Catalogue of Scientific Papers

The second major installment of the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900 is now online and part of USC's subscription to Paratext's 19th Century Masterfile. It is hard to overestimate the importance of this resource for both scientific and humanistic research for patrons and scholars.

The files of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers now online via 19th Century Masterfile include over 450,000 citations to all manner of scientific inquiry during the 19th Century--from Darwin to Freud. CSP indexed 1,555 periodicals in numerous languages, and included the transactions of the European academies and other learned societies.

The Catalogue of Scientific Papers was described in Alice B. Kroeger's first edition of Guide to Reference Books (ALA 1902, and in every subsequent edition) as "a monumental index of first importance." The original author-index catalogue covered 19 chronological volumes. Subsequently, three Subject Indexes were published.

Two major installments of Catalogue of Scientific Papers are now online for searching through 19th Century Masterfile:

• Installment 1: The three Subject indexes produced by the Royal Society covering Pure Mathematics (1908); Mechanics (1909); and a 2-volume set covering Physics (1914).
• Installment 2: Volumes 13-19 covering 1884-1900, containing over 400,000 citations.

For a quick glance at all the files now available through 19th Century Masterfile, please go to www.paratext.com/NCM2007.pdf

The research horizons for scholars and patrons are now greatly enhanced through access to this enormously valuable historical resource. It's all part of the 19th Century Masterfile: The First Stop for Historical Research.