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Eugene Garfield Papers
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Eugene Garfield was a prominent American information scientist and a pioneer in the field of scientometrics. He was the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), a renowned academic publishing service that offered scientometric and bibliographic database services, and specialized in citation index and analysis. Garfield was also the inventor of the Science Citation Index (SCI),Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),Current Contents,Index Chemicus, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. These inventions provided an objective and quantitative basis for analyzing information flows in scientific communication and fostered the growth of the field of scientometrics.
Eugene Garfield was born in New York City on September 16, 1925. He briefly attended the University of Colorado Boulder, then served in the United States Army during the latter stages of World War II. After his discharge from the military, Garfield resumed his education and earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1948.
Garfield's career in scientific communication and information began in 1951 when he joined the Welch Medical Indexing Project at Johns Hopkins University. The goal of this project was to examine problems of medical information retrieval and the application of new methods to indexing biomedical literature.
One of Garfield's contributions to the Welch Project involved the revision of the subject heading authority list used for the Current List. More than 30,000 subject heading terms were then in use and available only on printed lists or index cards. The Welch Project transferred the data to punched cards for machine sorting. The lists that were eventually produced became the firstSubject Heading Authority List, the prototype of Medical Subject Headings, the authoritative list of indexing terms presently used by Index Medicus, a bibliographic database for medical science information.
In addition, the Welch Project planted the seeds for several major advances in scientific communication and information science that distinguished Garfield's career. They can be expressed as two basic and related themes: information discovery and information recovery.
Information discovery refers to how researchers stay current with the thousands of articles being published. While still with the Welch Project, Garfield produced Contents in Advance, a current awareness publication that reproduced the contents pages of library documents and journals. This allowed users to browse a wide range of journals for relevant articles. It was also the prototype of Current Contents, which is now published in seven discipline-specific editions.
Information recovery relates to how researchers locate relevant articles among a flood of literature. Subject indexes, like Index Medicus, were the traditional means for information recovery. However, these indexes required substantial intellectual effort and subjective judgment by human indexers. The results were often confusing, duplicative, costly, and quite late. At the Welch Project, Garfield became interested in using machines to automatically generate indexing terms that effectively describe a document's contents without human intervention.
Garfield resumed his education after the completion of the Welch Project, earning an M.S. in Library Science from Columbia University in 1954. Upon receiving his master's degree, he went to work as a part-time consultant for Smith, Kline, and French in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1954, while working at Smith, Kline, and French, Garfield established DocuMation, Incorporated, a private publishing service. A year later, Garfield's new firm introduced the contents-page publication Current Contents of Management and Social Science. Bell Laboratories became the firm's first major corporate client, contracting for 500 copies of this publication. Two years later, DocuMation began producing Current Contents/Pharmaco-Medical and Life Sciences, a publication covering literature of interest to pharmaceutical companies. This publication was also discovered by physicians and academic biomedical researchers, who promptly requested subscriptions. Also during this time period, Garfield conceived and started developing the concept of the citation index, which he first proposed in an article published in Science in 1955.
Under Garfield's leadership, DocuMation grew. In 1958, the firm was renamed Eugene Garfield Associates and relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1960, Eugene Garfield Associates was incorporated and renamed the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), with Garfield serving as its President and CEO. In addition to running his business, Garfield continued his education, eventually earning his Ph.D. in Structural Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961.
In 1959, Garfield was contacted by Joshua Lederberg, a prominent molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize that year. Lederberg was interested in Garfield's work on the citation index. Subsequent correspondence between the two men led to a meeting with the National Institute of Health's (NIH) genetics study section. As a result of this meeting, Garfield received funding to develop and distribute the Genetics Citation Index, which included a multi-disciplinary index to the scientific literature of 1961. The NIH declined to publish the multi-disciplinary index, so Garfield decided to publish it on his own. The end result of this work was the Science Citation Index (SCI), which was introduced by ISI in 1964.
Science Citation Index soon distinguished itself from other literature indexes and was recognized as a basic and fundamental innovation in scientific communication and information science. It was truly current while other traditional indexes were often several years behind the literature. SCI was comprehensive, indexing all types of source items, including research articles and reviews. It also indexed technical notes corrections and errata, letters, editorials, and discussions. SCI was also multidisciplinary, covering virtually all disciplines and fields of science. Most importantly,SCI uniquely indexed the references cited in the articles it indexed. This allowed users, for the first time, to take advantage of the associations and connections that researchers themselves made through the references they cited in their papers.
