**Apologies for cross-posting**
Below are details of the NAHSTE (Navigational Aids for the History
of Science, Technology and the Environment) Archive Project,
which may be of interest. The initial web pages for the Project are
now up and running, and the URL is:
http://www.nahste.ac.uk
Please feel free to email either myself or Sarah Higgins
([log in to unmask]) if you have any comments or
questions.
Andrew Thomson
Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and
the Environment (NAHSTE)
NAHSTE is part of the Research Support Libraries Programme,
which brings together both traditional and new forms of access to
library and archival information, with specific reference to support
for research. The Programme is intended to meet the need for
collaboration amongst UK Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in the
use of the research infrastructure.
Concentrating on two main themes within the broader history of
science heading - the history of technology and especially the
history of the environment, the project will open up a variety of
outstanding collections of archives, manuscripts and journals which
are indisdensable to an understanding of the central scientific
themes. The main collections to be targeted are held by the three
collaborating HEI: University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University
and University of Glasgow, but the project will aid researchers still
further by including cross-linkages to the wider historical record of
the Scottish scientific community held by the non-HEI partners.
The aim of the project is to set up a series of on-line resources
describing the holdings to recognised international standards, with
the capability to perform seamless searching of manuscripts and
archives across the three collaborating HEI. The on-line resources
will include a subject-based, chronological navigational aid.
Andrew Thomson
RSLP-NAHSTE Project Archivist
Special Collections
Edinburgh University Library
University of Edinburgh
George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LJ
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Tel: 0131-651 1719
http://www.nahste.ac.uk
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