Research Guide for Professor Gitelman's History of Science 184v: The Social Life of Paper

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Books (HOLLIS and WorldCat)

To find books on a topic in HOLLIS, enter likely keywords. Scan for pertinent records and note the Subject terms. Then redo the search using the proper Subject terms. Thus, a keyword search on "cardboard" yields records with the Subject term "Paperboard" which is the term systematically applied to records of books about cardboard. Other useful Subject terms include:

If you enter "Paper industry" in the basic search screen as a Subject beginning with... search, you will retrieve the Subject "Paper industry" broken down to show various aspects. This is often very useful.

You can browse the paper-related shelves online. Browsing the physical shelves allows you to dip and check indexes, but you will not see books that are checked out or in the Harvard Depository.

For more on HOLLIS.

For material not available at Harvard, search in: WorldCat (the OCLC Union Catalog) which includes catalog records from over 45,000 libraries worldwide but largely U.S. Includes books, periodicals, archives and manuscripts, maps, videotapes, computer readable files, etc. Includes Boston-area libraries.

Importance of WorldCat:

 

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan will obtain books that are at the Baker Business Library. They will also obtain Journal articles which they get within a few days electronically.

 

Online Full Text

Full text for works dated 1475-1700 can be accessed in Early English Books Online (EEBO). Uses Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Full text for works dated 1700-1800 can be accessed in Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Does not use Library of Congress Subject Headings. Do Subject searches in HOLLIS or WorldCat. Then find the books by author or title in ECCO.

Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850 contains full text of numerous works related to paper.

 

Primary Sources

Periodical Articles

Scientific Literature

Web of Science Citation Indexes allow citation searching, that is, starting with an article of interest and finding more recent articles that have cited it. A record consists of a citation and the article's bibliography (in abbreviated form). The citations themselves can be searched via author, title or other searches or the bibliographies can be searched for the presence of a chosen work (a cited reference search). Since 1999, abstracts have been included. Includes book reviews. A guide is available: Searching the Citation Indexes (Web of Science). The Web of Science comprises three indexes: Science Citation Index, (1900- ), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956- ) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975- ). The indexed journals are listed by subject categories in the Master Journal List.

Applied Science and Technology Index Retrospective (1913-1983) includes Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983). Industrial arts index (1913-57) indexes English-language applied science, technical, trade, and management literature: the literature of practice.

Continued by:
Applied Science and Technology (1958- ) which indexes over 350 English-language periodicals worldwide. Includes book reviews. Online version offers indexing (1983- ) and abstracts (1993- ).
LOCATION: Baker Business Indexes (1958-82)
LOCATION: Cabot Science Harvard Depository (1968-99)

Bibliographical/Book History Literature. A guide is available.

General/Popular Literature

Subject index to periodicals (1915-61) covers economics, politics, society, and general interest science and technology, as well as the humanities. Arrangement is by subject. Book reviews are listed under the subject of the book reviewed.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 663.30 Library has: 1915+

Continued by: British humanities index (1962- )
LOCATION: Widener: RR 663.33

Periodicals Index Online indexes contents of thousands of journals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Covers journals from North America, the United Kingdom, and the rest of the English-speaking world and journals in other European languages including French, German, Italian and Spanish. Includes the complete table of contents for each issue of each journal.

Readers' guide to periodical literature (1900- ) indexes many American popular periodicals. Online version: Reader's Guide Retrospective (WilsonWeb), 1890-1982.
LOCATION: Gutman Education: Ref Index AI3.R48 (1925-90)
LOCATION: Kennedy School of Gov: Ref Index (1982-93)
LOCATION: Lamont: REF.ROOM AI 3.R48 (1900-2004)
LOCATION: Law School: Lang Ref Index AI 3.R48 Library has: Latest 10 years.

RSAP Resources for Research: Periodicals (Research Society for American Periodicals) provides links to collections of 18th, 19th, and 20th century full-text periodicals.

American Periodicals Series Online (1740-1900) offers full text of about 1100 American periodicals. Includes several scientific and medical journals including the American Journal of Science and the Medical Repository.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile includes several Nineteenth Century periodical indexes together with many separate indexes to individual periodicals. To see a list of the indexes and separately indexed periodicals, choose Browse Mode, select the "About" tab, and click "To see a full list of all titles currently online". The most important index included is Poole's index to periodical literature (1802-1906) which indexes 479 American and English periodicals. In the print version, articles are indexed by subject, not author. Fiction, poetry, plays are listed by title. Book reviews are listed under subject; reviews of fiction, poetry, plays are listed under the author of the work. Print version of Poole's index:
LOCATION: Widener: RR 663. 5 Library has: 6 v. in 7

