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ACLS Humanities E-Book

Posted: August 17th, 2007

Queen’s Library now has a subscription to the American Council of Learned Societies’ ACLS Humanities E-Book database. ACLS Humanities E-Book

This digital collection includes over 1500 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching. Imprint dates range from the mid-1900s to the early 2000s.

Subject areas covered include: African, American, Asian, Latin American, European (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern), Middle Eastern, World/Comparative, Byzantine/Mediterranean and  Australasian/Oceanian history, plus history of the Native Peoples of the Americas and of Science and Technology.  A complete list of titles currently in the collection is available at: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/titlelist.html

The project includes both in-print and out-of print books and adds 300 titles a year.  It is a collaboration of the American Council of Learned Societies, various constituent member learned societies of the ACLS, and nearly 80 publishers.

For more information:  Read the vendor’s overview.