Guide to Online Primary Sources: Sciences

A digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic in the United States.

Shows bee behaviors and methods used to study bee behaviors. 2005-2014

"An effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites."

Images of more than 20,000 objects dating from about 1400 to the present. A broad range of scientific disciplines are represented, including astronomy, navigation, horology, surveying, geology, calculating, physics, biology, medicine, psychology, electricity, and communication.

Includes publications, manuscripts, private papers, and supplementary works.

Makes available more than 500,000 pages of books, serials, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other materials that offer historical perspectives on diseases and epidemics.

Searchable texts of more than 6000 letters written by Charles Darwin and information about 9000 more, as well as essays and other contextual material.

Provides links to primary source collections in: Biology & Natural History, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering & Technology, Environment/Forestry/ Agriculture, Medicine, Physics, and General STEM.

Full text and page images of books published in English from 1475-1700. Search by subject, title, author. Will eventually include more than 125,000 books.

Lectures in Electrical and Computer Engineering recorded in 1991 and 1992 at UC San Diego.

With nearly 70,000 images, this collection of portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters and graphic art illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine from the 15th to the 21st century.

Extensive collection of documents from ancient to modern times.

Most of these letters were sent and received by Muir, although the collection also includes some correspondence of selected family members and colleagues. Muir’s correspondence offers a unique first-hand perspective on his thoughts and experiences, as well as those of his correspondents, which include many notable figures in scientific, literary, and political circles of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

These research files document experiments on bacterial populations performed jointly by Szilard and Novick at the Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics, University of Chicago. (1948-1964)

A selection of documents, photos, and audio-visual materials of the nuclear physicist and inventor Leo Szilard. (1898-1998)

Collection of translations from 17th century mathematical books and papers.

Currently includes four distinct collections: Medicine in the Americas, Cholera Online, The Public Health Film Goes to War, and Tropical Disease Motion Pictures. Material dates back to 1541.

A selection of Newton's manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s.

Facsimiles, transcriptions, and translations of documents pertaining to the September 1941 meeting of Bohr and Heisenberg. Also contains links to annual reports, photographs and more.

Free access to nearly 70,000 historical scientific articles published more than 70 years ago (and dating to 1665). "Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton's first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin's celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment. Readers willing to delve a little deeper may find some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution."

Documents the history, formation, and evolution of the companies that formed the San Diego region's high-tech cluster, beginning in 1965.

This project was the result of an ongoing effort by the Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics, leading to development of the Enzo simulation software capable of a seven-level adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmology simulation. (2005-2012)

Provides bee-related teaching exercises and information for instructors of students ranging from junior high school through college. 2005-2013

Free public access to a wide range of significant resources on water in the Western United States. Available resources include classic water literature, legal transcripts, maps, reports, personal papers, water project records, photographs, audio recordings, videos, and other material.

Collection of manuscripts, books and images. Use limiters in left column to focus search on a specific geography, date range or topic. Also offers a keyword search box at top of page.