Author indexing is provided by Cumulative Author Index for Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906.
LOCATION: Lamont: REF.ROOM AI3.P73x 1971
LOCATION: Widener: RR 663. 5.1

Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals (1824-1900) gives the contents of Victorian periodicals under the title of the periodical. Author, but no subject, index. Includes book reviews (author of review indexed in print version). CD-ROM version allows keyword searching of article titles. The Curran Index: Additions to and Corrections of The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, by Eileen M. Curran, is available online.
LOCATION: Child Memorial: ChM 1048
LOCATION: Lamont: REF.ROOM AI3.W45
LOCATION: Widener: RR 663. 34
LOCATION: Widener: Reference Services room: Ask for CD-ROM at Reference Desk

Newspaper Articles

A list of the basic sources for newspaper articles is available in Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes.

Images

International history of paper and paper making microform: the Loeber collection of the Dutch Foundation for Paper History. Lisse, Netherlands: MMF Publications, 1992-95.  668 microfiches + guides (2 v. ; 30 cm.) + 2 floppy disks.
Location :  Microforms (Lamont) INDEX Microfiche W 4253 [= Guide with floppy disk in pocket]  
Location :  Microforms (Lamont) INDEX Microfiche W 4253.1 [= Guide to Photo Section (with floppy disk)]  
Location :  Microforms (Lamont) Microfiche W 4253

Contents: 
Watermarks (202 microfiches) Tracings (over 19,000). Largely Europe, especially Dutch
Drawings (66 microfiches); Technical drawings (16 microfiches). About 6500 drawings copied from early works, and original drawings of equipment preserved in museums, and of mill architecture.
Photos (237 microfiches) -- Photos. Index (25 microfiches). Photographs (about 15,000) of European mills).
Multilingual dictionary (78 microfiches) -- Index (44 microfiches).

Science & Society Picture Library offers over 50,000 images from the Science Museum (London), the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and the National Railway Museum.

Statistics

Paperboard industry statistics, 1932/41-1971. (Each issue covers a ten year period)
Location :  Baker Business Historical Collections -- Baker Old Class Serial RBM P214    (Library has 1952-1971)

The statistics of paper, 1947-1972. 
Location :  Baker Business Stacks -- Serials 0464500   (1964-72)

Merged and continued by:

Statistics of paper and paperboard, 11th ed. (1973)-18th (1980). 
Location :  Baker Business Stacks -- Serials 0464500

Continued by
Statistics of paper, paperboard and wood pulp, 1981- 
Location :  Baker Business Stamps Reading Room -- Latest edition in Reference: HD9824 .S83
Location :  Baker Business Stacks -- Serials 7780950 [Library collects every 3rd edition, 1985-] 

A list of periodical directories with subject access and/or circulation statistics is available.

Bibliographies

Bibliography of paper making and United States patents on paper making and related subjects (title varies), 1931- 
Location:  Widener Chem 8204.23.5 (1936-1937; 1938-1939,1941; 1942-1943)

 
Previously issued annually in the:
Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Technical Association papers, 1920-
Widener  | Harvard Depository  |  Chem 8205.3 F  (1918-1948) see Hollis # 004872622 for availability information.

Bibliography of pulp and paper making 1900-1928, by C. J. West. NY: Published for Technical Assn. of the Pulp and Paper Industry by Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc., 1929, 982 p.
Baker Business  |  Historical Collections -- Baker Old Class    |  RBK.1 W51

Information sources on the pulp and paper industry / United Nations Industrial Development Organization. NY: United Nations, 1974, 92 p. (UNIDO guides to information sources; no. 11)
Baker Business  |  Stacks -- LC Books    |  Z7914.P2 U537 1974 
Documents (Lamont)  |  UN 179.935 no.11

Internationale Bibliographie zur Papiergeschichte (IBP): Berichtszeit: bis einschliesslich Erscheinungsjahr 1996 / Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Bücherei Leipzig ; [ed. by F. Schmidt und E. Sobek]. München: K.G. Saur, 2003. 4 v.
Widener | WID-LC | TS1090 .I57 2003x

Reading list on papermaking materials, by C. J. West. NY, 1921, 170 p.
Botany Econ. Botany  |  45

Permanence and durability of paper. An annotated bibliography of the technical literature from 1885 A.D. to 1939 A.D., by M. S. Kantrowitz, E. W. Spencer, and R. H. Simmons. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1940. 114 p.
Botany Econ. Botany | 45
Widener | Chem 8204.11
Widener | B 6570.14 vol.22

Secondary Sources

Journal Articles

America: History and Life

Historical Abstracts

Royal Historical Society bibliography is a comprehensive bibliography of books and periodical articles on British history.

