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Reference Databases

AccessScience   - Includes McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th ed.

 

Gale Virtual Reference Library   - Includes

Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics

Encyclopedia of science and religion

Gale Encyclopedia of Science

 

Oxford Reference Online   - Includes

The Oxford companion to the history of modern science

Science, technology, and society : an encyclopedia

 

Search engines

Wolfram Alpha - Computational knowledge engine

 

Global Science Gateway - From DOE and the British Library, an international science portal.

 

Science and Engineering Indicators - Essays and history, statistics and legislative statements relating to science and technology.

 

Science.gov - ..."a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results." Over 1,000 annotated sites.

 

Print resources

 

General

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. (Ref 503 V338a) 2 vols. New York: John Wiley, 2002.

 

History of Science

 

Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures (Ref 509 Se48)

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1997

 

The history of science and religion in the western tradition : an encyclopedia (Ref 215 F395) New York : Garland Pub., 2000

 

Medieval science, technology, and medicine : an encyclopedia (Ref 509.02 G490) New York : Routledge, 2005

 

Science in the ancient world : an encyclopedia (Ref 509.3 L446) Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004


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