• General Resources
• Selected Primary Documents
• Selected Scholarly Organizations
• Journals in STS
• STS Programs, Regional and International
• Discussion Groups and List-Servs

General Resources

• Echo Project Research Center – Science, Technology, Industry
  http://echo.gmu.edu/
  Exploring and Collecting History on Line is presently the most comprehensive portal for the history of science and technology on the Web. Includes a searchable guide to more than 5,000 websites on the history of science, technology, and industry. Not to be confused with the very valuable ECHO, European Culture and History On-Line.
• Science and Technology Resources on the Internet
  http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-winter/internet.html
• History of Science Links, Prof. Robert A. Hatch, Florida University
  http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/10-HisSci/links/index.htm
• The Internet History of Science Sourcebook
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html
• Introduction to the History of Science in Non-Western Traditions
  http://www.hssonline.org/teach_res/resources/NonWestern.htm
• A history and philosophy of science tutorial by James Sumner
  http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/hps/index.htm
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
  http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/
• History of Race in Science
  http://www.racesci.org/
• The "Science" section of Books Online
  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?Q
• The History of Science/Science Studies Reference Pages
  http://gort.ucsd.edu/ds/initial.html
• Links to STS-Related Information Sources (N.C. State)
  http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/mds/stslinks.html
• The Medieval Technology Pages
  http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/Technology.html
• The History of Cybernetics at the American Society for Cybernetics
  http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/history.htm

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Selected Primary Documents

• Web of Science
  http://wos.mimas.ac.uk/
• Electronic Resources in the History of Science and Technology
  http://www.hssonline.org/teach_res/
• Papers of Noted Scientists
  http://www.hssonline.org/teach_res/
• Manuscripts of Galileo at Max Planck Institution for the History of Science
  http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/scientific_revolution/galileo/
• The Turing Archive for the History of Computing
  http://www.alanturing.net/
• History of Demography at ECHO
  http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/demography/demography
  A superb collection of scanned texts from 17th-19th Century Europe
• Lineamenta – A Research Database for Architectural Drawings
  http://lineamenta.biblhertz.it/index_html.en/view
  Lineamenta is an on-line collection of architectural drawings from the Roman Baroque period.
• Notebooks of Einstein and Minkowski in the Jewish National & University Library
  http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/relativityrevolution/jnul
• The Archimedes Project - Realizing the Vision of an Open Digital Research Library for the Long-Term Study of the History of Mechanics
  http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/historymechanics/archimdesecho
  Astounding scanned library of key primary sources from ancient to early modern mechanics.
• Collection of Sources on Chinese Mechanical Knowledge and its Relation to European Science
  http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/chineseknowledge/china
• Internet History of Science Source Book
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html
  Select primary documents culled from Fordham University's extensive 'source book' series of world history
• Instruments for Science, 1800-1914: Scientific Trade Catalogs in the Smithsonian Collections
  http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Trade-Literature/Scientific-instruments/
• The Alexander Graham Bell Papers at the Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html
• Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert Translation Project
  http://www.hti.umich.edu/d/did/index.html

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Selected Scholarly Organizations
Please note that nearly all of these organization have extensive links on their websites.

• SHOT – Society for the History of Technology
  http://shot.press.jhu.edu/
  Contains extensive resources for primary documents and tutorials in the history of technology
• HSS – History of Science Society
  http://www.hssonline.org/teach_res/
  Contains extensive resources for primary documents and tutorials in the history of science
• HOPOS – International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science
  http://web1.umkc.edu/scistud/hopos/
• American Association for the History of Medicine
  http://www.histmed.org/
• Chemical Heritage Foundation
  http://www.chemheritage.org/
• Society for the Social Studies of Science
  http://www.4sonline.org/society.htm
• Philosophy of Science Association
  http://philosophy.wisc.edu/PSA/Default.htm
• Journals in Science, Technology and Society
  http://www.umich.edu/~umsts/journals.html
  An extensive list from University of Michigan STS program – most journals without direct links can be found through the Bard library portal.
• Cornell Science and Technology Magazine
  http://www.rso.cornell.edu/scitech/
  An undergraduate journal devoted to science and technology issues

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STS Programs: Regional and International

• RPI STS program
  http://www.rpi.edu/dept/sts/
• Cornell, Department of Science & Technology Studies
  http://www.sts.cornell.edu/index.php
• Vassar STS program
  http://sciencetechnologyandsociety.vassar.edu/
• MIT STS Program
  http://web.mit.edu/sts/index-css.html
• Extensive List of national and international STS programs from University of Michigan
  http://www.umich.edu/~umsts/otherprogs.html

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Discussion Groups and List-Servs

• H-Sci-Med-Tech
  http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~smt/
• Sci-Tech-Studies
  http://geoclio.st.usm.edu/e-mail-lists.html
• Rete
  http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/rete/
• HOPOS-L
  http://scistud.umkc.edu/hopos/

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