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What Cities Are Exploring the IsisCB?
When I started as editor of the Isis Bibliography in 2002, one of the main goals I had was to find a way to get this valuable research data into the hands of more people from around the globe who simply didn’t have as many resources as we did in the United States and Western Europe. That…
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IsisCB Cumulative: Data from 1913 to 1975 is now open access
Today we have released an open access HTML version of seven volumes of two editions of the Isis Cumulative Bibliography. This is the first time these bibliographies have been made freely accessible in an online digital format. You can get access to IsisCB Cumulative here. The citations in these volumes will eventually be added to IsisCB…
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Dissertations in the IsisCB…and what they say about our history
Recently, I have been analyzing the dissertation data in the IsisCB, looking for information that might help us understand the history of our discipline. The dissertation records have a lot of rich information in them, and that information can be put to use in understanding more about the institutional context of history of science. The first…
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IsisCB Explore – Version 0.13 – Updates and Improvements
This afternoon, we implemented a series of upgrades to the IsisCB Explore system. We are now at version 0.13! These changes should make navigation more intuitive, improve search, and encourage more interaction. There were three main changes. First of all, we significantly modified the way that we mark authority records by indicating all links with…
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On the Scholarly Merit of Creating Your Own Research Tool: An Interview with Jennifer Rampling
The following interview with Jennifer Rampling was conducted by Stephen Weldon at the History of Science Society Meeting in San Francisco, California, on November 21, 2015.[1] Rampling, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University, won the first Neu-Whitrow Prize in 2013 for her compilation of the Catalogue of the Ripley Corpus. The Neu-Whitrow Prize is…
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Looking at the Main Features of IsisCB Explore
The new search site of IsisCB Explore has many features that may not be self-evident when you first use it. Before you try out explore, take a moment to familiarize yourself with what it can do: Save your searches. For logged-in users, the system automatically logs your search history and gives you the ability to…
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IsisCB Explore Opens for Use
Please try our new discovery service: IsisCB.org/Explore! The past several months have been busy at the IsisCB office. In addition to continuing our work on the 2015 Current Bibliography, we have created a research platform using 40 years of IsisCB data. (See my earlier comments on this here and here especially). The new platform, which…
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Neu-Whitrow Prize 2017 Announced by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation
This past summer, the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation announced that it will award a second Neu-Whitrow Prize in 2017 for a scholar who produces “the most innovative research tool for managing, documenting and analyzing sources in the history of science and technology.” Originally called the Neu-Whitrow Bibliography Prize, the award was created in honor…
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Grants to attend THATCampHSS 2015!
The IsisCB is providing grants to help anyone needing financial assistance to attend this year’s THATCampHSS in San Francisco. With the grant, THATCampers will only have to pay $50 (for a shared room) or $100 (for a single room) for the Wednesday night stay. This is a great price to stay at the Westin St….
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A New Paradigm
Since my post at the end of July, a great deal has happened. Developments are taking place along two parallel lines that will eventually be integrated. First of all, the Isis Cumulative Bibliography volumes that we photographed last year (5000 pages of text in eight volumes, covering the years from 1913 to 1975) are now…
Isis Bibliography
Sources and Resources for the History of Science and Allied Fields
