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Databases, Indexes & Websites

  • American National Biography
  • ArchivesUSA
  • ARTstor
    This image database of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts, design, and archaeological and anthropological objects also extends Instructor Priviliges to faculty who register. For username and password, call Tisch Library at 617-627-3460.
  • BIOSIS Archive for Biological Abstracts & BIOSIS Previews
    This database on ISI covers nearly 5,500 life science journals and 1,500 items from international meetings, review articles, books, and unique additional references from Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM. Its coverage of the life sciences including agriculture begins in 1926.
  • CAB Abstracts Archive
    Covers the fields of applied life sciences, agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment from 1910. Subjects indexed include molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, breeding, taxonomy, physiology and other aspects of pure science relating to organisms of agricultural, veterinary or environmental importance.
  • Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Global Health Archive
    This Ovid database indexes the world's literature on public health back to 1910, with links to some full-text articles.
  • History of Science, Technology & Medicine
  • History of Vaccines
  • John Snow: Pioneer of Epidemiology
    is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology.
  • National Library of Medicine
    • Changing the Face of Medicine celebrates American women physicians, including 8 Tufts alumnae, in a searchable exhibition of photographs, biographies, and testimonials.
    • History of Medicine Division
      • Digital Collections include an archive of syllabi for courses on the history of medicine.
      • History of Anatomy
        Dream Anatomy is their exhibition of anatomical images from 1500 to the present, drawn mainly from NLM collections.
      • Images from the History of Medicine
        Providing access to nearly 60,000 images, it includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes & graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social & historical aspects of medicine.
      • Medicine in the Americas
        Their growing collection of e-books in PDF format.
    • MEDLINE
      • Limit to History of Medicine journals under Journal Subsets.
      • History subheading may be applied to many Medical Subject Headings.
  • Nobel e-Museum lists laureates back to 1901 & provides cv's, biographies & articles about the achievements.
  • Oxford Reference Online
    searches dictionaries, encyclopedias & other reference works in the humanites, social sciences, foreign languages, medicine, science, technology, the performing arts & religion.
  • Tufts University
  • U. of Alberta's Resource Guide for the History of Medicine & the Health
    Sciences
  • U. of Illinois at Chicago's Guide to the History of Medicine
  • Web of Science from ISI
    • General Search, 1900+
    • Cited Reference Search is retrospective.
  • Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine's MedHist is a searchable & categorized gateway.
  • Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It presents a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.
  • Who Was Who, 1897-2005

Electronic Journals & Newspaper Archives

  • Boston Globe
    Full text from 1987. MA residents with a Boston Public Library account may search its historical file (1872-1925).
  • Bulletin of the History of Medicine, v. 70-, 1996+
  • Isis, v. 1-87, 1913-1996
  • JSTOR provides an annual bibliography entitled: Critical bibliography of the history & philosophy of science & of the history of civilization.
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation, v. 1, 1924+
  • Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences,
    v. 55, 2000+
  • Nature, 1950+
  • New York Review of Books, 1963+
  • New York Times Historical Archive, 1851-3 years before current date
    ProQuest collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in downloadable PDF files.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
  • PubMed Central is scanning the entire backruns of many journals. Search the archive by title or partial title.
  • Royal Society of London
    JSTOR provides full-text coverage of variously named proceedings of the
    Society, which hyperlink chronologically back to its inception in 1665.
    • Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. 1-4, 1800-1843
    • Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London, v. 5-6, 1843-1854
    • Philosophical Transactions, v. 1-12, 1665-1678
    • Philosophical Transactions, v. 13-65, 1683-1775
    • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. 66-177, 1776-1886
    • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, v. 178-186, 1887-1895
    • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character, v. 187-223, 1896-1934
    • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, v. 224-328, 1934-1990
    • Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, v. 329-352, 1990-1997
    • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, v. 7-75, 1854-1905
    • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character, v. 76-115, 1905-1934
    • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, v. 116-240, 1934-1990
    • Proceedings: Biological Sciences, v. 241-264, 1990-1997
  • Science
  • Social History of Medicine
  • Times of London Digital Archive
    The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements & llustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Data will be added monthly until the entire period of 1785-1985 is available in late 2003.
  • Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
    Fully searchable archive of the TLS 1902-1990 in image format and full-page context.

Reference Works

  • Biographical dictionary of medicine
    Reference Hist of Med Hist of Med WZ 112 B524b 1990
  • Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease
  • Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine
    Reference Hist of Med Hist of Med WZ 13 C737 1993
  • Dates in medicine
    Reference Hist of Med WZ 30 S443d 2000
  • Dictionary of scientific biography
    Reference Q 141 D554 1972
  • Dictionary of the history of medicine
    Reference Hist of Med WZ 13 S443d 1999
  • Health science books
    5th floor ZWB 100 H4345 1879-1982
  • Milestones in health & medicine
    Reference Hist of Med WZ 40 H263m 2000
  • Morton's medical bibliography
    Reference Hist of Med ZWB 100 G242m 1991
  • Who Was Who, 1897-2005
Tufts History

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