About the Archive

The Caltech Archives Oral History Project began in 1978 for the purpose of recording the personal memoirs of the distinguished scientists, teachers and administrators of the Institute. To date, approximately 170 interviews have been completed and most are open to readers in transcript form.

Oral Histories Online, begun in the fall of 2002, brings selected interviews to the public in digital form. Approximately twenty interviews have been chosen from the fields of biology and environmental science. Over time, more interviews will be added to the site. The project is part of the Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA) hosted by the Caltech Library System. All CODA projects are Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant Data Providers.

Funding for the creation of Oral Histories Online is provided in part through the generosity of The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Viewing the Oral Histories Documents

Many of the oral histories contain embedded audio clips. For best results, view the documents with Adobe Acrobat 6.0.

General Copyright Notice

Caltech holds or administers the copyright on all of its oral histories. Permission to cite or quote must be requested in writing from the Caltech Archivist.

Policy Documents: These include the Submission Procedure, Author Permission Form and Archive Policy Document.

Download the Archive

The Oral Histories Online archive is available in its entirety as a single download. You may want a portable copy of this archive to read on long airline flights or to use or share with those in regions with slow internet connectivity. The contents of this download is updated nightly.

Contact Information

Any correspondence concerning this specific archive should be sent to coda AT library.caltech.edu.

About this software

This site is running GNU EPrints / revision: EPrints 2.3.6.99.1-beta (Binah) [Born on 2004-09-20]

GNU EPrints is free software developed by the University of Southampton, England.

For more information see eprints.org and software.eprints.org

Technologies employed and supported:

Powered by: MySQL, Apache Webserver, PERL, mod_perl, XML, DOM, ParaCite, GNU EPrints.

Supports: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, VLit Transclusions, Valid XHTML, Valid CSS.

Part of: The GNU Project.

Credits

Christopher Gutteridge - Designer and coder of EPrints version 2.

Mike Jewell - Pre-release testing. The initial versions of scripts for creating and installing an EPrints v2 package. Some coding assistance.

Harry Mason - Testing. Document to text conversion wrappers. Document icons.

Robert Tansley - Creator of EPrints 1 on which EPrints 2 is based.

Al Riddoch <ajr@ecs.soton.ac.uk> - Assistance in writing the "configure" script for the installer.

Jessie Hey and Pauline Simpson (as part of the TARDIS Project) - Feature suggestions and contributions to the default configuration of version 2.3.

Gui Power - Adapting the online help for version 2.

Developed at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England.