries

http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wess/germ/hist.html

History of Germany: Primary Documents

http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Germany:_Primary_Documents