From 1961 onward, Garfield's career was marked by the development of new information tools for researchers combined with constant enhancement of existing tools. The new tools included Index Chemicus,Current Chemical Reactions, newCurrent Contents editions covering clinical medicine, chemistry, physics, and other disciplines,Automatic Subject Citation Alert (a personalized selective dissemination of information service now called Research Alert), theGenuine Article (rapid document delivery),Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), as well as theArts and Humanities Citation Index (A and HCI),Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings and Books,Index to Scientific Reviews, and others.
As the volume of literature grew exponentially, Garfield's innovations made it possible for researchers to cope with and keep up with articles directly relevant to their interests. His inventions improved scientific communication by helping to limit wasteful duplication of prior research, reveal unexpected relationships between articles, identify significant improvements on earlier work, and draw attention to the important corrections or retractions of published research.
In addition to his work in the development of information tools, Garfield was the founder and editor-in-chief of The Scientist. First published by ISI in 1986,The Scientist, is a bi-weekly newspaper for the research professional. It reports on news and developments relevant to the professional and practical interests of scientists, and provides a forum for the discussion of issues important both to the research community and society.
In the latter stages of his career, Garfield focused on the development of algorithmic historiography, a theme he first pursued in 1964 when computer memories were still too primitive to take advantage of the limited structure of SCI. Subsequently, he developed and patented the HistCite system which enabled researchers and librarians to differentiate the most significant works on any given topic when conducting searches on the electronic version ofSCI,SSCI, and/or A and HCI. The output of thisHistCite software was a historiographic chronological presentation of the key works and shows their interrelationships.
ISI was acquired by Thomson Scientific and Healthcare in 1992. The business was subsequently renamed Thomson ISI and became part of Thomson's Intellectual Property and Science unit. Garfield stayed with Thomson ISI as Chairman Emeritus. In 2016, Thomson spun off its Intellectual Property and Science business, which was subsequently named Clarivate Analytics. Two years later, Clarivate reestablished ISI as part of its Scientific and Academic Research Group. ISI currently exists as a group within Clarivate.
Over the course of his career, Garfield presented numerous speeches, papers, and presentations before high-level medical, scientific, and information science symposia and conferences. His topics included science education, peer review, research evaluation, future trends in medical information and documentation, the economic and social impact of basic research, the value of animal experimentation, creativity in science, and other subjects. He was also the author of over 1,000 weekly essays in Current Contents and published and edited commentaries by the authors of over 5,000Citation Classics. Garfield was also the author of a large number of journal and periodical articles.
Over the course of his life, Garfield was the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his contributions to information science and the scientific community, which include the following:
- Patterson-Crane Award - 1983
- John Price Wetherill Medal - 1984
- Derek de Solla Price Medal - 1984
- Richard J. Bolte Sr. Award - 2007
Garfield was also an active member of a number of professional organizations, which include the following:
- American Chemical Society
- American Society for Information Science and Technology
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Medical Library Association
Eugene Garfield passed away on February 26, 2017.
Sources
Eugene Garfield Papers, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Eugene Garfield, Ph.D., Career Overview, http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/overvu.html
The Eugene Garfield Papers contains the personal papers of Eugene Garfield. The collection is arranged into the following 11 series:
- Subject Files
- Publication and Presentation Files
- Meeting Files
- Trip Files
- Anthony Cawkell Files
- Personal Files
- Printed Materials
- Audio-Visual Materials
- Electronic Storage Materials
- Transparencies
- Photographic Materials
Selected materials from this collection have been digitized and are available online in our Digital Collections: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/collections/w1y114h
The Eugene Garfield Papers were donated to the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) by Meher Garfield in two accessions: August 2009 and December 2018.
The Eugene Garfield Papers were processed by Kenton G. Jaehnig in December 2019.
