Library information
Help and guides
User education sessions covering use of the Whipple Library, HPS-relevant electronic resources and HPS-relevant Cambridge special collections are given by the Librarian and other staff in Michaelmas Term. Details are well advertised beforehand on the departmental email list.
Library staff are also happy to provide one-to-one training in any aspect of HPS-related Library use to users of the Whipple Library. If you require such assistance please contact the Librarian to arrange a time.
Seminars on electronic resources in HPS
Whipple Pathfinders
Whipple Library guides to HPS-relevant online bibliographical and abstracting databases, designed to help you search the contents of scholarly journals, books, dissertations and other materials:
- 1: Philosopher's Index
- 2: Web of Science
- 3: History of Science, Technology and Medicine database
- 4: Historical Abstracts
- 5: Whipple journals: where they are indexed, and which of them are online
- 6: Finding books and journals
- 7: Guide to subject searching
- 8: What's on your reading list?
- 9: Journal abbreviations
- 10: Citations and bibliographies: Chicago style
- 11: Citations and bibliographies: Harvard style
- 12: Scopus
General Cambridge library guides
- Quick guide to using Newton
- Help with Newton
- How to manage your references
- Brief guide to reference management software
- Good academic practice and plagiarism
Guides to HPS-related library resources
- Guide to Classics resources
- Guide to History resources
- Cartographic resources
- Philosophy resources guide
- Guide to Political Sciences resources
- Guide to Social Sciences resources
Other guides
- Library resources in HPS (a subject guide to library resources in Cambridge and beyond)
- The University Library also runs many HPS-relevant courses relating to electronic resources and other information services. Details are advertised on the Whipple Library noticeboard and on the UL's Research Skills site, from which copies of course handouts can be downloaded. An RSS feed is also available.