Consortium Special Collections Search Hub
See detailed information about member institutions and their collections. Select a member institution below to visit its main collections or library page.
- American Institute of Physics
- American Philosophical Society
- Brown University
- California Institute of Technology
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia
- Columbia University
- Drexel University
- Duke University
- Hagley Museum and Library
- Harvard University
- History of Science Society
- Huntington Library
- Johns Hopkins University
- Library of Congress
- Linda Hall Library
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- McGill University
- National Library of Medicine
- New York Academy of Medicine
- Newberry Library
- Princeton University
- Rockefeller Archive Center
- Science History Institute
- Smithsonian Institution
- United States Naval Observatory
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Kansas
- University of Maryland-College Park
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Sydney
- University of Toronto
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wagner Free Institute of Science
- Wellcome Collection
- Yale University
We have compiled a list of digital collections and resources from our member instittutions. We will continue to update this list as we receive more information.
California Institute of Technology
Major research collections available remotely:
- George Ellery Hale Papers: https://digital.archives.caltech.edu/hale
- Donald A. Glaser Papers: http://glaser.library.caltech.
edu - Paul B. MacCready Papers: http://maccready.library.caltech.edu
- Caltech Archives Oral History Project: http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu
Reference inquiries: archives@caltech.edu
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Digital image library: https://www.cppdigitallibrary.org/
S. Weir Mitchell papers: https://mitchell.cppdigitallibrary.org/s/mitchell/page/intro
The College of Physicians is a partner with the Medical Heritage Library, which has a significant collection of digitzed material: http://www.medicalheritage.org/search-2/
Duke University
Duke Digital Collections: https://
Online Exhibits: https://library.
Instruction/Digital Activities & Assignments: https://library.
Contact for research assistance: AskRL@duke.edu
Hagley Museum and Library
Finding aids: https://findingaids.hagley.org/xtf/
Digital archives: https://digital.hagley.org/
Digital exhibits: https://www.hagley.org/research/digital-exhibits
Oral history collections: https://digital.hagley.org/oralhistory?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=1e4410717a82cc925873&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0
Newsletter: https://www.hagley.org/research/research-news-events/news/all-news
Scholars' projects: https://www.hagley.org/research/news/scholar-projects
Stories from the Stacks podcast: https://www.hagley.org/research/programs/stories-stacks
Millrace podcast: https://www.hagley.org/millrace
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQPQhnwuLEyoJ1LanZi2cA
Harvard University
Harvard Digital Collections: Linking to over 6 million items from Harvard’s collections.
Curiosity: curated guides to selected digitized collections at Harvard.
Colonial North America project: link to approximately 650,000 digitized pages related to 17th and 18th century North American holdings at Harvard.
Biodiversity Heritage Library, with a direct link to the Botany Libraries’ contributions and the Ernst Mayr (Museum of Comparative Zoology) Library’s contributions to the BHL.
Huntington Library
Research questions may be submitted to reference@huntington.org
Linda Hall Library
The Linda Hall Library's digital collections provide access to hundreds of rare books and periodicals exploring the history of science and technology from the 15th century to the present. Astronomy, mathematics, earth sciences, and natural history are all well-represented in the Library's online holdings. Historians of engineering will also find much to explore in the Library's collection of 19th century railroad journals and the A.B. Nichols Panama Canal Collection. The Library adds new items to its digital collections on a regular basis. Noteworthy recent additions include Samuel Morse’s journal, Thomas Edison’s instructions to operate an electric power plant, and an article on radioactivity by Marie Curie annotated in her own hand.
To begin reviewing the Linda Hall Library’s digital collections, visit http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/. Please note that the Library is currently investing in a new content management system and would welcome visitor feedback on the organization of its online resources. For further information, email the Library’s Vice President for Research and Scholarship, Benjamin Gross (grossb@lindahall.org).
New York Academy of Medicine
Stay connected and access resources: https://www.nyam.org/library/stay-connected-update-resources-nyam-library/
Newberry Library
Digital resources: http://www.newberry.org/digital-newberry
Online collection: http://digcoll.newberry.org/#/
Contact a librarian: https://www.newberry.org/contact-librarian
Rockefeller Archive Center
Archival material is available to all researchers through DIMES (dimes.rockarch.org), RAC's online finding aid system. When browsing finding aids, digitized materials will appear with a camera icon. To a general search for digitized materials in DIMES, go to: https://dimes.rockarch.org/xtf/search
Significant online collections include:
- A large portion of the Rockefeller Foundation officer diaries have been digitized (in DIMES, these finding aids appear, arranged alphabetically by officer's last name as FA391, FA392, FA393, FA394.)
- The vast majority of records of the Foundation for Child Development (1898-1998) have been digitized. Identified in DIMES as FA019.
- The RAC created a digital history website for the centennial of the Rockefeller Foundation. It includes essays, photographs and extensive digitized documents from RAC. Available online at https://rockfound.rockarch.org/.
- The RAC recently launched RE:source, RAC's storytelling platform, highlighting the history of philanthropy through RAC's collection. Available online at: https://resource.rockarch.org/.
RAC has a very extensive set of research reports submitted by RAC research stipend awardees, providing broad insight into RAC collections and their historic themes. Available online at: http://rockarch.issuelab.org/?coverage=&author=&funder=&publisher=&wikitopic_categories=&keywords=&pubdate_start_year=1&pubdate_end_year=1&sort=&categories=
With specific questions, researchers should feel free to contact Lee R. Hiltzik, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, who serves as RAC's coordinator with the Consortium. Lee can be reached at: lhiltzik@rockarch.org
For general questions about archival access and use, researchers should consult https://rockarch.org/collections/access-and-request-materials/
University of Oklahoma
Digital collection: https://repository.ou.edu/
History of Science Portrait Collection: https://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/LPC
Twitter: Search@OU_Libraries & @PalmeriJoAnn
Contact for research questions: JoAnn Palmeri (palmerij@ou.edu) Research Coordinator & Librarian, History of Science Collections, OU Libraries
Yale University
Online resources for history of medicine research: https://guides.library.yale.edu/histmedonline
Digital collections: https://library.medicine.yale.edu/digital
Contact for research questions: Melissa Grafe, melissa.grafe@yale.edu
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University of Illinois Receives NEH Grant to Amplify Access to the Archives of Women Scientists
October 4, 2024
The University of Illinois Library has received a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create digital resources and the foundation for a network of partners that amplifies access to the digitized archives of women scientists, focusing initially on the domestic science movement.
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Research Fellowships from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center
September 11, 2024
Applications are due October 15, 2024.
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Elizabeth Coates Paschall Receipt Book Digitized
August 19, 2024
The book is available in partnership with the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.
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Brown University Joins the Consortium
June 5, 2024
We are delighted to welcome Brown as the Consortium's newest member.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched HADES (Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources)
January 16, 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s HADES (Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources) offers advertisements from health sciences journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, hospital management, laboratory management, and the allied health sciences from 1923 to 2007.