In October 2022, the following optical disks were deemed out of scope and removed from the collection:
- American Express Presents "Tranquil Seas" (audio CD), 1997
- The Best of Strauss (audio CD), undated
- Blue Sky Software: HTML Help (CD-ROM), 1999
- A Passion for Art: Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and Dr. Barnes (CD-ROM), 1995
- Hewlett-Packard: Photo Project Software (CD-ROM), 1997
- Troyen's Medea 3 (audio CD), undated
- Troyen's Medea 2 (audio CD), undated
- Chemical Heritage Foundation 100 Greatest Scientific Discoveries in Science (DVD), 2005
People
Organization
- American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Eugene Garfield Associates
- Institute for Scientific Information
- National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
- The Scientist
- Thomson Scientific (Firm)
- University of Pennsylvania
Subject
- Academic writing
- Chemistry--Nomenclature
- Chemistry -- Notation
- Citation indexes
- Communication in science
- History -- Research -- Data processing
- Humanities -- Abstracting and indexing
- Indexing
- Information science
- Information scientists -- United States -- Biography
- Information scientists -- United States -- Interviews
- Science -- Abstracting and indexing
- Science -- Historiography
- Technology -- Abstracting and indexing
- Publisher
- Science History Institute Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid created by Patrick H. Shea.
- Finding Aid Date
- 2009
- Access Restrictions
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There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes and the collection is open to the public.
- Use Restrictions
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The Science History Institute holds copyright to the Eugene Garfield Papers. The researcher assumes full responsibility for all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Collection Inventory
This series contains Eugene Garfield's subject files. Arranged alphabetically by subject, the materials in this series mainly document Garfield's professional endeavors. To a significant extent, they also document ISI, including its operations and products. Subjects covered by these files include Garfield's friends and colleagues, institutions such as universities and corporations, and professional organizations. Files pertaining to ISI matters and miscellaneous topics that were of interest to Garfield and ISI staff are also found here.
The Subject Files contain a wide variety of materials. Correspondence makes up a majority of the materials found within the Subject Files. Significant amounts of periodical and newspaper articles, publications, periodicals, article reprints, and miscellaneous printed materials are also found in this series. Smaller, but noticeable, amounts of notes, copies of conference papers, paper manuscripts, article manuscripts, webpage printouts, reports, legal documents, and proposals are also preserved in this series. Small amounts of many other types of materials, including, but not limited to, press releases, government documents, bibliography printouts, photographs, audio tapes, floppy disks, and CD-ROMS are found here as well.
NOTE – A handful of empty files labelled "File Empty" are present in the Subject Files. These files are kept here because they were determined to be an integral part of the sub-series. It is believed that these files formerly contained materials that are now missing.
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This series contains Eugene Garfield's publication and presentation files. The contents of the Publication and Presentation Files are arranged into the following 4 sub-series:
- Bibliographies
- Numerical Files
- E-Numbered Files
- Alphabetical Files
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this sub-series contains bibliographies of journal articles, book chapters, conference presentations, letters to the editor, and reports written and co-written by Eugene Garfield. The bibliographies were frequently updated over the course of Garfield's career.
Bibliographies (many of them annotated) make up a large majority of the materials in these files. A small amount of accompanying materials pertaining to the bibliographies, including notes and correspondence, are found in this sub-series as well.
Arranged numerically by file number (1, 2, 3, etc.), this sub-series is comprised of journal articles, book chapters, conference presentations, letters to the editor, and reports written and co-written by Eugene Garfield. Altogether there are nearly 500 works authored and co-authored by Garfield. This sub-series begins with Garfield's first article "Bang Those Robot Heads Together," which was published in Chemical and Engineering News in 1952. A handful of articles not written by Garfield are also found here. The transparencies Garfield used for some of his speeches and presentations can be found in Series X of this collection.
Article, book chapter, presentation, letter to the editor, and report manuscripts make up a majority of the materials in these files. Noticeable amounts of periodical and newspaper articles, periodicals, copies of conference papers, article reprints, publications, and correspondence are also preserved in this sub-series. Small amounts of a variety of other materials, including, but not limited to, webpage printouts, article proofs, transparencies, photographs, and floppy disks are found here as well.
NOTE – A handful of empty files labelled "File Empty" are present in the Numerical Files. These files are kept here because they were determined to be an integral part of the sub-series. It is believed that these files formerly contained materials that are now missing.
NOTE – A handful of empty files labelled "Unidentified File - Missing" and "Unidentified Files - Missing" are present in the Numerical Files. These files are kept here because they were determined to be an integral part of the sub-series. The identity of these files could not be determined. It is also believed that these unidentified files formerly contained materials that are now missing.
