Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1995)

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Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1995) The following compilation is the thirty-fourth annual bibliogra­ phy of current publications in the history of technology. Previous bibliographies in this series have appeared in Technology and Culture since 1964. The reader is also referred to the fifth publication of the SHOT Monograph Series, Eugene S. Fergusons Bibliography of the History ofTechnology (Cambridge, Mass.: SHOT and MIT Press, 1968). This year, the bibliography comprises roughly 2,800 citations, about average for the last few years. Improved coverage of Eastern European, Asian, and Latin American publications remains a desid­ eratum, and help in these areas from correspondents would be wel­ come. Institutions or individuals aware of a journal or publication series that has been neglected in recent years are encouraged to help me track down these elusive publications and ensure their cov­ erage in future bibliographies. Thanks are due to the Postal and Telecommunications Museum in Budapest (Postal es Tavkozlesi Muzeumi ) for providing the current issue and backfile to 1989 of its annual publication, the Ekvonyve, for indexing in this bibliography. The bibliography has been available to scholars in electronic form since March 1992 on the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) as part of the HST (History of Science and Technology) file. It provides on-line access to Current Bibliography in the History of Technology for the years 1987 through 1995 simultaneously, and it is possible to query it from your personal computer using a variety of indexes, assuming that you have a modem or access to the Internet. Members of the Society for the History ofTechnology now have free access to this database; for instructions, please consult the SHOT homepage (http://www.umich.edu/~shotac/SHOT/) on the World Wide Web. For more information on personal or institutional RLIN accounts, please contact the RLIN Information Center at 800537 -7546 (U.S. and Canada) or consult the homepage of the Re­ search Libraries Group (http://www.rlg.org). The Current Bibliogra­ phy of the History of Science and the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza are also available in the HST file, and it is planned that more bibliographic files in the history of science, technology, and medi-© 1997 by the Society for the History of Technology. All rights reserved. 0040-165X/97/38 1 2 Henry Lowood cine will be added to the file. Users of the HST file can obtain from me a copy of the working thesaurus for the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, which should prove useful in working with this database. I would like to thank the other contributors to the bibliography: Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Katalin Harkanyi, Patrick Harshbarger, Roger Launius, and Ian Winship. Readers willing to scan a selected set of journals or keep track of publications in one of the subfields of the history of technology should contact me, as additional contributors are welcome and needed. I also thank those who have sent me indi­ vidual publications, offprints, journal issues, or citations over the past year. This bibliography only can provide a comprehensive pic­ ture of published research in the history of technology if those who publish will take a bit of time to submit offprints or full citations to me at the History of Science and Technology Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004. If you are the editor or publisher of a new or specializedjournal, please write to me to make sure that the bibliography includes your publica­ tion. I welcome bibliographic information sent via electronic mail (lowood@leland.stanford.edu) or fax (650-725-1068). I would like to thank a few people who have contributed behind the scenes. Jennifer Lee and Christoph Lehner assisted with biblio­ graphic verification and data entry, as well asjournal scanning; their work was supported by the Ellen Poyet Endowment, which funds an assistantship in the history ofscience and technology in the Stanford University Libraries. I am also grateful to Joe Schultz of Technology and Culture for his editorial work and guidance and to Heidi Beck for copyediting the bibliography. Finally, I would like again to ex­ press my gratitude to the users of this bibliography, particularly those who have made an effort to...