Science Studies and Complexity Theory

All of the following sites have been evaluated and included on the basis of their scholarly and professional content. The list is a work in progress and will be expanded and developed over the next few months. If you know of sites or web resources you think should be included, please email me with the complete URL and a brief annotation.

• The WWW virtual library for Science and Technology Studies . This site at the University of Austraila, Melbourne offers an extensive listing and searchable database. Many sites are rated and ranked (includes a good link to "race and science studies," but is weak in the area of gender and feminist studies.)
• Yahoo's links and search page for Science and Technology Studies
• Society for Literature and Science
• 4S Society for Social Studies of Science . Committed to promoting research across "the boundaries that separate disciplines," and across "the national boundaries that separate scholars." This society is especially concerned with developing feminist and cultural studies approaches to science studies
• The History of Science Society
• The History of Science Society's "Reading the History of Western Science" bibliography
• Georgia Tech's program in Literature, Communication and Culture
• Science Studies at Edinburgh (Scotland). A pioneer in the field.
• Centre for Innovation Studies at the University of East London. An interesting interdisciplinary academic unit that combines research with outreach programs. Home of the @thene project: improving access to technology and studies of technology for minorties and lower-income populations. (Their web page is currently under re-construction, but this is a site worth going back to; involved in a new and methodologically innovative approach to interdisciplinary education)
• The Museum of the History of Science at Oxford (UK)
• The Max Planck Center for Science Studies in Berlin, Germany. I have the link converted to English, but the site text is available in German as well.
• University of California, San Diego's Science Studies program offers this excellent resource for STS links
• Configurations is an established journal that explores the connections between literature and science
• The University of Chicago has an outstanding interdisciplinary program in history, society and science: Fishbein Center
• The Cohn Institute for History and Ideas in Science, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Trinity University in Dublin, Ireland offers one the most extensive databases on the history of mathematics , including access to many early editions and manuscripts of mathematical treatises: Leibniz, Newton, among others.
• The Ada Project is a site at Yale university dedicated to issues related to women in science
• Again, out of the University of California, San Diego: Science and Culture
• The Voice of the Shuttle has an extensive resource page for links to critical studies of science
• Science Studies general reference link
• This journal specializes in Spanish and Latin American influence on/history/critiques of science: Antilia . This journal is notable for its application of different theoretical approaches to science studies, including the combination of "baroque" and complexity theories. Available in Spanish and English.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers a site devoted to race and science (the *only* one in existence, as far as I know)
• This is a site that features interactive multimedia links to various scientific demonstrations (this is a 'noisy' site, but has some interesting links; ones good for educational purposes -- however, it's in *German* only).
• A new journal out of Rutgers University, Event Horizon , explore sconnections between science and the humanities (encourages submissions from those schooled in multiple disciplinary methodologies. Inaugural issue: Spring 1999)
• A new journal: Perspectives on Science.
• The oldest and most well-established journal on the history of science: Isis (since 1912)
• Osiris is a companion journal to Isis. This publication specializes in cultural influences on science (vol.12, 1997 is noteworthy: an entire issue devoted to "Women, Gender, and Science."
• Science in Context a journal on science from the standpoint of comparative epistemology and interdisciplinarity (has featured special issues on Jewish philosophy and science).
• The British Society for the History of Science
• East Asian History of Science Library; from the Needham institute in Cambridge (This collection offers a link to "Chinese civilization" and science as well).
• The Royal Society (UK)
• Academy of the Science of the Czech Republic (committed to science studies in an international context. Preservation of Bohemian and Moravian texts -- several archives. Most of the links/documents are Czech w/out translation)
• Wissenschaftshistorische : the main WWW clearing house for all aspects of science studies in Germany (incredibly thorough; most links in German only)
• The CalTech Archives (California Institute of Technology; 1 million records to date)
• Biographies of 16th and 17th -century members of the scientific community (631 entries; concise and in-depth information. Great resource *unless* you're doing research on women in the scientific/philosophic community of the time. Part of the Galileo Project
• Francis Steen's Cog web at UCSB: cognitive science and cultural studies.

Chaos/Complexity/Non-linearity

• Searchable bibliographic database on non-linearity (includes some purely scientific and mathematical references as well, by Andreas Schamanek). Quite extensive; texts in multiple languages
• A resource for complexity studies in general. Bruce Edmond's home page.
• Chaos Studies at the University of Maryland
• Niklas Luhmann Sites
• Bill Huitt's links page for chaos, systems theory and "fuzzy logic". Fairly extensive and up-dated.

Gender and Science (generally speaking, this area of specialization is woefully under-represented on the WWW. The following are links that lead to some collections that address gender and science, but very few that feature such material exclusively. The sites and search engines listed below are some of the best for feminist research overall. I hope eventually to develop a far more extensive and narrow research resource for this subheading).

• A hyperlink to Donna Haraway
• A link to issues/bibliographies concerning women and biology (in German only)
• Women and science (includes an *extensive* guide to Listservs that focus on women and science -- personal home page -- Joan Korenman)
• Women's Studies and science on the Web (University of Maryland WS program)
• An international clearing house for women/feminist issues: Aviva
• Another extensive general listing of Feminist Sites
• Gender and Technology Issues
• Gender Studies via Yahoo.
• From MIT, a page devoted to gender/women and science/technology studies
• The project, "Gender and Science: A Two-Way Street". Devoted to developing feminist science studies curriculum.
• The Hypatia Institute
• From CalTech, Patricia Schwartz's page on Gender and Science (really worth checking out)
• The UCI Critical Theory Archives: Evelyn Fox Keller

MISC (other)

• Marxism and Science
• The most extensive resource I've encountered on Marxism/post-marxism

This site is updated regularly. New links will be added periodically.

If you have a link/site/page to contribute to this project, please send me the URL and a brief abstract: Email Jen Boyle