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Arranged numerically by file number (E-1, E-2, E-3, etc.), this sub-series is mainly comprised of conference presentations and articles written and co-written by Eugene Garfield. A handful of articles not authored by Garfield, which pertain to information science topics, are also found here.
The contents of the E-Numbered Files consist mainly of article and presentation manuscripts. Noticeable amounts of periodical, journal, and newspaper articles, correspondence, bibliography printouts, and publications are also present in this sub-series. Smaller amounts of a variety of other materials, including, but not limited to, article reprints, miscellaneous printed materials, notes, and transparencies are preserved here as well.
Contains 14 black and white transparencies.
Contains 1 black and white transparency.
Arranged alphabetically by author and by title, this sub-series is mainly comprised of articles and presentations written and co-written by Eugene Garfield. A few articles not authored by Garfield, which pertain to information science topics, are also found here.
The contents of the Alphabetical Files consist mainly of article and presentation manuscripts. Noticeable amounts of periodical and journal articles, correspondence, and article reprints are also present in this sub-series. A few publications, notes, and periodicals are preserved in this sub-series as well.
Contains 1 5.25 inch floppy disk.
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Contains 2 3.5 inch floppy disks.
Contains 1 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Contains 1 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Contains 1 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this series contains Eugene Garfield's meeting files. These files provide documentation of some of the professional meetings, conferences, symposia, and seminars attended by Garfield between the 1960s and 2000s. To a lesser extent, they also document Garfield's activities at these meetings, which in most cases, featured presentations given by him.
The contents of the Meeting Files consist of a variety of materials. Correspondence, manuscripts of articles and presentations written by Garfield, journal and periodical articles, and miscellaneous printed materials are the most common items found in this series. Noticeable amounts of notes, copies of conference papers, webpage printouts, article reprints, and floppy disks are also present in the Meeting Files. Examples of a few other types of materials, including, but not limited to, publications, bibliography printouts, a CD-ROM, and a DVD are preserved here as well.
NOTE – A single file labelled "File Empty" (Box 104 Folder 6) is present in the Numerical Files sub-series. This file is kept here because it was determined to be an integral part of the sub-series. It is believed that this file formerly contained materials that are now missing.
Contains 1 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Contains 1 5.25 inch floppy disk.
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Contains 1 CD-ROM and 1 DVD.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this series consists of Eugene Garfield's trip files. These files document Garfield's activities on his business travels in the United States and overseas, during which he drummed up business for ISI , attended to the needs of ISI customers, and attended professional meetings, conferences, symposiums, and seminars.
Trip reports make up the majority of the materials in this series. Noticeable amounts of correspondence, client lists, miscellaneous printed materials, and notes are also found in the Trip Files. Small amounts of other types of materials, including, but not limited to, photographs, presentation manuscripts, and magazine and newspaper articles are preserved in this series as well.
Contains 1 black and white image.
Contains 1 color image.
Anthony Cawkell (1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer, information scientist, and a longtime colleague and associate of Eugene Garfield. Known as "ISI's Man in London", he was a key staff member and executive with ISI's European Branch in London, England, serving as Consultant (late 1960s-1971), Branch Director (1971-1973), Director of Research (1973-1978), and Vice President of Research (1979-1980).
At ISI, Cawkell played a key role in the development of a number of ISI projects, including Copywriter,SciTel, PRIMATE, andSci-Mate. He was also the author of numerous papers, reviews, and book chapters. Cawkell left ISI in 1980 to become Director of CITECH, Limited, but continued to serve ISI as a consultant for a number of years.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, the files in this series mainly document Cawkell's activities as an ISI employee. To a lesser extent, they also document his consultant work for ISI as director of CITECH.
Correspondence and research and development reports make up a majority of the materials found in the Anthony Cawkell Files. A significant amount of periodical articles, journal articles and activities reports are also present in this series. Small amounts of a variety of other materials, including, but not limited to, notes, miscellaneous printed materials, patents, and photographs are preserved in this series as well.
Contains 1 black and white image.
Contains 1 black and white image.
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Contains 2 color images.
