History of science and technology: Archival Resources
In-Person Archival Resources
Listed below are detailed instructions on how to locate specific archival collections at Stanford Library. Below that, there are several examples of both physical and digital archival collections.
Search for Archival Collections
1. Visit SearchWorks.
2. Enter a search term (e.g., the name of a company, technology, or individual) into the search box.
3. A results list will show all items from anywhere in the library that matches your term.
4. Click on resource type > Archive/Manuscript in the left column to limit your results to archival collections.
5. Click on a title in the search results to see more information about the collection.
Request Materials for Reading Room Access
All materials in the archive can only be accessed in the Stanford Special Collections reading room. You can request materials to be sent to the reading room directly from the SearchWorks record. You can request up to five boxes per day and requests must be completed at least two full business days in advance of your visit. See "Using our Collections" webpage for full details.
Online Archival Collections
Please note that these links will take you to selected collections, not all of which are held by the Stanford Libraries.
- Online Archive of CaliforniaThis is a link to a list of finding aids for manuscripts and archival materials in astronomy, biochemistry, biological sciences, civil and electrical engineering, classical and high-energy physics, computer science, industrial revolutions and heavy industry, military science, photography, and telecommunications.
*OAC is a source for finding aids throughout California and mention that you can find collections in Ca. and at Stanford - CryptomeDocuments on cryptography, dual-use technologies, national security and counter-intelligence. It also includes approx. 25,000 pages, updated regularly, of counter-intelligence dossiers declassified by the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, dating from 1945 forward. Composed of 70,000 files on 4 disks (~14GB) for the 15.5-year period from June 1996 to January 2012. Archives include files of cryptome.org, jya.com, cartome.org, eyeball-series.org and iraq-kill-maim.org.
- DOE R&D AccomplishmentsDOE R&D Accomplishments is a central forum for information about the outcomes of past DOE R&D. An R&D accomplishment is the outcome of past DOE or predecessor research whose benefits are being realized now. The core of DOE R&D Accomplishments is the Database, which contains searchable documents and bibliographic citations that report accomplishments from DOE, DOE contractor facilities, and DOE predecessors.
- Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineA comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. The full collection includes nearly 180,000 titles and more than 33,000,000 pages of searchable material.
- John McCarthy Papers, 1951-2008Correspondence, memos, reports, course materials, newsletters, articles, reprints, computer manuals, and other materials pertaining to McCarthy's research and his teaching at Stanford and MIT. Correspondents include Forest Baskett, Donald Knuth, Serge Lang, Joshua Lederberg, Douglas Lenat, Donald Michie, Hans Moravec, Zohar Manna, Aaron Sloman, and Masahiko Sato. Also included are correspondence, reprints, programs, notes, and articles from his work with Russian computer scientists, 1958-78.
- Marc Levoy Papers, 2002-2015Marc Levoy is the VMware Founders Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Emeritus. He received a Bachelor's and Master's in Architecture from Cornell University in 1976 and 1978, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. In the 1970's Levoy worked on computer animation, developing a cartoon animation system that was used by Hanna-Barbera Productions to make The Flintstones, Scooby Doo, and other shows. In the 1980's Levoy worked on volume rendering, a technique for displaying three-dimensional functions such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) data. In the 1990's he worked on 3D laser scanning, culminating in the Digital Michelangelo Project, in which he and his students spent a year in Italy digitizing the statues of Michelangelo. In the 2000's he worked on computational photography and microscopy, including light field imaging as commercialized by Lytro and other companies. At Stanford he taught computer graphics and the science of art, and digital photography. Outside of academia, Levoy co-designed the Google book scanner, launched Google's Street View project, and currently leads a team in Google Research that has worked on Project Glass and the Nexus 6 HDR+ mode. Awards: Charles Goodwin Sands Medal for best undergraduate thesis (1976), National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (1991), ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award (1996), ACM Fellow (2007). In 2014, Levoy retired from Stanford to lead a team at Google. His team is in Google Research, and works broadly on cameras and photography. One of their projects was computational photography for Glass. More recent projects include HDR+ mode on the Nexus 6 and a more flexible application programming interface (API) and hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for the cameras on Android devices.
- Medic@ Bibliothèque NumériqueCollection of ancient and medieval texts, dictionaries, periodicals, theses etc. from the 18th and 19th centuries, works on important figures in the history of medicine, medical specialties such as alchemy, animal magnetism, etc.
- Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineA multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century; will be comprised of numerous collections to be released over many years, including a variety of material types--monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more--in one cross-searchable location.
- SciTech ConnectSciTech Connect is a portal to free, publicly-available DOE-sponsored R&D results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia and data information. SciTech Connect is a consolidation of two core DOE search engines, the Information Bridge and the Energy Citations Database. SciTech Connect incorporates all of the R&D information from these two products into one search interface. SciTech Connect was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to increase access to science, technology, and engineering research information from DOE and its predecessor agencies.
- Trail Technical Report Archive & Image LibraryThe Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) is an initiative of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) -- in which Stanford Libraries is participating -- to identify, digitize, archive, and provide access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. Technical reports communicate research progress in technology and science; they deliver information for technical development to industry and research institutions contributing to the continued growth of science and technology. These highly detailed reports contain valuable information serving specialized audiences of researchers. While availability to more recent technical report literature has greatly improved with Internet access via the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) legacy technical report documents remain elusive to researchers. Most large research libraries across the country have sizeable collections of federally funded technical research reports frequently a million or more ranging from several pages to several hundred pages. An example of some report series digitized include: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Civil Effects Test Operations (AEC-CEX), U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Health and Safety Laboratory, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Radiation Instruments Branch, U.S. National Bureau of Standards, Monographs, U.S. Bureau of Mines Bulletin.
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