The Benefits of Membership
Membership in the Society for the History of Technology connects you to some fifteen hundred like-minded individuals in thirty-five countries, professionals and academics who range across dozens of fields and disciplines.Members receive:
- A print subscription to Technology and Culture, the preeminent journal in the field, which features research, reviews, and criticism spanning the full spectrum of writing on the history of technology
- Electronic access to current and back issues of T&C through Project Muse
- Electronic access to the History of Science, Technology and Medicine online bibliography, maintained by OCLC, which describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. The HSTM bibliography integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Updated quarterly, it covers 1975 to the present.
- The quarterly SHOT Newsletter, with news of the society and the field.
- Discounted registration rates for the SHOT annual meeting, an international conference that brings together the best new scholarship in every field of technological history
- Discount prices on the SHOT/AHA booklet series "Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society, and Culture"
- Special subscription rates on History and Technology and Annals of Science
Plus, your membership supports the broader intellectual and social mission of the society:
- To publish the best international scholarship in the history of technology, in print and online, through Technology and Culture and the new open-access initiative eTC
- To foster interdisciplinary conversation and cooperation among historians of technology and technology professionals, through its annual meeting and other efforts, such as the society's various special interest groups and the Technology and Culture Forum
- To encourage and support new scholarship in the history of technology through an extensive program of grants and awards
- To disseminate news of interest to those interested in the history of technology, through the quarterly newsletter and the online clearinghouse shotnews.net
Individual Memberships
Individual subscription/membership rates: regular $60; student $30; emeritus $40. (Subscribers in Canada and Mexico add $7.20 postage; all other countries add $21.40.)To join SHOT as an individual member or renew your membership on-line, click here.
If you prefer to join or renew by telephone or mail, please contact the Johns Hopkins University Press Journals Division, 410.516.6987 (or toll-free 800.548.1784 within the U.S.), jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu.
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