This series contains Eugene Garfield's personal files. Arranged alphabetically by subject, this series consists of files pertaining to miscellaneous subjects that were of particular importance or interest to Garfield. Files regarding Garfield himself and his unpublished book on aging are also present in this series. Files concerning ISI matters and Garfield's adjunct professorship at the University of Pennsylvania are also preserved here.
The contents of the Personal Files consist of a variety of materials. Correspondence, periodical, journal, and newspaper articles, book and presentation manuscripts, and notes are the most common materials found in this series. Noticeable amounts of legal documents, copies of conference papers, applications, article reprints, and miscellaneous printed materials are also present in the Personal Files. Small amounts of other types of materials, including, but not limited to, periodicals, resumes and publications are preserved here as well.
Contains 1 color image and 1 color negative strip.
This series contains printed materials collected by Eugene Garfield. The contents of the Printed Materials are arranged into the following 4 sub-series:
- Institute for Scientific Information - Citation Classics
- Institute for Scientific Information - Assorted Printed Materials
- Miscellaneous Printed Materials
- Books
Arranged chronologically and alphabetically by subject, this sub-series contains materials pertaining to ISI'sCitation Classics article series. Published between 1977 and 1993 in the ISI weekly publicationCurrent Contents, this article series featured commentary on highly-cited publications as identified byScience Citation Index (SCI),Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), andArts and Humanities Citation Index (A and HCI). In the words of Eugene Garfield, Citation Classics was also intended to capture "the human side of science".
Photocopies ofCitation Classics articles published between 1985 and 1993 make up the bulk of the materials in this sub-series. Photocopies ofCitation Classics article lists are preserved here as well.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this sub-series contains assorted ISI printed materials collected by Eugene Garfield. A variety of ISI printed materials are found in this sub-series. Newsletters and periodicals are the most common items found in this sub-series. A noticeable amount of brochures, publications, and press releases are also present here. Small amounts of other types of printed materials, including, but not limited to, article reprints, instructions, articles, and an advertising flyer are preserved in this sub-series as well.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this sub-series consists of miscellaneous non-ISI printed materials collected by Eugene Garfield. A variety of non-ISI printed materials are found in this sub-series. Periodical, journal, and newspapers articles, and article reprints are the most common materials found in this sub-series. A noticeable amount of brochures and publications are also present here. Small amounts of other types of printed materials, including, but not limited to, copies of conference papers, a newspaper, an instruction manual, and a floppy disk are preserved in this sub-series as well.
Contains 1 5.25 inch floppy disk.
This sub-series consists of books collected by Eugene Garfield. The books in Box 111 are arranged alphabetically by publisher and alphabetically by title. The books in Box 112 are arranged numerically by volume number. Books published by ISI, which include Essays of an Information Scientist,Contemporary Classics in the Life Sciences, andISI's Who Is Publishing in Science, make up the bulk of the materials in this sub-series. A three volume set published by the American Society for Information Science and the Chemical Heritage Foundation is present in this sub-series as well.
This series contains audio-visual materials collected by Eugene Garfield. The contents of the Audio-Visual Materials are arranged into the following 3 sub-series:
- Audiocassettes
- Videotapes
- Motion Picture Films
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this sub-series contains audiocassettes collected by Eugene Garfield. A majority of audiocassettes contain recordings taken at professional functions pertaining to information science, which include talks by Anthony Cawkell and Robert K. Merton. Audio recordings of a handful of other miscellaneous topics are preserved here as well.
Arranged alphabetically by format and alphabetically by subject, this sub-series contains videotapes collected by Eugene Garfield. Its contents consist of 7 VHS tapes and 1 Beta tape. These videotapes concern a handful of topics. Four of the tapes contain video footage of professional functions, with several of them featuring appearances by Eugene Garfield. Three videotapes regarding Garfield himself are also present in this sub-series. A single tape concerning the beginnings of ISI is also preserved here.
Arranged alphabetically by format, this sub-series contains two motion picture films collected by Eugene Garfield. Its contents consist of the 8 mm film Christmas Party 1971 and the 16 mm film"ISI Supplement".
Arranged alphabetically by format and alphabetically by subject, this series consists of electronic storage materials collected by Eugene Garfield. Its contents consist of 1 5.25 inch floppy disk, 26 CD-ROMs, 9 DVDs, and 1 zip disk.
