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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine*
Contains records describing journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, medicine and allied historical fields. Citations reflect the contents of more than 1,000 journals, and partial contents of several hundred more.

The following online indexes also provide means to search the scholarship on the history of science. Both are open access initiatives, meaning they are free to use for students and scholars around the world. To locate discovered resources, copy and paste the title into the search box on the FSU Libraries homepage.

IsisCB Explore
A research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science. The IsisCB currently contains 40 years of citation data from 1974 to 2014.

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IsisCB is an open source project, currently available in beta but still under development. The scope of indexing is expected to expand to a wider date range, and to include additional sources of citations.
World History of Science Online
The WHSO project classifies and indexes online resources in the field of the History of Science and Technology of scholarly merit and provides brief descriptions of these resources.

PhilPapers
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index of philosophy books and articles. PhilPapers offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums.
Philosopher's Index*
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals in the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic and metaphysics. It is also a rich source of material on the philosophy of various disciplines, such as education, history, law, religion and science.

Subject coverage
Aesthetics
Axiology
Epistemology
Ethics
Logic
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
Philosophical Anthropology
Philosophy of Education
Philosophy of History
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Science
Political Philosophy
Social Philosophy