Biomedicine can be narrowly defined as the use of laboratory biology to define, measure, predict and treat disease. While its origins lie in the development of the germ theory of disease in the nineteenth-century, the vast majority of the history of biomedicine has taken place in the second half of the twentieth-century, making it an exemplary field for the use of oral history methods. The scope of the ComBio catalogue was intended to cover all the large online oral history programs sponsored by major Anglo-American biomedical research organizations. As it developed, more smaller collections were added which reflected the research interests of the Max Planck Research Group “Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences,” in particular biological psychiatry. The primary research value of this catalogue is to researchers working on the history of 20th century biomedicine, clinical research and hospital practice in the Anglo-American world.  The collections were selected on a case by case basis in relation to the relevance of a collection for research into the history of biomedical research. Therefore, the majority of the collections focus on research organizations. However, we have also included collections from medical schools and hospital administrations, which relate more to the history of biomedical practice.  While the catalogue includes collections which deal more with biological research than biomedicine, such as the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we did not include collections which were majority non-medical in their scope. However, this was not a hard and fast rule and such decisions were ultimately also related to the exigencies of busy academic schedules. In the main, we did not include collections that were majority non-medical and lacked any relevance to biological research – although they may have related to the history of biomedical research, such as collections in the history of physics and electrical engineering. Finally, we excluded all collections which did not have online transcripts and all collections which did not reply to our requests for permission.  Alfred Freeborn on behalf of the the Commoning Biomedicine Team (2022-2025): Pascal Belouin, Alfred Freeborn, Steffen Hennicke, Henrik Hömann, Elizabeth Hughes, Lara Keuck, Wishyut Pitawanik, Kim Pham, Emma Sevink, Hanna Worliczek, and Michael Winter

Currently under active development, the Storying the Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES) catalogue indexes a wide range of oral history collections that seek to capture our changing knowledge about the material surroundings of humans and other inhabitants of our planet. Our definition of the earth and environmental sciences is intentionally broad. While many of the interviews included in SEES reflect the perspectives of environmental scientists and credentialed experts, we have also sought out the voices of practitioners, policymakers, regulators, and activists. At the same time, we are working to move beyond a focus on English-language sources in order to reflect the truly global range of languages and geographical contexts in which environmental knowledge has been made and communicated. We recognize that institutional constraints, legal concerns, and technical hurdles can sometimes keep us from fully achieving our curatorial ideals. Despite these challenges, we remain committed to building a cross-institutional, multi-lingual, and inclusive catalogue. We acknowledge our dependence on—and express our thanks to—the many institutions and individuals who have labored to preserve these unique records of the history of environmental knowledge. Etienne Benson and Syuan-Ya Syu on behalf of the SEES Team: Etienne Benson, Pirmin Kuß, Silvia Pérez-Criado, Wishyut Pitawanik, Emma Sevink, and Syuan-Ya Syu