A significant number of items in this series were created for use in Eugene Garfield's presentations at various professional functions. Also of note in this sub-series are several items regarding Garfield himself and 4 DVD copies of the ISI instructional film How to Use the Science Citation Index. A few items created for other miscellaneous purposes are also present here.
The CD-ROMs in this series contain a variety of materials, including, but not limited to, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Pdf documents, HTML documents, digital images, and audio recordings. The contents of the DVDs consist solely of video recordings. The 5.25 inch floppy disk contains demonstration software for ISI's Science Citation Index. The contents of the zip disk are unknown.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this series consists of 8.5 x 11 transparencies. A large majority of the transparencies were created by ISI for use by Eugene Garfield. A handful of transparencies created by Sandia National Laboratories and an unidentified firm are also found here.
The transparencies in this series were used by Eugene Garfield for his various speeches and presentations. They cover a diverse range of topics pertaining to information science and Garfield's career. A number of the speeches and presentations for which these transparencies were created can be found in Series II.
Black and white transparencies and color transparencies make up the bulk of the materials in this series. A large majority of the transparencies are mounted on cardboard frames. A noticeable amount of accompanying speech and presentation manuscripts are also found in this series. A small amount of other accompanying materials, including print versions of a few of the transparencies, notes, a floppy disk and a CD-ROM are found here as well.
Contains 5 color transparencies.
Contains 19 color transparencies.
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Contains 3 color transparencies and 6 black and white transparencies.
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Contains 25 black and white transparencies and 2 black and white transparencies.
Contains 14 black and white transparencies and 3 color transparencies.
Contains 18 color transparencies and 8 black and white images.
Contains 22 black and white transparencies and 5 color transparencies.
Contains 17 color transparencies.
Contains 1 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Contains 4 black and white transparencies.
Contains 28 color transparencies and 7 black and white transparencies.
Contains 7 color transparencies and 4 black and white transparencies.
Contains 1 color and transparency and 1 black and white transparency.
Contains 1 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Contains 4 black and white transparencies.
Contains 19 color transparencies and 5 black and white transparencies.
Contains 16 black and white transparencies.
Contains 23 black and white transparencies.
Contains 9 black and white transparencies and 1 color transparency.
Contains 7 black and white transparencies and 14 color transparencies.
Contains 17 black and white transparencies and 5 color transparencies.
Contains 6 color transparencies and 12 black and white images.
Contains 26 black and white transparencies and 1 color transparency.
Contains 11 color transparencies and 9 black and white images.
Contains 14 black and white transparencies.
Contains 14 black and white transparencies.
Contains 6 color transparencies and 2 black and white transparencies.
Contains 5 black and white transparencies.
Contains 19 black and white transparencies.
Contains 6 color transparencies and 2 black and white transparencies.
Contains 4 black and white transparencies.
Contains 17 black and white and 7 color transparencies.
Contains 26 color transparencies.
Contains 71 black and white transparencies and 1 color transparency.
Contains 6 black and white transparencies.
Contains 5 color transparencies and 7 black and white transparencies.
Contains 5 color transparencies.
Contains 6 color transparencies and 1 black and white transparency.
Contains 3 color transparencies.
Contains 4 black and white transparencies.
Contains 10 black and white transparencies.
Contains 16 black and white transparencies and 3 color transparencies.
Contains 60 black and white transparencies and 21 color transparencies.
Contains 7 color transparencies and 1 black and white transparency.
Contains 5 black and white transparencies and 1 color transparency.
Contains 34 color transparencies and 6 black and white transparencies.
Contains 19 color transparencies and 10 black and white transparencies.
Contains 14 color transparencies and 3 black and white transparencies.
Contains 7 color transparencies and 1 color image.
Contains 1 color transparency and 1 black and white transparency.
Contains 6 color transparencies.
Contains 2 color transparencies.
Contains 4 color transparencies.
This series contains photographic materials collected by Eugene Garfield over the course of his career. The contents of the Photographic Materials are arranged into the following 4 sub-series:
- Photo Albums
- Photographs
- Negatives
- Slides
Note – Item level cataloging may be available, consult Image Archives.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this sub-series contains two photo albums collected by Eugene Garfield. One photo album document's Garfield's 1998 trip to China. The other photo album was created by ISI staff for Garfield and concerns the Caring Center at ISI's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania headquarters.
