History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Subject websites

• Caltech Institute Archives. An archive of papers, artifcats, and images relating to the Institute's history.
• Hospital Records Database. A joint project of the National Register of Archives and the Wellcome Library to provide information on the extent and location of UK hospital records.
• Library and Archives history Founded in 1880, it houses more than 65,000 books and pamphlets and over 3,000 periodical titles. The collections of the British Computer Society (BCS), Institution of Electronic & Radio Engineers (IERE), the Institution of Manufacturing Engineers (IMfgE) and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE)
• National Archive for the History of Computing. The most important UK collection of documents and images. Held at the University of Manchester.
• National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists. Includes a Guide to the manuscript papers of British scientists that it has catalogued.

• CompHist. Recently established e-mail list from the SHOT special interest group on the History of Computing. 
• H-Sci-Med-Tech. A general list established in 1997.
• HISTMED. A list intended to "facilitate communication among the history of medicine community in the United Kingdom", administered by the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick.
• HISTORY-OF-COMPUTING-UK. Established in 1998 for the NAHC. 
• LIS-SCI-MED-EMPIRE. A rarely used JISCMAIL list established in 1998 relating to the relationship between science, medicine and the growth of colonialism.
• Mersenne.  "...promoting discussion in the science studies community".

• Anesthesia History Files. Includes "Anesthesia and Pain History on the Internet", which itself includes a number of fulltext items usually transcribed from original sources.
• Global Project on the History of Leprosy. From the International Leprosy Association and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford.
• History of Phrenology on the Web.

• 4000 years of women in science. Biographies, images, etc.
• Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community, 1880-1970. Biographical data on some 4400 UK chemists compliled by Robin Mackie and Gerrylynn Roberts at the Open University.
• Darwin Online. This site contains the text of Darwin's publications and thousands of handwritten manuscripts, plus a  bibliography, manuscript catalogue,and supplementary works.
• Einstein Archives Online. Project to digitize Einstein's published and unpublished, scientific and non-scientific papers.
• History of Science / Science Studies Reference Sources. A useful listing of printed reference resources.
• Internet History of Science Sourcebook.
• Reading the History of Western Science: a List of Good Places to Start. Compiled for the HSS, a useful annotated listing of printed resources.
• Robert Boyle Project. Devoted to the life and work of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), it includes a set of images of the core volumes of the Royal Society's Boyle Papers, plus other materials.

• Alexander Graham Bell: Notebooks project.
• Atomic Archive. Sponsored by the US National Foundation of Science.
• Thomas A. Edison Papers. Project to put Edison's papers on the web.

• Anatomia, 1522-1867. This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy taken from 95 individual works from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
• Emilio Segré Visual Archives. Images from some 5,000 photographs, lithographs etc held at the AIP's Neils Bohr Library. Devoted mainly to US physicists and astronomers, but includes images of some European scientists too.
• Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement. A growing archive of more than 2,200 items which includes books and papers as well as pictoral images.
• Images from the Clendening Library. Several hundred images taken from medical and natural history texts, most of which were printed before 1800. Organized by theme.
• Images from the History of Medicine (IHM). Nearly 60,000 images taken from the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
• Index of Medieval Medical Images (IMMI). A project to index and take images from medieval medical manuscripts in North American collections.
• Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library. More than 160,000 images from the "world's leading source of images on the history of medicine, modern biomedical science and clinical medicine."

• British Library.
• COPAC. The merged online catalogue of the major UK university libraries, plus the three national libraries. 
• Manchester Library and Information Service. Manchester's public library includes Manchester Central Reference Library.  
• Manchester Metropolitan University Library.
• University of Salford Information Services. Includes the library. 
• Libdex. 18,000 libraries worldwide.
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
• Die Deutsche Bibliothek.
• Library of Congress.

