Primary sources in sciences, allied sciences and applied sciences are predominantly reports of original, quantitative research and controlled experiments. The reports are typically found in scholarly articles.
Headquartered at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives in Washington, D.C., BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and making it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity community.”
Among various collections, is a collection which holds over 580 incunabula titles on subjects relating to science and medicine, from printed classical works of Galen and Hippocrates to materials on the plague and other "pestilences." The word incunabula comes from the Latin word cuna (cradle) and refers to books printed during the infancy of printing, which dates from the invention of moveable type (c. 1455) until 1500. Also included in NLM’s incunabula collection are undated works previously believed to have been printed prior to 1501, but subsequently dated by scholars to the 16th century.
The House of Representatives had asked Jefferson, the Secretary of State under George Washington, to submit a report on establishing a standardized system of weights and measures for the new nation.
Lauryn Zipse, PhD, CCC-SLP, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the MGH Institute
Crawford-Dickinson, P. (2018). The Impact of Pre-entry Pathways on Academic Outcomes for Students Enrolled in a Practical Nursing Program. Available from Nursing & Allied Health Collection database. Another database, with scientific coverage, is OpenDissertations. Both are accessible via the UCNJ Libraries' list of DATABASES, linked at the upper left corner "Quick Links" on our homepage.