In terms of format, the contents of the photo albums consist mainly of color photographs. The Caring Center photo album contains a small amount of accompanying labels.
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Contains 24 color images.
Contains 24 color images.
This sub-series contains Eugene Garfield's photograph collection. The contents of Box 121 are arranged alphabetically by subject. The contents of Boxes 122-126 are arranged by image size and alphabetically by subject.
A majority of the images in this sub-series feature Garfield himself, which include, but are not limited to portraits, images of Garfield with information science colleagues, with ISI staff, and participating in various professional, public relations, and recreational activities. A large number of images focusing on ISI are present, which include, but are not limited to, staff, facilities, artwork at the firm's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania headquarters, and various public relations and staff activities. A significant number of images of miscellaneous people, including, but not limited to, ISI staff, information science colleagues of Garfield, scientists from various disciplines, and artists are also preserved here.
Photographs of various sizes make up the bulk of the materials in this sub-series. A handful of photocopied images are also found in this sub-series. A small amount of accompanying materials, including notes and correspondence, are preserved here as well.
Note – Item level cataloging may be available, consult Image Archives.
Contains 3 black and white images and 1 color image.
Contains 3 black and white images.
Contains 1 black and white image.
Contains 45 black and white images.
Contains 5 color images.
Contains 10 black and white images.
Contains 8 color images.
Contains 4 color images.
Contains 11 color images.
Contains 10 color images.
Contains 5 color images.
Contains 5 color images.
Contains 19 color images.
Contains 7 color images.
Contains 7 color images.
Contains 3 color images.
Contains 2 color images.
Contains 15 color images.
Contains 3 color images.
Contains 20 color images.
Contains 4 color images.
Contains 1 color image.
Contains 3 color images.
Contains 11 color images.
Contains 10 color images.
Contains 7 color images.
Contains 3 color images.
Contains 8 color images.
Contains 13 color images.
Contains 2 color images.
Contains 8 color images.
Contains 6 color images.
Contains 10 color images.
Contains 8 color images.
Contains 8 color images.
Contains 9 color images.
Contains 9 color images.
Contains 4 color images.
Contains 23 black and white images.
Contains 7 black and white images and 21 color images.
Contains 68 color images.
Contains 7 black and white images.
Contains 10 black and white images.
Contains 27 color images.
Contains 8 color images.
Contains 8 black and white images.
Contains 16 black and white images.
Contains 39 color images.
Contains 29 black and white images and 30 color images.
Contains 5 black and white images.
Contains 21 black and white images.
Contains 5 black and white images.
Contains 31 black and white images.
Contains 5 color images.
Contains 5 black and white images.
Contains 8 black and white images.
Contains 15 black and white images.
Contains 15 color images.
Contains 5 color images.
Contains 12 color images.
Contains 43 color images.
Contains 2 black and white images and 7 color images.
Contains 22 color images.
Contains 1 color image.
Contains 3 color images and 3 black and white images.
Contains 17 color images.
Contains 3 color images and 3 black and white images.
Contains 9 color images.
Contains 1 black and white image.
Contains 4 black and white images.
Contains 40 black and white images and 5 color images.
Contains 7 black and white images.
Contains 6 black and white images.
Contains 25 black and white images and 1 color image.
Contains 13 black and white images and 5 color images.
Contains 7 black and white images.
Contains 23 color images.
Contains 5 black and white images.
Contains 8 black and white images.
Contains 8 black and white images.
Contains 8 black and white images.
Contains 7 black and white images.
Contains 6 black and white images.
Contains 3 black and white images.
Contains 3 black and white images.
Contains 14 black and white images.
Contains 12 black and white images.
Contains 68 black and white images.
Contains 28 black and white images.
Contains 14 black and white images.
Contains 4 black and white images.
Contains 24 black and white images.
Contains 25 black and white images.
Contains 10 black and white images.
Contains 4 black and white images and 5 color images.
Contains 4 black and white images and 3 color images.
Contains 6 black and white images.
Contains 88 black and white images and 4 color images.
Contains 35 black and white images.
Contains 1 black and white image, 1 color image, and 2 black and white photocopied images.
Contains 13 black and white photocopied images.
Contains 2 color images.
Contains 13 black and white images, 1 color image, 10 black and white photocopied images, and 1 color photocopied image.