• Adler Museum of Medicine. University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, South Africa.
• Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie. Paris.
• The Computer Museum. Bletchley Park.
• Epact. An electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums, the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford; the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence; the British Museum, London; and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.
• Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (Institute and Museum of the History of Science). Florence.
• Ironbridge Gorge Museums. Shropshire. Industrial archaeology in the West Midlands.
• Museum of the History of Science. University of Oxford. Online exhibitions, image collections, etc.
• Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
• Museum of Transport. Greater Manchester.
• National Air and Space Museum. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, includes details of exhibitiuons and archives.
• National Railway Museum. York.
• Natural History Museum. London.
• Pitt Rivers Museum. Oxford. Anthropology and world archaeology.
• Science Museum. London.
• Thackray Museum. Leeds. A history of medicine and pharmacy collection. 
• Whipple Museum for the History of Science. Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

• Guide to Institutions. A browsable list of UK academic departments, compiled by the British Society for the History of Science.
• American Association for the History of Medicine.
• British Society for the History of Mathematics.
• British Society for the History of Science.
• Division of History of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
• European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.  
• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.
• European Society for the History of Science.
• History of Science Society.
• International Committee for the History of Technology.
• International Network for the History of Hospitals.
• International Society for the History of Medicine.
• International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS).
• International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology.
• Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology.
• Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group.
• Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science.
• Society for the History of Natural History.
• Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).
• Society for the Social History of Medicine.
• Society for the Social Studies of Science.

• Center for the History of Physics. Great collections curated by the American Institute of Physics.
• Charles Babbage Institute. An historical archives and research center of the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting study of the history of information technology and information processing and their impact on society.
• Chemical Heritage Foundation.
• Dittrick Medical History Center. A part of  Case Western includes the Dittrick Museum of Medical History.
• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Specializing in the history of botany and plant sciences, this Institute's website includes catalogues, databases, etc.
• IEEE History Center. Preserves, researches and promotes the history of information and electrical technologies. 
• Smithsonian Institution. US museum complex and research organiazation.

Intute - Psci-com.  A catalogue of resources covering public engagement with science, science communication and the impact of science on society, plus a calendar of events, and a link to the Psci-com electronic discussion list.

• Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (German National Library of Medicine).
• Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution.. Its collection of rare books and manuscripts relating to the history of science and technology.
• History of the Health Sciences, Libraries and Archives. A list of libraries - mainly US - with historic collections. 
• National Library of Medicine. The world's largest biomedical library, with a dedicated History of Medicine section and collection. Includes catalogues, digital and image collections, and an Online Syllabus Archive, a collection of syllabi in the history of medicine and related areas.  
• New York Academy of Medicine. Has a substantial library with an important historical collection.
• Osler Library of the History of Medicine. McGill University. Canada's "foremost scholarly resource in the history of medicine".
• Royal Society Library and Archives.
• Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. One of the world's greatest collections of books, manuscripts, pictures and films around the meaning and history of medicine. With catalogue, and searchable archive and image collections, the last requiring registration.

• Alchemy Web. A large site devoted to alchemy in all its facets.
• Echo - exploring and collecting history online. From George Mason University, covers science, technology and industry.
• Guide to the History of Science. People, institutions, organizations, etc. in science history, from the History of Science Society.
• History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine. A selection of web resources maintained by the Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence. Especially useful for non-English language European links.
• History of Science on the Internet. Assembled by the Division of History of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
• History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links. Compiled by the History of the Health Sciences section of the MLA.
• Intute: General Science. From the University of Manchester, a collection of resources on the physical sciences and the history of science.
• Intute: History and Philosophy of Science. Another collection of Intute resources.
• MedHist. Part of Intute, a Wellcome Library produced guide to history of medicine resources on the internet.
• Physlink. History of physics and astronomy online.
• Virtual Guide to the History of Russian Science and Technology. Links to resources maintained from the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology.
• Voice of the Shuttle: Science Technology and Culture. "A selection of resources on science, medicine, technology, and cultural-studies/historical approaches to science".