G.S. Callendar, 1938
NSDL's Classic Articles in Context (CAC)
allows ongoing access to:
- Landmark works of scientific inquiry via dynamic learning spaces for teachers and learners
- Links to related NSDL teaching resources and bibliographies of contemporary articles that cite classic papers
- A venue for collaborative discussion and contribution directed by its users
To achieve our goal of illustrating science as a process that builds, and often turns, on discovery and replication expressed in the archival literature of empirical findings, NSDL works with publishers to make the original, full-texts of select "classic" articles available to students whether or not their institution holds a subscription to the journals in which they appeared.
Every article featured will include a narrative essay that provides an overview of the investigation suitable for introductory undergraduate science courses. The collections, published through the NSDL Wiki, allow for ongoing editorial development and customization by the NSDL Community or commentary through a direct interface to dedicated sections of the NSDL ExpertVoices blog.
Publishers, societies, and journals participating in the project:
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- The American Geophysical Union
- The American Meteorological Society
- The American Philosophical Society
- The National Academies Press
- The Rockefeller University Press
- Royal Meteorological Society
- Springer
- Taylor and Francis
- Wiley-Blackwell
- The Yale University Department of Geology/Geophysics (American Journal of Science)
Issue 1: Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming: A Selection of Key Articles, 1824-1995, with Interpretive Essays: Science historian James Fleming introduces 21 papers ranging from an 1824 essay by Fourier to a 1995 paper in the journal Climate Dynamics. (launched April 2008)
Coming soon:
Issue 2: An Idiosyncratic History of Giant Magnetoresistance
Issue 3: Polymers: From Small Molecules to Useful Macromolecular Materials