Notes on Organization and Use of the Subject Bibliography: The bibliography is organized alphabetically by subject and is also accessible by broad categories, as noted on the bibliography main page.  Titles appear under only one subject heading.  In addition to the primary subject headings (listed below), there may also be a sub-heading as delineated in the following table.  These sub-headings are not subjects in the usual sense, but are used to indicate the book’s format, focus, or approach.The primary subject headings are given in the left margin of the bibliography in all capital letters, while the sub-headings are in initial capital – lower case form, as:
Natural history: Biographical Stroud, Patricia Tyson. Thomas Say, New World Naturalist. 340pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Sub-Headings used with Subject Terms
Archival guides  
Artifacts, Instruments, substances Relates to a particular (generally physical) entity
Bibliography  
Biographical Relates to one or several lives, generally specified (not for collective biography)
Biographical (reference works) Use under specific subjects
Catalogs Use for instruments, etc.
Chronology  
Dictionaries and encyclopedias  
Exhibitions  
[Geographical divisions] Names of individual states of the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Latin America
Historiography  
Institutional Relates to one or several institutions (broadly defined), generally specified
Library resources  
Museums  
Pictorialworks Contains pictures
Sources Collections of previously published articles, books, documents, etc
Sources (archival) Published (including microform) versions of archival documents
Academic institutions
Acoustics
Aeronautics and astronautics
Agricultural chemistry
Agricultural experiment stations
Agriculture
Anatomy
Animals (attitudes and protection)
Anthropology and ethnology
Archaeology
Arts (relations to science)
Astronomy and astrophysics
Biochemistry and molecular biology
Bioethics
Biology (General)
Biotechnology
Birth control
Botanical gardens
Botany
Chemical technology
Chemistry
Child birth, rearing, and development
Communications
Computers and information science
Creationism
Disease
Drugs (use and addiction)
Earth sciences (general )
Ecology
Economics (field of study)
Education in science
Electricity and electronics
Embryology
Energy (science and policy)
Engineering
Engineering (chemical)
Engineering (civil and military)
Engineering (electrical)
Engineering (mechanical)
Engineering education
Entomology
Environment and conservation
Ethnicity, race, and gender
Eugenics
Evolution
Exploration and surveying
Fairs and expositions
Foreign science and U.S.
Forestry
Genetics and genetic engineering
Geography and cartography
Geological and natural history surveys (federal)
Geological and natural history surveys (states)
Geology
Geophysics and geodesy
Geriatrics and aging
Government (relations to science)
Government (relations to science) (federal)
Health, illness, and popular practices
Home economics and homemaking
Hospitals
Ichthyology and pisciculture
Industrial research
Industrial revolution
Industry and business
Industry, science, and technology
Information access (organizations, tools,etc.)
Law and science
Literature (relations to science)
Management (scientific)
Mathematics
Medical education
Medicine
Medicine (alternative)
Medicine (politics and public policy)
Medicine (social aspects and relations)
Mental health and illness
Mesmerism
Metallurgy
Meteorology and climatology
Microbiology and microscopy
Military and war (relations to science)
Mineralogy and crystallography
Mining
Minorities and science
Museums
Native Americans (study of)
Natural history
Natural Philosophy
Nature (attitudes toward)
Nature writing
Neurology and neurobiology
Nursing
Nutrition
Oceanography
Ornithology
Paleontology
Parapsychology and spiritualism
Patents and U.S. Patent Office
Patronage
Periodicals and publishing
Petroleum (science, engineering, and industry)
Pharmacy and pharmacology
Philosophy
Photography
Physical sciences (general)
Physics
Physiology
Politics and public policy (relations to science)
Popular science and popularization
Psychiatry
Psychological and intelligence testing
Psychology
Public health and health policy
Religion and theology (relations to science)
Research institutions (non-profit)
Science (general)
Science (General): 1789-1865
Scientists (community and characteristics)
Sex and sexuality
Social and behavioral sciences
Social aspects and relations of science
Societies and associations
Sociology (field of study)
Soil science
Statistics and actuarial science
Surgery
Technology and invention
Technology and invention (politics and public policy)
Technology and invention (social aspects and relations)
Transportation
Water resources
Weaponry
Women and health
Women and science
Zoology
Zoos
 
 

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