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viii<br />

Introduction<br />

cretion <strong>of</strong> the bibliographer.<br />

Book reviews. In the book review section,<br />

reviews are listed alphabetically by author or<br />

editor <strong>of</strong> the book. In the author index, they are<br />

listed under the author <strong>of</strong> the review, but not<br />

author <strong>of</strong> the book.<br />

Dissertations. Dissertations cited from Dissertation<br />

Abstracts International have been entered<br />

from the information in the electronic<br />

database UMI ProQuest Dissertation and Theses,<br />

which is a subscription database accessible<br />

through Proquest at the following website:<br />

http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/<br />

gateway.<br />

Source notes. In book records, some descriptions<br />

or contents lists are marked as “from<br />

WorldCat.” This means that the information<br />

came directly from the OCLC World-<br />

Cat database (see http://www.oclc.org/<br />

worldcat/) and not from the book itself.<br />

Where a description states “from the publisher,”<br />

this means that it was taken from the publisher’s<br />

website or from its printed catalog.<br />

Electronic publication conventions. Where<br />

there are both electronic and print forms <strong>of</strong> a<br />

journal record, the entry does not indicate which<br />

version was used to check the citation. Where<br />

only an electronic form exists, electronic access<br />

information is given for the article. In some<br />

cases, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number<br />

<strong>of</strong> an the item is listed. DOI numbers are<br />

unique for all digitally published works. Works<br />

with a DOI can be located through the internet<br />

at the following url: http://www.doi.org/.<br />

Readers should note that access to e-published<br />

articles <strong>of</strong>ten requires a subscription or a fee.<br />

Many libraries will have such subscriptions but<br />

this varies widely.<br />

General Note on Classification<br />

The current <strong>Isis</strong> classification system for<br />

works in the history <strong>of</strong> science is a two-level<br />

hierarchy. It emphasizes time period and discipline,<br />

and the bulk <strong>of</strong> the bibliography is<br />

found in section G. Section F deals with geographically<br />

based cultural traditions. It is<br />

designed for subjects that are either not part<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Western scientific tradition or, as in the<br />

case <strong>of</strong> Islamic science, <strong>of</strong>ten studied apart<br />

from the Western historical tradition. Section E<br />

holds items classified by discipline that do not<br />

fit into the narrower chronological or cultural<br />

sections. Sections A through D accommodate<br />

works either that are very general, that focus on<br />

non-disciplinary topics, or that have a specific<br />

analytical framework.<br />

Items whose subjects are confined to a particular<br />

chronological period in the Western scientific<br />

tradition will be found in that time period.<br />

Where a subject stretches between two periods,<br />

the item will be in the earlier period. Where<br />

a subject encompasses more than two chronological<br />

periods, the item will be placed in the<br />

topical or disciplinary category in the first part<br />

<strong>of</strong> the bibliography.<br />

Where an item covers two disciplinary fields,<br />

it will probably be classified in one <strong>of</strong> the two<br />

fields. Items covering three or more widely<br />

disparate fields will usually be classified in a<br />

non-disciplinary category.<br />

All items are entered only once. Because<br />

most works could easily be classified in more<br />

than one subject area, it is impossible for each<br />

classification division to contain a comprehensive<br />

list <strong>of</strong> all works relevant to that subject.<br />

Users should consult the subject index for a<br />

thorough coverage <strong>of</strong> topics.<br />

For a more detailed description <strong>of</strong> this system,<br />

see the introduction to this bibliography<br />

in volume 93 (2002): pp. vii–viii. You<br />

can also find my history <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Isis</strong> classification<br />

system in Circumscribere volume<br />

6 (2009), which can be accessed online at<br />

http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/<br />

circumhc/article/view/1942.<br />

HistSciTechMed Database<br />

Online access to the <strong>Isis</strong> <strong>Current</strong> <strong>Bibliography</strong><br />

data is through the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong>,<br />

Technology, and Medicine database<br />

(HistSciTechMed, formerly HSTM). It is<br />

hosted by OCLC and available through its First-<br />

Search platform. HistSciTechMed contains all<br />

<strong>of</strong> the data from the <strong>Isis</strong> bibliographies from<br />

1974 to the present. In addition, it contains<br />

data from three other bibliographies: the <strong>Current</strong><br />

<strong>Bibliography</strong> in the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> Technology,<br />

containing entries from 1987 to the present;<br />

the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza<br />

(BISS) from 1982 to the present; and data from<br />

the Wellcome <strong>Bibliography</strong> for the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

Medicine from 1991 to 2004, supplemented<br />

regularly with monograph citations supplied<br />

by the Wellcome Library for the <strong>History</strong> and<br />

Understanding <strong>of</strong> Medicine.<br />

HistSciTechMed can be accessed through<br />

libraries or institutions with a subscription to<br />

the service or by individuals who are members<br />

<strong>of</strong> the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> <strong>Society</strong>. For<br />

individual member access, go to the HSS web<br />

site http://www.hssonline.org/teaching/<br />

teaching_databasenew.html and follow the<br />

instructions for access.<br />

Searching the HistSciTechMed database. Because<br />

HistSciTechMed contains data compiled<br />

by several independent bibliographers, no rigid

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