Sociology: Primary Sources & E-Books
Many individual electronic books are available within e-book packages.
Some packages have individual book records in QCAT, but many do not. To limit your QCAT search, choose E-Books from the drop-down menu. For e-books not listed in QCAT search within the following packages.
Click here for a complete list of all the e-book collections in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Primary Source Materials:
Collections of note include:
- Adam Matthew Digital
- Alexander Street Press (History, Drama, Film, Gender Studies)
E-Book Collections
Collections of note include:
- Canadian Electronic Library
- Canadian Publisher Collection (non-fiction and reference titles)
- Canadian Public Policy Collection (nonprofit and public-sector organizations)
- Canadian Health Research Collection
- ebrary
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (encyclopedias: many disciplines)
- Emerald
- MyiLibrary
- Springer eBook Collection
Note: The following book collections are freely available on the Web
- Bartleby.com
- Electronic Text Center (U. Virgina) (Humanities texts in 12 languages)
- Google Book Search
- e.g. The Complete Plays of Shakespeare
- Institute of Intergovernmental Relations Check out 'Publications' and 'Working Papers' (Queen's University, School of Policy Studies)
- Internet Archive: Million Book Project (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Online Books Page (All subject fields)
- Project Gutenburg
- e.g. The Complete Plays of Shakespeare
Last Updated: 15 May 2012