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NAHSTE (Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment) Project website launch

• Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:00:51 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: NAHSTE (Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment) Project website launch
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:25:17 +0100
From: Andrew Thomson <thomsona@SRV4.LIB.ED.AC.UK>
Subject: NAHSTE Project website launch
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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 Dobson  
(dobsons@srv4.lib.ed.ac.uk) if you have any comments or questions. 

Apologies for cross-posting

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
Assistant Archivist
RSLP NAHSTE Project 
Department of Archives
Special Collections Division
Edinburgh University Library
The University of Edinburgh
George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LJ

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Tel: 0131-6511719
Email: thomsona@srv4.lib.ed.ac.uk
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