History of Science, Technology & Medicine

Collection overview

This is primarily a collection of modern monographs and periodicals

Subjects include:

Agricultural history
Industrial history
History and philosophy of science
Technology
Medicine
Biographies of scientists

Collection strengths include much early material from some of the Library’s special collections

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Collection location

Most books are located on the 7th floor
All items available on open access will display the location HISTORY OF SCIENCE, with the classmark prefix 3 eg HISTORY OF SCIENCE 7th floor (3) AK3G Wol
Most periodicals are located on the periodicals open shelves (PS) on the 5th floor
Recent issues of periodicals are on display bays in the Periodicals Room – 4th floor. For more information on finding journals, see our journals resources page
Some items are held in the closed access stacks. These will display the location Stack Service. Please request at the Stack Service desk on the 4th floor
To locate individual titles use the online catalogue

Related collections

Area collections of Latin American Studies and United States Studies
British Government Publications
Special Collections and Archives – including the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature, De Morgan Library, Durning Lawrence Library and Sterling Library
Dictionaries and classical reference works in the Information Centre, 4th floor

Classmarks for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

All classmarks in this collection have a numerical prefix of 3 eg HISTORY OF SCIENCE 7th floor (3) AK4 FAR

Subjects include:

Agriculture	UA
Biology	E
Botany	F
Chemistry	C
Engineering	U
Science, general	A
Medicine	HM
Philosophy of Science	AKA
Physics, general	B
Technology	UV
Zoology	G

For a more detailed explanation of classmarks see the Library's leaflet 'A guide to the classification scheme'.

Other libraries

For more information about holdings in other academic libraries in the London area, please consult the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries website: www.m25lib.ac.uk. Of particular interest are the British Library and the libraries of the Warburg Institute and the Wellcome Institute. For elsewhere in the UK, consult the Consortium of University and Research Libraries catalogue: www.copac.ac.uk.