Research tools

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Contents 1 Blog and social software searches 2 Directory searches 3 Full-text journal searches (publicly available) 4 Full-text journal searches (subscription required) 5 Primary Sources 6 Applications

[edit] Blog and social software searches

• CiteUlike.org search for "STS"
• Technorati search for "science and technology studies"

[edit] Directory searches

• DMOZ: Science and technology studies
• Voice of the Shuttle: Science, Technology, and Culture

[edit] Full-text journal searches (publicly available)

• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Review
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2001-present
• Journal of New Media and Culture
• First Monday
• Science Studies, 1998-present
• Technology Studies, 1996-2004 (defunct?)

• Engineering Village 2 1969-2005

[edit] Full-text journal searches (subscription required)

Note: You will probably need to access these from a subscribing institution's IP address in order to use them.

• Information Communication and Society, 1998-present
• History and Technology, 2002-present
• Metascience, 2003-present
• Perspectives on Science, 1998-present
• Public Understanding of Science, 1992-present
• Science as Culture, 2000-present
• Science and Public Policy, 1999-present
• Science in Context, 2001-present
• Science, Technology, and Human Values 1978-2001
• Science, Technology, and Human Values, 1999-present
• Social Epistemology, 1999-present
• Social Studies of Science, 1975-2001
• Social Studies of Science, 1999-present
• Technology and Culture, 1998-present
• Technology in Society, 1979-present

[edit] Primary Sources

• European Cultural Heritage Online portal for a wide variety of texts, artefacts, images, sound files and videos from different time periods, regions and disciplines

[edit] Applications

not ads, just things people use and what they use them for, sort of....

• Acrobat Pro, JSTOR gives us images, Acrobat pro turns it to searchable text(that process can be automated too)--Buridan
• Bookends, like Endnote, but works with Mellel--Buridan
• Copywrite, so you have this big, multi-chapter, perhaps dissertation-like project to write and don't want to use Mellel--Buridan
• Devonthink, sure there is no good reason to have over 10k pdfs but there is a good way to search them--Buridan
• JabRef, an open source bibliography manager especially for use with BibTeX; platform independent--vgXhc
• Mediawiki, it's not your mother's wiki--Buridan
• Novamind, like freemind, but not free and prettier(great for lecture notes)--Buridan
• Oblique Strategies, because there is no cure for thinking(downloadable versions exist for most os'es)--Buridan
• Tinderbox, I'm sure that if i figured out how to really use this effectively it would rock my writing world--Buridan
• Voodoopad, for people who really, really like wikis--Buridan
• SPIP - A publication system totally web-based, multilingual, open-source, free. Easy to use and easy configuration (supports PhP). Useful for making journals, websites. --Rigas

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