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

For a search guide and other indexes, consult the Widener Library Research Guide Finding Periodical Articles on the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

Websites

Paper

British Association of Paper Historians

Friends of Dard Hunter

International Association of Paper Historians

Paper Industry International Hall of Fame

Robert C. Williams Paper Museum

Links to papermaking sites

Book History

Bibliographical Society of America

Includes:
BibSite (a means for scholars to provide public access to accumulated bibliographical research materials that may be useful to other researchers)

Bibliography on the web

Internetquellen zu Handschriften: Handschriften, Inkunabeln,
Nachlasse, Alte Drucke

Rare Books on the Web: A List of Resources

Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History

Resources for the History of Books and Printing

SHARP Web: The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

Research Society for American Periodicals

Their webpage offers links to digitized periodicals.

Finding Biographical Sources

Biographical information may be found in a variety of sources depending largely of the level of prominence of the person involved. Very famous scientists may have full biographies in HOLLIS. Somewhat less well-known persons (as well as the very famous) can be found in the many biographical dictionaries. There are indexes to the thousands of biographical dictionaries.

Biographical Dictionaries

American National Biography is the standard American source for biographies of major figures. Can do searches of occupations and limit by date.

Dictionary of scientific biography and New Dictionary of Scientific Biography offer biographical sketches on deceased scientists, including excellent lists of primary and secondary literature. Volume 16 includes a general index and a list of scientists by field. Volumes 17 & 18 are supplements containing scientists left out of the main series and those dying between 1970 and 1981. New Dictionary of Scientific Biography contains new articles about scientists dying after 1950 and earlier figures omitted from the original Dictionary together with articles updating entries in the original. Unlike the original, psychology and anthropology are covered, with some sociology and economics. For more recent sources (post-1975) use History of Science, Technology and Medicine. For new primary works (new editions, etc.) put your person in the author field. For new secondary works, put your person in the Subject field.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the standard British source for biographies of major figures. Can do searches of occupations and limit by date: Advanced Search Options: People Search.

Biographical Indexes

Biography Resource Center offers full text but much less comprehensive than the following two sources.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes numerous English-language biographical works. Look these up in HOLLIS.

World Biographical Information System (Saur)
LOCATION: Widener: Reference Room

Includes the full text of thousands of biographical dictionaries on microfiche. The Saur collection is worldwide in scope and includes dictionaries dating from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries in many languages. For each country or region, biographies are arranged alphabetically on microfiches.

Most of the national/regional archives are indexed in the World Biographical Information System Index in Harvard Libraries. For several archives, printed indexes are available in the Reference Room. Several archives are unindexed, and the microfiches themselves must be searched. A more detailed description of the Saur World Biographical Information System is available.

Reference Sources

Books with call numbers Widener | RR are in the Loker Reading Room (2nd floor).

A dictionary of book history, by John Feather. London: Croom Helm, 1986, 278 p.
Widener  |  RR83.4

Encyclopedia of the book, by Geoffrey Ashall Glaister. 2nd ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 1996, 551 p.
Andover-Harv. Theol  |  Ref.    |  Z118 .G55 1996 
Fine Arts  |  Reading Room    |  RFA1864.33
Widener  |  RR 83.7

Dictionary and encyclopædia of paper and paper-making: with equivalents of the technical terms in French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish & Swedish, by E.J. Labarre. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1952, 488 p.
Houghton  |  Reading Room    |  HRR 190.6 "Reprint 1969."
Widener  |  WID-LC    |  TS1085 .L3 1952x 

Supplement by E. G. Loeber, 1967, 104 p.
Widener  |  WID-LC    |  TS1085 .L3 1952x, Suppl.

A history of book publishing in the United States, by John Tebbel. NY: R. R. Bowker Co., 1972-1981. 4 v.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | Z473 .T42
Baker Business | Historical Collections -- Reference | Z473 .T42
Baker Business | Stacks -- LC Books | Z473 .T42
Widener | RR 101.16

An introduction to bibliography for literary students, by Ronald B. McKerrow. 2nd impression with corrections. Oxford; NY: Clarendon Press, 1928, 359 p.
Houghton  |  *AC9.B6407.Zz928m
Widener  |  RR 85.2
Widener  |  B 69.13.4
Widener  |  WID-LC    |  Z1001 .M16 1928x

Newspapers, a reference guide, by Richard A. Schwarzlose. NY: Greenwood Press, 1987, 417 p.
Lamont | REFERENCE | PN4855.Z99 .S39x 1987
Widener | WID-LC | PN4855.Z99 S39 x, 1987

Victorian periodicals: a guide to research, by Scott Bennett et al., ed. by J. Don Vann and R. T. VanArsdel. NY: Modern Language Association of America, 1978-1989. 2 v.
Theatre Collection | HTC-LC | PN5124.P4 V5
Widener | RR655.313

