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Humanities

ACLS Humanities Ebooks
5000 titles in the humanities
Cambridge Companion
over 700 titles on Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Culture and Religion
excellent writings ABOUT authors, their works, genres
Literary Encyclopedia
"The Literary Encyclopedia is a constantly evolving and updating repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural history. All our articles are solicited by invitation from specialist scholars in higher education institutions all over the world, refereed and approved by subject editors in our Editorial Board. " Try the Advanced Search
Loeb Classical Library
"More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease."
"The mission of the Loeb Classical Library, founded by James Loeb in 1911, has always been to make Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers"
New Oxford Shakespeare
“The New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare’s works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship.”
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Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
AUP Library has the 18th Century Prose and Romantic Prose which include recent scholarly complete editions of Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Jeremy Bentham's writings.

Large Comprehensive Ebook Collections

EBSCO Academic Ebooks
over 160,000 titles
ProQuest Ebook Central
ebrary is now ProQuest Ebook Central
over 150,000 titles

Small Collection of Academic Titles

e-Duke Books
over 2,700 titles
Oxford Handbooks
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Oxford Scholarship Online
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Individual Reference Titles

AP Stylebook
"The AP Stylebook is a writing style guide for journalists. It is published and updated annually to reflect changes in writing style and new guidelines."
Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Staff (Editor)
ISBN: 0226104206
Publication Date: current
A particular style guide for formatting papers, writing citations, bibliography, etc.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World by Saul Cohen (Editor)
ISBN: 0231145543
Publication Date: current
"an encyclopedia of geographical places and features" It includes geographic, population, political, economic data and much more.
MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, 2nd Ed. by Elen C. Carillo
ISBN: 9781603296069
Publication Date: 2022
Offers techniques for assessing the credibility and reliability of online sources of information and understanding types of bias, fake news, disinformation, bots, and algorithms. Gives guidance on how to search the internet effectively, avoid clickbait, and judge one's own biases. Contains readings from outside sources and exercises and student activities.
MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature by Elizabeth Brookbank; Faye Christenberry
ISBN: 9781603294362
Publication Date: 2019-05-30
What makes a good research topic in a literature class? What does your professor mean by "peer-reviewed" sources? What should you do if you can't find enough material? This approachable guide walks students through the process of research in literary studies, providing them with tools for responding successfully to course assignments.
MLA Handbook (9th edition) by The Modern Language; The Modern Language Association of America
ISBN: 9781603293518
Publication Date: 2021-05-30
Teaching and learning MLA style is about to get easier. For nearly seventy years, the Modern Language Association has helped student writers choose trustworthy sources and use them to support their own ideas. Now, the authority on writing and research presents the clearest approach to MLA style yet with the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook.
The Europa World Year Book by Europa Publications (Editor)
ISBN: 1857438884
Publication Date: current
Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
SIPRI Yearbook by Stockholm International Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
ISBN: 9780198821557
Publication Date: current
Security and conflicts - Military spending and armaments- Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament. The SIPRI Yearbook contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements, and a chronology of events during the year in the area of security and arms control.

Publisher Collections

ISTEX Platform - Working on campus only

Brepols ebooks
Brill - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online
Access 240 titles published by Brill between 1961 and 2020.
De Gruyter - Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
"Over 180,000 titles for books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more are available. Great for history, literature, philosophy, religion, fine arts, medicine, technology, etc."
EEBO - Early English Books Online
"Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. "
Early European Books - Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze Collection
Nenci Aldine Collection (770 titles) 1495-1590
Marginalia (64) 16th and 17th century
Incunabula (1,200 volumes), including rare editions of the works of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, and 100 volumes by Girolamo Savoranola.
Sacre rappresentazioni collection (780 editions) 16th and 17th century
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Littérature française et francophone
Portail Calvin
Portail Humanisme et Renaissance
Révolution française - Premier Empire
Royal Society of Chemistry
Springer ebooks
Taylor & Francis

List of Taylor and Francis titles with links

The Geological Society

Reference Collections

Larger Collections

Credo Reference
Hundreds of encyclopedias and dictionaries on a large variety of topics.
Gale Ebooks (Reference)
Over 2700 titles on many topics - art, business, environment, history, literature, politics, social sciences and more.
Oxford Reference Online
Hundreds of encyclopedias, companions, and dictionaries.
Oxford Bibliographies
Subjects:
Cinema and Media Studies
Environmental Science
International Law
Management

Oxford Very Short Introduction This link opens in a new window
Very Short Introductions offer concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects. Expert authors combine facts, analysis, new insights, and enthusiasm to make often challenging topics highly readable to develop your core knowledge.

Research Methods

AM Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Designed as a tool to support students of the humanities and social sciences, Research Methods Primary Sources introduces the key approaches to working with source materials and historical evidence.
Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods supports research at all levels - what methodology to use, quantitative or qualitative. Includes many full-text Sage ebooks on statistics, methodology and more.