Contains 1 color image and 5 color photocopied images.
Contains 62 black and white images.
This sub-series contains Eugene Garfield's negative collection. Most of the negatives in this sub-series are of images found in Sub-series 2. Arranged by image size and alphabetically by subject, the negatives concern a handful of topics, including, but not limited to, Garfield himself and his activities, the artwork of Guillermo Wagner Granizo, the Huichol Indians, and ISI.
Negative strips of various formats make up the bulk of the materials in this sub-series. A handful individual negatives of various sizes are preserved here as well.
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Contains 6 black and white 35 mm negative strips.
Contains 10 color 35 mm negative strips.
Contains 19 color 35mm negative strips.
Contains 4 black and white 35 mm negative strips.
Contains 7 black and white 35 mm negative strips.
Contains 21 black and white 8 mm negative strips, 4 color 8 mm negative strips, and 6 black and white 16 mm negative strips.
Contains 2 black and white negatives.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this sub-series contains Eugene Garfield's collection of 35 mm slides. The slides in this sub-series were created by ISI and used for staff, sales, and public relations purposes. Many of them were used by Garfield for his speeches and presentation. A number of the speeches and presentations for which some of these slides were created can be found in Series II.
The images in the Slides sub-series concern a number of subjects. Presentation slides featuring text, graphs, and illustrations make up a significant portion of the images in this sub-series. A large number of slides concerning ISI, including its facilities, artwork, and products are also present in this sub-series. A handful of slides of Garfield himself are preserved here as well.
Note – Item level cataloging may be available, consult Image Archives.
Contains 21 black and white slides and 11 color slides.
Contains 69 color slides.
Contains 14 color slides.
Contains 13 color slides and 1 black and white slide.
Contains 7 color slides.
Contains 23 color slides.
Contains 26 color slides.
Contains 25 color slides.
Contains 12 color slides.
Contains 23 color slides.
Contains 11 color slides.
Contains 14 color slides.
Contains 16 color slides.
Contains 15 black and white slides and 13 color slides.
Contains 20 black and slides and 22 color slides.
Contains 43 color slides.
Contains 29 color slides.
Contains 34 color slides.
Contains 26 color slides.
Contains 15 color slides.
Contains 8 black and white slides and 1 color slide.
Contains 6 color slides.
Contains 52 color slides.
Contains 4 color slides.
Contains 14 color slides.
Contains 27 color slides.
Contains 11 color slides.
Contains 25 color slides.
Contains 4 color slides.
Contains 1 color slide.
Contains 11 color slides.
Contains 7 color slides.
Contains 14 color slides.
Contains 27 color slides.
Contains 2 color slides.
Contains 87 color slides and 5 black and white slides.
Contains 8 black and white slides.
Contains 19 color slides.
Contains 35 black and white slides and 13 color slides.
Contains 15 black and white slides and 19 color slides.
Contains 14 black and white slides.
Contains 5 color slides.
Contains 38 color slides and 1 black and white slide.
Contains 20 black and white slides and 8 color slides.
Contains 8 color slides and 45 black and white slides.
Contains 28 color slides and 2 black and white slides.
Contains 26 color slides.
Contains 21 color slides and 2 black and white slides.
Contains 9 black and white slides and 1 color slide.
Contains 5 color slides.
Contains 33 color slides.
Contains 75 color slides.
Contains 37 color slides.
Contains 11 color slides.
Contains 79 black and white slides and 1 color slide.
Contains 30 black and white slides and 5 color slides.
Contains 46 color slides.
Contains 7 color slides and 8 black and white slides.
Contains 6 black and white slides and 3 color slides.
Contains 58 color slides and 42 black and white slides.
Contains 84 color slides.
Contains 80 color slides.
Contains 34 color slides.
Contains 11 color slides.
Contains 5 color slides.
Contains 11 black and slides.
Contains 154 black and white slides and 34 color slides.
Contains 18 black and white slides and 7 color slides.
Contains 3 color slides and 2 black and white slides.
Contains 15 black and white slides and 5 color slides.
Contains 16 black and white slides and 5 color slides.
Contains 11 color slides and 10 black and white slides.
Contains 11 black and white slides.
Contains 7 color slides and 1 black and white slide.
Contains 14 black and white slides and 13 color slides.