Victorian periodicals and Victorian society, ed. by J. Don Vann and R. T. VanArsdel. Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Press, 1994, 370 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN5124.P4 V48 1994bx

 

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When You Have a Citation to an Article

When you have a citation to a magazine, journal or newspaper article, either from a bibliography or from a Harvard Libraries e-resource such as ASP, look for the full text of the article by following these instructions:

  • If you're in a Harvard Libraries e-resource and see a Find it at Harvard button, click on it. A new screen will open that provides a link to an electronic version of your article, if available. If there is no link to an electronic version of your article then follow the link to the HOLLIS Catalog, which will show you which Harvard libraries own a paper copy (see Locating Journals for instructions on how to locate the paper copy in a library).
  • If you're not in a Harvard Libraries e-resource (if, for example, you found your citation in the bibliography of a work you consulted), or if you're in a Harvard Libraries e-resource but don't see a Find it at Harvard button, you'll have to take a few extra steps to get the article you need:
    1. Open a new browser window and go to the "Find it @ Harvard" Citation Linker in the e-research section of the Harvard Libraries site.
    2. Enter the article's citation information (e.g. journal title, date, volume number, etc.), then click on Find it at Harvard.
    3. A new screen will open that provides a link to an electronic version of your article, if available. If there is no link to an electronic version of your article then follow the link to the HOLLIS Catalog, which will show you which Harvard libraries own a paper copy (see Locating Journals for instructions on how to locate the paper copy in a library).

If the "Find it @ Harvard" Citation Linker does not bring you to either an electronic version of your article or a HOLLIS Catalog record, then:

1. Go to the Harvard Libraries site and click on hollis catalog in the upper left-hand corner.
2. Once you're in HOLLIS, click on "Journals" in the menu at the top of the screen.
3. Search for the title of the journal in which the article appeared:

a) In the "Browse an Alphabetical List" menu, click on "Journal title beginning with..."
b) Type the title of the journal in the search window, then click on the "Browse" button.
c) Select the matching title in the Browse List.
d) If more than one title is displayed, select the one that is the closest match. The record for that title will show you which Harvard libraries own paper copies of the journal you need.
e) See Locating Journals for instructions on how to locate the paper copy in a library.

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Locating Journals and Books in the Libraries

Locating Journals

Once you've found a record in HOLLIS for a journal that you want to look at, follow these steps:

1) Click on "Holdings" to find out if the library owns the issue you need.
2) Back on the Full View of the record in HOLLIS, click on the More info icon to find out where the library is located and what its hours are.
3) Determine where in the library your journal is shelved. At most libraries, recent issues (published in the past year or so) are shelved separately from older issues.

  • At Lamont: Recent issues can be found in the Reference Room on the 3rd floor, and older issues are shelved by title on the 2nd floor.
  • At Widener: Recent issues can be found in the Periodicals Reading Room on the 1st floor, and older are shelved by call number in the Stacks. So, be sure to note the call number for journals at Widener. The Widener Call Number Location Chart is available online.

4) If you have any questions, ask for help at a reference desk.

Locating Books

Once you've found a record in HOLLIS for a book that you want to look at, follow these steps:

1) Click on the "Availability" link to make sure the book is "Not checked out." (If the book is checked out, you can recall it by clicking on the "Request" link. The person who has the book will be asked to return in within a week or so.)
2) Back on the Full View of the record, click on the More info icon to find out where the library is located and what its hours are.
3) Write down (or print out, or email) the call number. The call number follows the More info icon on the Full View of the record.
4) Once you're in the library, look for a chart that shows you where each call number is shelved. (The Widener Call Number Location Chart is available online.)
5) If you have any questions, ask for help at a reference desk.

If a book is at the Harvard Depository, hit Availability, then Request. Fill in your Harvard ID number and PIN. On the next screen hit Send. The item will be available by 3:00 the next business (M-F) day at the Circulation Desk (In-Library Use books in the Phillips Reading Room up the stairs from the Circulation Room).

If there is no call number, merely an Availability link, hit that. It usually says Ordered Received or On Order. To request these, open another window and go to http://hcl.harvard.edu. Open the Ordered or Uncataloged Materials link and fill out the form. The HOLLIS Number is at the bottom of the HOLLIS record.
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Evaluating Websites

The World Wide Web offers a wonderful variety of resources, many of which are not available elsewhere. Searching the web can be a cumbersome process, however, and some sites are more worthy of your trust than others. Evaluating Web Sites will give you simple and straightforward advice on how to determine the quality and legitimacy of information found on the World Wide Web.

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Questions?

Want more tips and advice on your research? Schedule a follow-up consultation!

Fred Burchsted, Widener Library Research Services, 617-495-4093, e-mail

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