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HIST 478: Cold War Landscapes: Scientific/Technical Reports

Cold War Landscapes
Professor: Karen Merrill
Spring 2020

Journal Articles

Be sure to use the publication date limit in the databases below to get scientifc articles written during the time period you are researching.

PubMed
Publication Dates: 1946-present
Contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world.
JSTOR
Publication Dates: varies by journal
Digitized archive of leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Web of Science
Publication Dates: 1900-Present
Includes Science Citation Index which contains 5,800 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.

Scientific/Technical Reports

JPRS (Joint Publications Research Service) Reports
Publication Dates: 1957-1995
Provides English translations of foreign scientific, technical, and social science materials produced during the Cold War.

Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL)
Digitized U.S. government technical reports issued primarily prior to 1976.
Department of Defense, Defense Technical Information Center
Contains nearly two million reports conveying the results of Defense-sponsored research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) efforts.